Hammerhead
Powers & Abilities:Hammerhead has no superhuman abilities. He is an above-average combatant with slightly above-average strength. Equipment & Weapons:Hammerhead's unusual cranium comes from an implanted steel alloy skull. He uses this as a weapon by lowering his head and charging his opponents. Hammerhead commonly uses a variety of Tommy-guns, machine guns, and other assorted heavy weaponry. Origin:The mobster known as Hammerhead was a thug with the criminal organization known as the Maggia. After a brutal beating, he was found and fixed up by a Dr. Jonas Harrow. Due to the extent of his injuries, Dr. Harrow replaced his skull with a steel alloy skull. When he recovered, Hammerhead had lost any memory of who he was, and adopted the identity of "Hammerhead" after a 1920's movie poster. His new criminal identity favors 1920 gangster stereotypes including clothes, weapons, and speech. Since then, he's fought Spider-Man on several occasions all in attempts to become New York's #1 crimelord. Appearances:Hammerhead, out for revenge against Doctor Octopus is manipulated into a confrontation with Octopus by the notorious Jackal. The story starts in Amazing Spider-Man #130. Interrupting the wedding between Dr. Octopus and Aunt May in Amazing Spider-Man #131, Hammerhead pursues the pair to an isolated island containing an active "nuclear breeder". Battling it out with Dr. Octopus causes a chain reaction and Hammerhead is apparently vaporized in the resulting blast. Amazing Spider-Man #157 begins a three-part storyline where Hammerhead, thought dead in an atomic explosion, reveals that he was simply knocked "out of phase" with our world. Appearing like a ghost, his intangible form stalks Doctor Octopus and vows revenge on Octopus for causing his death. In part two (continuing in Amazing Spider-Man #158), Hammerhead tricks both Doctor Octopus and Spider-Man to returning him to a physical form by bathing his ghost with atomic energy. Concluding a three-part storyline, Amazing Spider-Man #159 Hammerhead escapes capture by kidnapping Aunt May. Unable to withstand an assault by the temporarily partnered Octopus and Spider-Man, he flees in an escape helicopter. However, his copter is crippled by Octopus and crashes with an explosion into the Hudson River leaving Hammerhead apparently dead again. |
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