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Arsenal
 
Arsenal
 
Personal Info:
 
Real Name: Nimrod Strange
Also Known As: Commander Strange, "One-Man Army"
Place Of Birth: Unknown
First Appearance: Moon Knight Vol.1 #17 (1982) Bronze Age Villain
Known Associates: Assigi, Jeesala, Sheena, Sonia, Yumi
Group Affiliation: Leader of the Third World Army
Base Of Operations: Unidentified island
Grudges: Moon Knight
Creators: Doug Moench, Bill Sienkiewicz and Steve Mitchell
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Powers:
 
Though possessing no superhuman powers, Arsenal is highly skilled in armed and unarmed combat. He is also an amazing leader of men, inspiring fanaticism.
Weapons: Arsenal has a bandolier of knives, he uses with skill taught him by Kareesh-Bek; a sawed-off or otherwise short shotgun, which he uses via proficiency for firearms trained by Jou-Jouba; twin forearm mounted guns, adopted from the Master Sniper's weapons, with which he was a reasonably skilled marksman and could fire repeatedly in rapid succession; nunchucks he gained from and was trained with from Chu-Lin; a garrotte picked up from Sumaro; and numerous concussion grenades on a belt.
 
Origins:
 
Nimrod Strange was a former member of Black September, the Red Army, Black Hand and numerous other terrorist groups before taking command of the Third World Slayers, also known as the Third World Army. He was always surrounded by three beautiful female bodyguards. His way of symbolizing the coalition of the three major factions in his Third World Slayers. He came to the attention of Moon Knight when he sent his top assassin, Master Sniper, to kill his long time friend Benjamin Abramon.
 
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Arsenal at Marvel Universe: The Appendix
Arsenal at Comic Vine