Spencer Smythe (Earth-616)

Spencer Smythe

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Real Name

Spencer Smythe

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Origin

Universe

Earth-616

Created by

Stan Lee, Steve Ditko

First appearance

Appearance of Death

Amazing Spider-Man #25
(June, 1965)

Amazing Spider-Man #192
(May, 1979)

1 HistoryEdit
2 LinksEdit
- 2.1 Discover and Discuss
- 2.2 Footnotes

HistoryEdit

Spencer Smythe was an inventor who built the original Spider-Slayer and managed to convince J. Jonah Jameson to use it in his campaign against Spider-Man^[1]. He also worked with Mark Raxton on creating a liquid metallic alloy for the Spider-Slayers, which eventually turned Raxton into the Molten Man^[2]. He next constructed the Spider-Slayer Mark II.

As he was dying of radioactive poisoning, he wanted to take revenge on J. Jonah Jameson and kidnapped his son John and controlled him to attack the senior Jameson. After this failed and John disappeared, Smythe shackled Jameson and Spider-Man together to a Bomb. He set the timer to go off after 24 hours and wanted to see them die but ultimately died before this happened. Spider-Man was able to freeze the locking mechanism allowing the shackle to come loose, which he quickly discarded exploding within seconds.

When Jameson became Mayor of New York in 2009, he managed to legally acquired Spencer's devices to augment his Spider Slayer squad to capture Spider-Man, including his spider tracer. However, his squad had a change of heart after Spider-Man told them to surround a nuclear bomb set by the Chameleon and crushed the tracer.