Bombu

History: Landing his spaceship ages ago in the Amazon jungle, the immortal Bombu gathered information for an invasion of Earth. Bombu took over a native village and became the witch doctor. Two men from the outside world crashed their plane in the jungle and were captured by the tribesmen, who brought them before Bombu. Bombu demonstrated his magical powers, and later conjured a storm; Bombu was struck dead by a lightning bolt from his own storm. The two men then discovered that the “tribal mask” Bombu wore was actually his real face.

It was later revealed that Bombu apparently survived the lightning bolt, then suffered the humiliation of being pelted with garbage by the natives, so he left Earth. He was then ordered by his commander to return and bluff mankind with world-wide annihilation with his “weaponry” (the “wallah wallah bing bang”). Bombu went to a city and made his threats, but was tasered by police, who locked Bombu in a jail cell on criminal charges. Bombu used his one phone call to contact his commander and report on his “progress”.

Height: 5 ft. 6 in.
Demonstrated Powers: Bombu demonstrated several “magical” abilities including shrinking an elephant (see comment), levitating trees, creating a skyscraper out of thin air, and summoning a thunderstorm. It is unknown if these abilities were “true magic” or actually some form of psionic mind-over-matter manipulation.

Comment: No explanation was given for an elephant being in the jungles of South America; possibly Bombu teleported it from its native land.

Comment: Bombu's appearance in the story bears no resemblence to his appearance on the cover shot.

A fine tale, with an odd response to the villain, till the truth is reveled. I vote for Psionic power or something like it. In the opening Bombu says he is more powerful than the sun. There should be a rundown somewhere on the suns energy output. I am thinking of energies in the area of two additional zeros in the calculation, at most. The end came because he got so drunk with power he forgot that even if his power is unmatchable, his body is still vaunrable, and forgot to throw up a shield.

A powerful alien who can shrink things, teleport whole buildings and cause storms to form, and yet his plan to rule the world had him living in a third world jungle for years/decades?

Comment on Bombu

* Name and email address are required. Don't worry about spam — your email address will not be shared with anyone. Only your name and Web site address will appear with your message.

Comment on Bombu