Zeitgeist first appeared in X-Force #116. His super power: he can vomit acid.
Peter Parker works as a photographer for the Daily Bugle which first appeared in Fantastic Four #2 (January 1962), and its offices in Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963).
Moira MacTaggert's mutant research lab is located on Muir Island off the northwest coast of Scotland. She originally created the facility to help her son, Kevin (a.k.a. Proteus), an extremely disturbed mutant.
Michael Jackson wanted so badly to play Spider-Man in a movie that he attempted to buy Marvel Comics just to make it happen.
Patrick "Eel" O'Brian is the secret identity of Plastic Man. One of Quality Comics' signature characters during the Golden Age of Comic Books, Plastic Man can stretch his body into any imaginable shape. His adventures were known for their quirky, offbeat humor. When Quality Comics went out of business in 1956, DC Comics acquired many of its characters, including Plastic Man who became a part of the mainstream DC Universe.
Although precursors can be traced back as far as 1828, most comics historians agree that the first real graphic novel was Will Eisner's A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories published in 1978. The book is made up of four stand-alone stories that revolve around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City.
Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff), frequent nemesis of Spider-Man, is the half-brother of Dmitri Smerdyakov, better known as the Chameleon. Kraven dies in the acclaimed 1987 storyline by J. M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck, and Bob McLeod, "Kraven's Last Hunt".
A mutant, Kitty Pryde possesses a "phasing" ability that allows her to walk through walls.
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