Name: Colonel McMurdo
First Appearance: Alpha Flight #9 vol.1
A scientist situated at Mt Logan Cosmic Ray Research Station, near the peak of Canada’s tallest mountain. He’s a very pessimistic man and when Walter Langkowski came to the center due to a request from the Ministry of Defense to investigate strange readings. He constantly gave him a hard time. When Walter developed the new adapter for the antennae hoping this will give him answers to the signal, McMurdo quickly replies “I doubt it” and even tells Walter, “Don’t lecture me Langkowski. You may be this country’s top radiation expert, but ‘round here you’re just another warm body until you prove you worth”. Once the readings were coming in they discovered that the signal cuts right across the radiation spectrum—that even looked like a biological rhythmn much like a brainwave pattern. Which McMurdo quickly remarks, “that’s a normal 21 centimeter signal. Simple background noise” He doesn’t like Walter and any chance he gets he tries to put him down. Unfortunately it wasn’t background noise, they in fact teleported the Super Skrull to the base which took the form of the Thing to protect himself. Later he was inside the Research Center when the Super Skrull blew it up and apparently he went up like a bonfire from the attack.