| BEETLE Strange Tales Vol.1 #123 (1964) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'Growing tired of his mechanic job Abe Jenkins created a suit of armour and became the criminal Beetle, to gain wealth and fame.' |
| Abner Jenkins was a master mechanic at an airplane-parts factory. He became bored with his job and tried to interest the company in a set of plans for some hydraulic technology he created. Unfortunately he was rebuffed and he used his plans to build his first set of Beetle armour, he turned to crime in the hopes of winning fame, wealth and thrills that were denied to him at work. |
| CARNAGE Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #360 (1992) Modern Age Villain | |
| 'Carnage is the offspring of the Venom symbiote, It bonded with serial killer, Cletus Kasady, creating one of Spider-Man's most lethal adversaries.' |
| DOCTOR OCTOPUS I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #3 (1963) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'A former nuclear physicist changed forever when one of his experiments went horribly wrong. His plans are frequently foiled by Spider-Man.' |
| Imprisoned for multiple murders, Cletus Kasady was sharing a cell with Eddie Brock, parasitical Venom’s host, when the symbiote arrived to attempt a jailbreak. Venom left behind it’s spawn, which bonded with Kasady resulting in a new symbiote, the murderous monster now known as Carnage. |
| The son of an overbearing mother and a bullying father, Otto Octavius grew up a recluse, but became a brilliant atomic researcher. To help manipulate radioactive substances from a safe distance, Otto constructed a chest harness controlling four mechanical, tentacle-like arms, earning him the nickname Doctor Octopus. In a freak lab accident, volatile liquids exploded, bombarding the scientist with radiation. The substances left him capable of mentally controlling the arms, but the accident also caused irreversible brain damage, transforming the respected scientist into a megalomaniacal superhuman criminal. |
| ELECTRO The Defenders Vol.1 #17 (1964) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'An electric human dynamo who is always a major threat to Spider-Man.' |
| Maxwell Dillon had a troubled life, his father walked out on him and his mother, was overly protective. After his mother's death, Dillon got a job as a linesman working for an electric company. One day at work, Dillon was hit by lightning, electrocuted, and nearly killed. However, unlike most people who are struck by lightning, Dillon survived, and gained super-human powers. When he discovered these new powers, he decided to use them for his own personal gain. Dubbing himself Electro he began a criminal career |
| GREEN GOBLIN I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #14 (1964) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'Totally insane and malevolent the Green Goblin is Spider-Man's arch-nemesis.' |
| The Green Goblin is the evil alter ego of the once respectable industrialist Norman Osborn. As a child Norman was subjected to the rage of his father a failed inventor, realising that he couldn’t depend on his father he worked hard and became a successful business man founding Oscorp chemical with his partner Mendel Stromm. Stromm began embezzling funds from the company and Osborn had him arrested. Finding a formula in Stromm’s note’s to increase strength and intelligence, Osborn tried to recreate it, causing a huge explosion in the process. The formula worked, however Osborn was now completely insane! |
| HOBGOBLIN I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #238 (1983) Bronze Age Villain | |
| 'Roderick Kingsley became a worthy heir of the Goblin legacy, creating his own identity as the Hobgoblin.' |
| Roderick Kingsley was a famous and successful fashion designer who used questionable methods that brought him many enemies. He had connections to several criminal associates, including a petty crook named George Hill. Hill stumbled across an old secret base of the original Green Goblin, whilst hiding from Spider-Man in a sewer. Hill passed the location onto Kingsley, who killed him to ensure no one else would know. Kingsley then decided to become a criminal himself and altered the Goblin costume and improved the Goblin equipment to become the Hobgoblin. |
| KRAVEN I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #15 (1964) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'A famous big game hunter who became obsessed with hunting his ultimate trophy, Spider-Man!' |
| Born into an aristocracy that had come to an end, Kraven became one of the world's greatest hunters to fulfil his sense of lost nobility. But he became bored and wanted a different kind of trophy on his wall. The trophy was Spider-Man's head. Kraven gained power by drinking rare and exotic jungle elixirs. These elixirs gave him the strength and speed of a savage beast.. all the better to catch Spider-Man with! |
| KRAVEN III Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #565 (2008) Modern Age Villain | |
| '13 year old daughter of Kraven the Hunter. Now walking in her father steps she hunts for Spider-Man' |
| Ana Tatiana Kravinoff is the daughter of Sasha Kravinoff and Sergei Kravnioff better know as Kraven The Hunter, she was born in 1996. Years after her fathers suicide she began to stalk his archenemy Spider-Man whom she blamed for her father's death |
| LIZARD I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #6 (1963) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'During an experiment, Dr. Curt Connors accidentally turned into a ferocious reptilian monster and became one of Spider-Man’s deadliest foes.' |
| When Dr. Curt Connors was an Army surgeon, his wounded arm had to be amputated. Back in civilian life, he researched the ability of some reptiles to regenerate missing limbs and created a serum to grow his arm back. It worked, but transformed him into a savage humanoid lizard. |
| MISTER NEGATIVE Free Comic Book Day Vol 2007 Spider-Man (2007) Modern Age Villain | |
| 'A balance of darkness and light, Mister Negative is the leader of a criminal empire, while Martin Li is a billionaire philanthropist.' |
| MYSERIO Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #13 (1964) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'Mysterio is the undisputed master of illusion, and one of Spider-Man’s most formidable foe’s.' |
| The man who would later become known as both Mr. Negative and Martin Li was a cruel human trafficker. While conducting a trafficking run, the boat ran aground, and knowing he could not afford to be caught, he stole the papers of Martin Li and swam to shore. Returning to his associates, he discovered the Maggia had murdered them and he was forced to undergo human experimentation with a new drug. He escaped and developed powers becoming both Mr. Negative and Martin Li, putting his life into a balance of darkness and light. As Mr. Negative, he forged his own criminal empire. As Martin Li, he became a billionaire philanthropist |
| RHINO I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #41 (1966) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'Brawn over brains, the Rhino is one of Spider-Man’s deadliest adversary’s.' |
| Quentin Beck was an expert in designing special effects devices and stage illusions, as well as a master hypnotist and magician, and an amateur chemist. He also possessed a wealth of knowledge in hand-to-hand combat techniques that he learned as a stuntman. Unfortunately, all these things did little to help his career in the film industry. A joking suggestion by a friend gave him the idea of using his technical knowledge to kill Spider-Man and take his place as a popular crime fighter. It was that day Mysterio was born. |
| Aleksei Sytsevich was a poor immigrant from Russia, trying to find work to support his family. With little education the only paying jobs he could get were using his impressive strength as an enforcer for various criminal gangs. Contacted by professional spies, he was offered a vast sum of money for participating in an incredible experiment. Subjected to intensive chemical and radioactive treatment, which bonded a super-strong polymer to his skin, he was given the code name "Rhino," and was set to work as a super-assassin. |
| SCORPION Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #20 (1964) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'Mac Gargan was a private investigator that was turned into the Scorpion with financial help from J.Jonah Jameson, in order to crush Spider-Man.' |
| MacDonald “Mac” Gargan was a down and out private detective. His cheap rates attracted J. Jonah Jameson who wanted to find out how Peter Parker managed to take great photo’s of Spider-Man. Jameson hired Gargan to shadow Parker, warned by his spider-sense, however Peter easily avoided his stalker. Jameson then paid Gargan to undergo a procedure in order to defeat Spider-Man. Dr. Farley Stillwell designed a procedure that could endow his human subjects with the powers of a particular animal. Jameson chose Mac to gain the proportionate abilities of a scorpion and outfitted him with a powerful exoskeleton with a cybernetic stinger. |
| SANDMAN Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #4 (1963) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'A career criminal transformed into living sand and a perennial foe of Spider-Man!' |
| Born William Baker in one of the rougher areas of New York, he had a bad start in life. His father abandoned him and his mother when he was three years old, and he grew up in poverty. He quickly learned to steal and cheat. Kicked out of school for taking money to throw a football game, he found work as a criminal. After an arrest and a jailbreak, he headed south. On a beach near a military testing site in Georgia he was knocked unconscious, when a nuclear reactor’s steam system exploded. On awakening he discovered his body now had the properties of sand, and embarked on a major criminal career as the Sandman. |
| VENOM I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #299 (1988) Modern Age Villain | |
| 'Driven by an intense hatred of Spider-Man, Venom is one of the wall crawler's deadliest foes.' |
| While Spider-Man was on the Beyonder’s Battleworld, he acquired a black costume, which turned out to be an alien being that bonded itself to him. Spider-Man rejected this alien symbiote, which then bonded with an ex-Daily Globe columnist Eddie Brock. He had wrecked his career by identifying the wrong man as a murderer, an error revealed by Spider-Man. As Venom Brock became one of Spider-Man’s deadliest enemies with an intense hatred for the wall crawler. |
| VULTURE I Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #2 (1963) Silver Age Villain | |
| 'Swindled by his business partner, Adrian Toomes set out for revenge, in the process he became one of Spider-Man’s arch enemies.' |
| Adrian Toomes was a former electronics engineer who was once the business partner of a man named Gregory Bestman. Bestman handled the finances while Toomes, invented. One day, after creating a flight harness, Toomes rushed into Bestman's office to share the happy news. However, Bestman was not there, and Toomes discovered that Bestman had secretly been embezzling funds. Toomes had no legal recourse and enraged, wrecked the business, discovering that the harness also granted him superhuman strength. He then decided to turn to crime as the Vulture. |