Voice (comics)

Voice
Data-Panel picture from Avengers Assemble One-Shot July 2010. Art by Gus Vasquez and Don Heck
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Tales to Astonish #42 (April 1963)
Created by	Stan Lee Larry Lieber Don Heck
In-story information
Alter ego	Jason Lorne Cragg
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	Skeleton Crew People's Defense Force
Partnerships	Quicksilver Scarlet Beetle Controller Red Skull
Notable aliases	The Man with the Voice of Doom, The Voice of Doom, The Voice of Truth
Abilities	His voice can make people who hear him believe that he's speaking the truth.

Voice is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Jason Cragg is not to be confused with David Angar, alias Angar the Screamer, who once used the alias of the Voice.

Voice first appeared in Tales to Astonish #42 and was created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Don Heck.

Jason Lorne Cragg was born in Gary, Indiana. He was an unspectacular radio announcer from the Midwest until "ionizing atoms" activated his latent mutation after they escaped from a nearby atomic experimental laboratory and went through his microphone. Jason's voice changed to an unnatural tone that caused anyone who heard him to follow his commands. Thus, he became "The Man with the Voice of Doom." He began to get rich with the profits he earns, working as a public orator. He then uses his powers on the people to cause them to fight Ant-Man upon arriving in New York. At a soap box derby, Jason used his powers to make the people think that Ant-Man was a villain. Hank shrunk himself to evade being controlled by Jason Cragg. To evade being found by people with metal detectors, he ditched his helmet and size-changing canisters making him vulnerable when Jason told him to jump off the pier. When it was said that he drowned, one of Hank's loyal ants saved him. After donning a duplicate costume, Ant-Man confronted Jason at a TV studio where he was going to broadcast that Ant-Man was a villain until Ant-Man arrived and used a gun loaded with microbes that caused Laryngitis resulting in Jason's voice becoming hoarse. His control over the people was severed and he was almost run over by an angry mob.

Jason later became a bum on the street until Madame X found him and told him that her organization can help him. Hungarian surgeons performed micro-operations on his tongue and vocal cords. They also built him a rig that will amplify his voice with digital perception. He joined the People's Defense Force as a Soviet agent and worked with some of Hank Pym's old enemies as well as Quicksilver (who was manipulated by Maximus to be an enemy of the Avengers) and used his powers to stop the West Coast Avengers and used them to hunt down Hank Pym and was stopped by his "long believed to be dead" wife Maria Trovaya.