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Wilbur Day (Earth-616)

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former partner of Blastaar and the Masked Marauder; formerly Emissaries of Evil

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Former Scientist, former professional criminal

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Wilbur Day engineered a pair of extremely long, telescopic metal legs, which allowed him to tower high over the ground.

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The character did not age well, as his powers were more a curiosity than a real threat. He was once saved by the Masked Marauder and teamed up with him to kidnap the Nelson and Murdock law firm employees. After fighting Spider-Man he went to fire a ray gun as he was standing in water and shorted out his electrical systems leaving him unconscious and ready to be picked up by the police.[1] However he was rescued by the super-villain Electro and joined his Emissaries of Evil. Their plan was as a team to defeat Daredevil but in turn were defeated themselves.[2]
As of 2005, Stilt-Man was seen as a mere footnote and as an example of the arguably weird rogues' gallery Daredevil had in his early, pre-Frank Miller days — indeed, during Miller's Daredevil run, issue # 186, Stilt-Man was portrayed as a miserable loser; he was cold-cocked and had the armor stolen by Turk, a small-time crook and an even greater loser than Day, who took on the Stilt-Man identity, contacted the Kingpin and offered to become his new assassin, only to be refused. ("It does not matter what armor or weapons you may have acquired, Turk. You are an idiot. I do not employ idiots").

Enraged by Turk's audacity, Day contacted Daredevil and informed him of a weakness in the armor. Thanks to Day's information, Daredevil easily disabled the auto-gyroscopes necessary for the armor to keep its balance and brought Turk down. Day later modified the armor to prevent Daredevil for using this newfound knowledge against him. Stilt-Man continued to make sporadic appearances in various Marvel comics, wherein he continued his criminal career and fought several superheroes, but without much success.

During Brian Michael Bendis' acclaimed run on Daredevil, Daredevil's secret identity of Matt Murdock was exposed by a local newspaper, with Murdock denying the allegations. On hearing of this news, Wilbur visited the law offices of Nelson and Murdoch, announcing he was sick of the whole ordeal and that he was retiring as Stilt-Man. He left his armor in a suitcase on Murdock's desk, and was forcibly removed when he began yelling his paranoid conclusion that Murdock was the real Kingpin. Murdock then jokingly asked his law partner, Foggy Nelson, if he'd like to be the next Stilt-Man, an offer he quickly declined.

Day did not stay in retirement for long, however, as he was next seen being dispatched by Ms. Marvel. During Civil War he was killed by the Punisher. After his death many super-villains held a wake for him at a Bar with No Name where it was revealed he had married Princess Python[3]

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His armored suit's telescoping legs could extend up to 290 feet; silicon coating resisted adhesives such as Spider-Man's webbing; Augmented strength.
Strength level: Strength level unknown, although the impact of both legs drove She-Hulk deep enough into the ground that she ended up in the roof of a subway.

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armored, hydrolic stilt suit. If the lower portion of the legs were damaged, they could be detached. However, doing so decreased the height they could reach, due to the loss of the telescopic segments in that section.

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  1. ↑ Daredevil # 27, 1967
  2. ↑ Daredevil Annual 1 # 1, 1967
  3. ↑ Punisher War Journal Volume 2 # 4 , 2006
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