Spider-Man has one of the most varied and wonderful rogues galleries in all of comic book history. Peter Parker regularly goes toe-to-toe with heavy-hitters like Green Goblin, Venom, and the Kingpin. But he also has a host of unimpressive weirdos, including the Gibbon and the Kangaroo. For the most part, they all stay in their place. Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus will always be the biggest threats, especially as Venom has become a hero and the Kingpin fights Daredevil, the rest of the Sinister Six, including Electro and Mysterio, can have an arc here and there, and then everyone else fights for the scraps.
But a new promo for the MGM+ series Spider-Noir suggests that the hierarchy of power among Spider-Man villains has changed. It’s not so much that D-lister Silvermane gets to be the show’s big bad, nor the muscle he sends to fight Nicolas Cage‘s hardboiled take on Spider-Man. It’s that Tombstone gets highlighted, just months before he’s slated to be a major problem for Tom Holland‘s Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Loosely adapted from the comic book series Spider-Man: Noir by David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico, and Marko Djurdjević, and spinning out of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Noir stars Cage as Ben Reilly, a 1930s private investigator who can do whatever a spider can. As this latest promo shows us, Ben will be going up against the gangster Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson), who relies on a trio of toughs to do his dirty work, including Sandman (Jack Huston), Megawatt (Andrew Lewis Caldwell), and Tombstone (Abraham Popoola).
Tombstone, of course, isn’t a new thorn in Spidey’s side. First introduced in Web of Spider-Man #36 (1988), by Gerry Conway and Alex Saviuk, he’s been a regular player in stories about the New York underworld. Born Lonnie Lincoln, he grew up with Daily Bugle editor Robbie Robertson and was constantly teased for being a Black child with albinism. The bullying led Lonnie to a life of crime and to embrace his appearance. Taking the name Tombstone, he filed his teeth to sharp ends and built an imposing physique.
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