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Publication history

Troll first appeared in ''Image Zero'' #0 (October 1993). He then appeared in the '' Youngblood'' comics series (''Youngblood'' #6 (June 1994)) as a member of the superhero team.

Fictional character biography

Troll was born a member of his race of the same name. Though he appears with grey hair and the rest of his body hairless, his true appearance is, in fact, a short-haired blue creature. Being a troll, he is short in stature. Not much information about his past has been revealed, although he once worked for the U.S. government during

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. Prior to that, he came into contact with a mystical book which tells of things to come and allows the user to rewrite their own history. He lost the book in a card game and when he attempted to reclaim it, he was trapped in ice for hundreds of years. In the 1990s, he came to work for the government-sponsored superhero team Youngblood. Troll is featured in the November 2009 Image crossover ''

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