Man-Killer

Marvel Team-Up #8

by Jim Mooney, 1973

Katrina Luisa Van Horn was an Olympic skier. During a race with a chauvinist male skier named Lubbard, the two crashed and fell off the mountain. The fall left Lubbard dead and Katrina scarred and crippled. A wealthy militant feminist group found Katrina and supplied her with retraining and a powered exo-skeleton giving her both super-strength and a mission.

While assassinating an anti-women lib's politician in Chicago, Man-Killer ran into and over-powered The Cat. The Cat tracked Man-Killer to Chicago and enlisted Spider-Man's help in tracking down the Man-Killer before she killed again.

Spider-Man and The Cat interrupted Man-Killer while she was attacking Manhattan's Harlem Power Plant. Spider-Man and The Cat subdued Man-Killer's henchmen, but Man-Killer escaped with the prototype of an experimental generator. Later when confronting Man-Killer, The Cat reveals that Man-Killer's secret financers is none other than A.I.M. - a criminal organization run by men. Faced with the knowledge that she'd been working for men all along, Man-Killer surrendered.