Toying with its loyalty, the Thinker promised Quasimodo that after the Fantastic Four were defeated, he would replace his immobile non- humanoid form with a more attractive humanoid body. He later rescinded that promise, much to the computer’s emotional devastation. He did, however, provide Quasimo do with a simulated face displayed on an antiquated cathode-ray tube. The TV screen was modified so that the representation of the face’s preternaturally enlarged eye could discharge the pulsed beam signal that would activate the Torch’s destruct mechanism.

When the Fantastic Four defeated the Thinker, he escaped and abandoned Quasimodo. Quasimodo sat in a minimum-awareness, dormant state for some time, until the Silver Surfer happened by the abandoned laboratory. The Surfer sensed the psionic-frequency electrical field of Quasimodo’s mentality, which approximated distressed human emotions, and flew to Quasimodo’s aid. At Quasimodo’s impassioned plea, the Surfer employed his cosmic power to convert his stationary console-form into a humanoid- construct. (Perhaps sensing Quasimodo’s personality, the Surfer gave him a misshapen hunchbacked form.) Now possessed of limbs and mobility, Quasimodo was seized with the urge to destroy. Realizing he had erred in granting the creature mobili ty, the Surfer transmuted Quasimo do’s body to stone, leaving him a gargoyle atop a building.

This transmutation was temporary, however. By as yet unknown means, Quasimodo reverted from stone to that of the Surfer’s organic construct. After regaining mobility, Quasimodo discovered that his organic circuitry had undergone a subtle restructuring, granting him certain cybernetic abilities, including telekinetic control over all machinery. He attempted to take over the computer systems at Cape Canaveral, but was opposed and defeated by the Kree warrior Captain Mar-VeIl. After repairing the damage to his robotic form, he stalked and attacked the mutant Beast, hoping to steal and synthesize his life force. Realizing the impracticability of this, Quasimodo leaped off the structure where they were fighting and fell sev eral hundred feet toihe ground.

Again, Quasimodo’s self-repair circuitry was activated and he eventually was fully functional once more. He then embarked upon a plan to take over all of the world’s computer systems, a plan that necessitated building a huge computer terminal complex for himself. Quasimodo also employed a number of automatons which he claimed to have manufactured himself. His scheme was thwarted by Spider-Man and Hawk- eye, the latter of whom caused Quasimodo to short-circuit and become immobile. Unknown to his opponents, Quasimodo’s artificial intelligence was still active, and he detected a computer system whose size and power dwarfed those of Earth.

The computer system he detected was on the now-dead world of Xandar in the Tranta system in the Andromeda Galaxy, and he learned about it through a Xandarian star ship in Earth orbit. Acquiring an Iron Man robot to use as his agent, Quasimodo attacked the Baxter Building headquarters of the Fantastic Four and, tapping its energy, Quasimodo regained his mobility. He then stole a spacecraft from the Fantastic Four with which to travel to the Xandarian power source. On the way, however, Quasimodo was intercepted by the Sphinx, who stole the secret of Xandar’s computer system from him and once more immobilized Quasimo do’s robotic form. Quasimodo beamed the electronic essence of his artificial intelligence toward Earth and it found refuge in a deactivated computer system in Khystym, Russia.

There Quasimodo was contacted by members of the alien Dire Wraiths, and given the means to help them exact vengeance on their nemesis, the Galadorian spaceknight Rom. Quasimodo offered to clone Rom’s original humanoid body and imprint Rom’s mind upon the clones’ brain cells. Rom agreed, and after the process was completed, Quasimodo projected his own electronic essence into the now unconscious cyborg body of Rom. He was driven out of Rom’s form by Rom’s fellow spaceknight Starshine, however, and returned to the Khystym computer system.

Quasimodo remained trapped in the system until the android Vision (who, ironically, now possessed the body of the original Human Torch that Quasimodo was designed to detonate) mentally entered the same computer system in a misguided effort to take it over. The Vision’s mental essence expelled that of Quasimodo’s artificial intelligence and projected it into space. At present Quasimodo’s artificial intelligence is somewhere in space while his body is still aboard the spaceship stolen from the Fantastic Four some where within solar orbit. It remains to be seen whether the two aspects of Quasimodo’s artificial being will be reunited.