Robert Paaswell

Robert Paaswell is a human from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

You can tell he's a professor and not a lumberjack because of the pipe.

Robert Paaswell is a paleontology professor teaching at the Pacific Northwest University in Oregon. He is fond of taking his students out on fieldwork in the nearby woods, having done so for a decade.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Robert Paaswell was out on a trip with freshman Rachel Becker and graduate assistant Marty Cooper when Rachel found what appeared to be fresh dinosaur footprints. Paaswell deflated Rachel's excitement when he pointed out the straight, even edges of the footprints; no living creature has such footprints. The gigantic footprints were, therefore, a hoax.

The three were about to take their leave when they spotted a pterodactyl flying in the sky. The professor decided it merited staying overnight and the three set up camp. Rachel left on her own during the night, and Paaswell and Marty went to find her in the morning. Once the two found Rachel, all she had to say about her experience was that there was something "much, much more" than dinosaurs in the woods. King of the Hill!

Notes

• Robert Paaswell is named for Dr Robert Paaswell, who taught a Civil Engineering class at the State University of New York, which Bob Budiansky attended.