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The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #1 (May 1991):
“Book I: Punishment and Crime”
by Danny Fingeroth, Al Milgrom, Kerry Gammill, Mike Machlan

The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #1

Title: “Book I: Punishment and Crime”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1991

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Danny Fingeroth
Art by: Al Milgrom, Kerry Gammill, Mike Machlan


13 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
MACH-IV Beetle (Abner Jenkins) villain hero
  black; Initiative...  Marvel 152
Speed Demon Speed Demon (James Saunders) villain
  Hood's Army; Sinister Syndicate...  Marvel 86
Hydro-Man Hydro-Man (Morrie Bench) villain
  Sinister Syndicate; Sinister Twelve Marvel 84
Rhino Rhino (Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich) villain
  Doom's Brigade; Emissaries of Evil (Egghead)...  Marvel 305
Boomerang Boomerang (Fred Myers) villain
  Doom's Brigade; Initiative: Heavy Hitters... 
[played professional baseball]
Marvel 130
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker) hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 10,664
The Kingpin The Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) villain
CBR Scale: U Catholic (lapsed)
HYDRA Marvel 619
Shocker Shocker (Herman Schultz) villain
  Sinister Six; Sinister Syndicate...  Marvel 157
Hardshell Leila Davis villain
  Redeemers; S.H.I.E.L.D....  Marvel 17
Tinkerer Tinkerer (Phineas T. Mason) villain scientist
  [serves the underworld] Marvel 104
Pembroke villain
  [agent] Marvel 6
The Punisher The Punisher (Frank Castle)
(dream)
hero
CBR Scale: S Catholic (former seminarian)
Code Red; Marvel Knights...  Marvel 1,893
Scourge Scourge (Mr. Collier)
(dream)
villain
  Scourges of the Underworld
[used many disguises in his criminal-killing crusade]
Marvel 13

A maximum-security prison for super-villains, known as "the Tombs," is one of the locations featured in this issue.