Thor would hear a report on the radio regarding the stone passengers from the plane and the statuesque taxi driver found at the corner of 53rd and Madison. Duval took a cab ride to the center of town and thanked the driver by transforming him into stone as well. Duval was the only man that left the plane and the steward was horrified when he saw all the passengers inside had turned into stone.

Duval traveled halfway across the world to seek out Thor and would land at JFK International Airport. The wealth he had accumulated provided very little satisfaction so Duval set his mind to steal Thor's immortality. Mayor Story Arcs The Grey Gargoyle versus Thor Duval discovered that the people he turned into stone would revert back to human form after one hour and would use his new found power to become a great thief. Duval started to test his stone spell in public and transform strangers into stone statues. Duval accidentally touched his face and realized he has become a man of living stone. Duval's left hand turned into stone after he touched his right hand. The chemical felt like liquid fire as it started to transform his hand into stone. A strange foreign substance had affected the mixture and Duval accidentally spilled the potion on his right hand. Paul Duval was a young chemist from France whose experiment went awry after he noticed the solution he was working on turned blue instead of red. He then persuade both Banner and his cousin.Origin Paul Duval becomes a man of living stone. He continued to hound Banner hoping for a cure, but found his attentions distracted by She-Hulk, who he fell for, despite her loathing every fiber of his being. He and Banner worked together on a cure, which Gargoyle selflessly handed over to Betty Ross, wishing to save her life instead of curing his own mutation. Whilst away from Leader, he attempted to cure himself, instead creating a gamma virus that was spreading throughout Detroit.

Hoping to cure himself, he sided with Leader, believing that once he captured Bruce Banner, he would learn why Banner is able to turn back into a normal looking human and why he is constantly deformed.Īlthough he couldn't stand Leader's arrogance, he stayed with him until he was banished from Leader's lab. Once Mother Russia's greatest scientist, his experiments with gamma radiation reduced his physical to an ugly grey dwarf.

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