full bodySpellCheck

Real Name: Benjamin "Ben" Pancake

Identity/Class: Human

Occupation: Grammar vigilante

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Typeface

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Literal Lad, Phrase Phantom

Base of Operations: Unknown

First Appearance: Spider-Man's Tangled Web#18 (November, 2002)

Powers/Abilities: Spellcheck has no powers or special abilities, although he's extremely well-versed in grammar and spelling.  The checkmark on his cowl may be sharp enough to use as a weapon.

full bodyHistory: (Spider-Man's Tangled Web#18) - Ben ate his lunch, silently suffering the atrocious grammar of those around him and watching a news report on the Penny-Ante Brigade.  As he left the diner, he stumbled upon an encounter between Typeface and the Penny-Ante Brigade.  After watching Typeface defeat the criminals, he offered his service to the vigilante as a sidekick.  When Typeface refused, he made his way to Tess's Surplus, where he assembled a costume and took on the name of - Spellcheck!  In his new guise, Spellcheck tracked down Typeface and again offered his partnership.  When his interference led to the escape of a member of the Penny-Ante Brigade, however, Typeface turned him down again.  But Spellcheck wasn't about to give up that easily - he confronted Typeface again, this time threatening him with the point of the checkmark on his cowl.  Typeface responded in kind, blasting him with Scrabble-tile bombs. 

(Spider-Man's Tangled Web#18 - BTS) - Typeface took down the remaining member of the Penny-Ante Brigade and left Spellcheck hanging from a signpost, with a note reading "Please lock this lunatic up pronto! Compliments of your friendly neighborhood Typeface".

(Spider-Man's Tangled Web#18) - The hog-tied SpellCheck was discovered by Spider-Man. Ben criticized the grammar of Typeface's note, and advised the confused wall-crawler to change the punctuation in his name - because "we ask too much of the hyphen."

(Civil War: Battle Damage Report) - Tony Stark considered SpellCheck as a potential Initiative recruit.

Comments: Created by Ted McKeever.

Oh, man. This guy needs to be in the Initiative. Pronto.

SpellCheck's full name was revealed in Civil War: Battle Damage Report.

Profile by Minor Irritant

Clarifications:

Typeface has no known connections to:

images:
 Full shot - Spider-Man's Tangled Web#18 , p14, panel 1
Head shot - Spider-Man's Tangled Web#18 , p3, panel 4

Spider-Man's Tangled Web#18 (November, 2002) - Ted McKeever (story and art), John Miesegaes (editor)
Civil War: Battle Damage Report (2007)

Last updated: 02/12/06

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