TARANTULA

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human

Occupation: Professional criminal

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Electro (Max Dillon)

Enemies: Alyosha Kravinoff, Runaways (Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, Nico Minoru, Victor Mancha, Old Lace, Chase Stein, Gertrude Yorkes), Spider-Man

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed

First Appearance: Get Kraven#1 (August, 2002)

Powers/Abilities: Unrevealed. Presumably, he has the same abilities as his predecessors, including athletic-level speed and agility, as well as poison-filled spikes on the tips of his boots.

History:

The origins of this Tarantula are unrevealed.

(Get Kraven#1) - Tarantula was present at one of the various Bars with No Name. When Spider-Man arrived, several of the villains present attacked him. They were fought off by Spider-Man and Alyosha Kravinoff. Injured, Tarantula hobbled out the door alongside Electro.

(Runaways II#7 (fb)-BTS ) - Tarantula ran afoul of the Runaways in Van Nuys, and was defeated after their leader Nico Minoru used a "fumigation/debugging" spell on him.

Comments: Created by Ron Zimmerman, John McCrea and James Hodgkins.

This Tarantula showed up as a background character in the Get Kraven series, though both known characters wearing that outfit were deceased. A couple of years later, Brian K. Vaughan wrote a throwaway line in his Runaways book about that team defeating "that new Tarantula." While doing preliminary work for other projects, I asked BKV if the two could be the same character, and he graciously allowed us to do so.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Tarantula is the successor to

• Tarantula (Antonio Miguel Rodriquez), Delvadian assassin, Spider-Man foe @ Amazing Spider-Man I#134
• Tarantula (Luis Alvarez), Rodriquez's successor, slain by Jury @ Web of Spider-Man#35
• Tarantula's daughter, Rodriquez's daughter, partner of Batroc's daughter @

but has  no known connections to

• Tarantula (Clay Riley), Old West, Phantom Rider foe @ Ghost Rider I#2
• Tarantula, Delvadian hero of 1890s @ Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files
  
• Tarantula (Maria Vasquez), Heroes for Hire @ Heroes for Hire II#1
• Black Tarantula (Carlos LaMuerto), criminal mastermind in Argentina @ Amazing Spider-Man I#419
  
• or any other "tarantula" characters

images: (without ads)
Get Kraven#1, page 31, panel 1

Appearances:
Get Kraven#1 (August, 2002) - Ron Zimmerman (writer), John McCrea (penciler), James Hodgkins (inker)
Runaways II#7 (October, 2005) - Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Takeshi Miyazawa (penciler), Craig Yeung (inker), MacKenzie Cadenhead (editor)

Last updated: 04/03/07

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