
īehind the scenes, the Grim Reaper later had Wonder Man resurrected as a zombie by the Black Talon to attack the Avengers. He battled the Avengers again and was defeated.

He planned to transfer the Vision's mind to Wonder Man's body, thus "resurrecting" his brother. The Grim Reaper later allied with the Space Phantom and HYDRA. He released 'Vision' by breaking the hourglass, meaning the Avengers were freed and defeated the Lethal Legion. The Lethal Legion was defeated when Grim Reaper found himself unable to strike down Vision, having discovered that the syntheizoid possessed his brother's brainwave patterns. He captured nearly all of them, placing them in an hourglass filled with a deadly gas, and sent Power Man after the Vision who defeated Power Man by disguising himself as Power Man and Power Man as himself. He allowed Black Panther to escape so that the Avengers could be contacted so they would be lured to the Lethal Legion members' location, before capturing Black Panther again. He first sent the Man-Ape against them, who captured Black Panther. In his next appearance, the Grim Reaper confronted the Avengers with his original Lethal Legion composed of the Living Laser, Power Man, the Man-Ape and the Swordsman.
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Taking the "Grim Reaper" name, he became a professional criminal and defeated Hawkeye, Goliath and the Wasp, placing the three Avengers in comas, but was beaten by the Black Panther's surprise appearance. Through his Maggia contacts, he contacted the Tinkerer to provide him with his scythe weapon, which was further enhanced by Ultron with coma-inducing abilities. Learning of his brother's death, Eric was inflamed with guilt and anger. Simon was freed from jail by Baron Heinrich Zemo, induced by an offer of revenge on Iron Man and the Avengers to which Eric's brother was transformed into Wonder Man. Simon embezzled money from the company to invest with Eric, but Simon was caught and jailed. When Williams Innovations began to fail, partly due to competition with Stark Industries, the desperate Simon turned to Eric's mob ties for help. Eric eventually became a gambler, joined the Maggia and moved to Las Vegas, while Simon took over the family business, Williams Innovations.

Eric also became more rebellious, and tried to get Simon to join in his petty thefts. As they grew older, Simon grew studious while Eric was an athlete. Simon felt guilty for not stopping Eric, and resolved to be responsible for Eric from there on. One day Eric was playing with chemicals in the garage, and caused a fire which burned down their house. At the same time, their mother was loving and attentive to Simon, making Eric bitter and jealous.

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His father even preferred to watch TV lazily, while Eric was torturing the family cat. Eric's father was charged with disciplining him, but was abusive and uncaring.

His mother Martha would tell him that he was "born bad", while heaping affection on Simon. 3, #1.Įric Williams was born in Paterson, New Jersey and Simon Williams's brother. He has been killed many times, depicted in Web of Spider-Man #46, Dark Reign: Lethal Legion #2, Chaos War: Dead Avengers #3, Uncanny Avengers #5 and #21, and Vision Vol. The Grim Reaper first appeared in The Avengers #52 May (1968), by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. Grim Reaper ( Eric Williams) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Wields magically sharp scythe replaced with right hand that can drain energy and project energy blasts Wielded techno-scythe that could spin at rapid speed, fire electromagnetic power blasts and anesthetic gas pellets, dispense electric stun shocks on touch, and induce deep comas and revive victims from them as wellĪbility to absorb human life-forces via his scythe
