Religion: not determined yet
Name: Sparky
Classification:
villain
Publisher(s): 
First Appearance: Captain America (vol. 1) #164 (Aug. 1973): "Queen of the Werewolves!"
Creators: Steve Englehart, Alan Weiss, John Romita
Number of Appearances: 1
Enemy of: Captain America, Falcon
Worked for: Nightshade
Gender: male
Note: Dr. Nightshade's favorite artificially created werewolf
The werewolf known as "Sparky" was originally a regular human being. The villainous Dr. Nightshade experimented with a serum that turned people into werewolves who would act as her slaves. Her favorite werewolf she renamed "Sparky."
Sparky was quite a bit shorter than most of the other werewolves. It is likely that he had been very short as a regular human being. Sparky was even shorter than Deadly Nightshade herself, in whose company he was frequently seen.
Nightshade first refers to this diminutive werewolf as "Sparky" in panel 4 on page 10 in Captain America (vol. 1) #164: "Come along, Sparky. Let the big boys play by themselves.
Nightshade refers to this werewolf companion as "Sparky" again in panel 4 on page 12: "Sparky-- It's all going wrong!" The Falcon-Wolf was our ace-in-the-hole! He's GOT to stop Cap!"
Then again on page 15, Sparky is trying to get Nightshade's attention to point out that SHIELD troops are closing in on their location. Nighshade says: "What, Spary?"
Sparky, who had limited intellectual and verbal ability like the other artificial werewolves says: "Yuh! YUH!"
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Suggested links for further research about this character:
- http://www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=3737
- http://www.comiccollectorlive.com/LiveData/Issue.aspx?id=40c450a1-773d-45b2-8cab-c0ffd697ef85
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Captain_America_Vol_1_164
- http://www.captainamericalibrary.com/superhero-library/captain-america/captain-america-comic-details.aspx?id=CA1&issue=164
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Captain_America_Vol_1_190