Arlok is a fictional character

Fictional character

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, a member of the Eternals

Eternals (comics)

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, a race in an alternate version of the Marvel Comics

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 universe

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Publication history

Arlok appeared in canon stories What If?

What If (comics)

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vol. 1 #26-27 (April, July 1981), and was created by Mary Jo Duffy and Jerry Bingham

Jerry Bingham

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Fictional character biography

Arlok was a Uranian

Uranian (comics)

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 Eternal, and chief engineer, and ally of Uranos

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 millennia ago. Arlok was killed and captured by the Kree

Kree

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 while attempting to return to Earth. Arlok's vivisection by Kree led to creation of the Inhumans

Inhumans

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