Give it up for King Snake!
Give it up for Nagraj: King Snake!
This just might be the most popular superhero in the world, oh really? And what about Superman, Batman, or Spider-Man? I never heard of this guy.
Well tens of millions of people in India have where, at least according to Raj Comics his publishers, something like 100 million comics with him in it have been bought.
I guess it’s sort of like the way even moderate Bollywood hits outdo even the biggest Hollywood ones.
Lot of people in India don’t you know.
Anyway, Nagraj, has been around for a little over 20 years and has what has to be the most convoluted origin stories of any superhero I have heard of.
His powers? Like many superheroes it varies with the people doing him at any given time, so he had gone from a little less than Spider-Man in the early days, to tossing things into orbit like Superman in the Silver-Age.
However some of his more interesting feats involve Him shooting snakes out of his wrists to do things like make nets and whips and such, seems instead of white blood cells he had millions of microscopic snakes!
At present he is on a world wide tour trying to wipe out terrorism.
For a little more about him check out:
http://www.comicvine.com/nagraj/29-62930/