DEADSPOT

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human technology user (Earth-982)

Occupation: Assassin

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Black Tarantula (Fabian LaMuerto) (see comments)

Enemies: Chesbro, Crimelord (Mona Carlo), Charlie Kurkle, Spider-Girl (May Parker)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile throughout Earth-982

First Appearance: Amazing Spider-Girl#16 (March, 2008)

Powers/Abilities: Deadspot wears a high-tech stealth suit that renders her totally invisible and silent.  The suit also generates a magnetic field that can disintegrate matter or kill with a touch.

History: (Amazing Spider-Girl#16 (fb) ) - Deadspot somehow obtained a high-tech stealth suit, and established herself as a high-priced assassin for hire.

(Amazing Spider-Girl#16) - Deadspot assassinated a US Senator in Paris; afterwards, she was contracted by the South American crimelord Black Tarantula to assassinate the super-heroine Spider-Girl.  Travelling to New York, she ambushed the Tarantula's aide, Chesbro, who had alerted Spider-Girl to the threat, in his hotel suite.  Before she could kill him, he asked her to tell him who'd hired her; before she could finish telling him, Spider-Girl returned and attacked her.  After she disintegrated Spider-Girl's webbing, Chesbro lunged at her, but was blasted with her magnetic field.  She then went invisible, but Spider-Girl's spider-sense allowed her to track her foe, and she used her repulsion powers to knock Deadspot through the wall into the hallway.  She ran into the elevator, but Spider-Girl followed her; they struggled in the confined elevator until it stopped in the hotel ballroom, where a wedding was being held.  Deadspot turned invisible and punched the photographer, leaving Spider-Girl to deal with the enraged guests while she stole a waitress' uniform and snuck out.

(Amazing Spider-Girl#17) - The Tarantula called Deadspot in her hotel room, giving her a new assignment.

(Amazing Spider-Girl#18) - On her employer's orders, Deadspot snuck into the Crimelord's auction of a disc purportedly containing the Kingpin's secret files.  When the arrival of Spider-Girl and the Hobgoblin turned into a huge brawl, Crimelord fled and Deadspot followed.  When the Crimelord was confronted by Charlie Kurkle, the former owner of the disc, Deadspot killed him, unaware (as was Charlie) that the Crimelord was his lover Mona Carlo.  Soon Spider-Girl arrived, and despite Deadspot's best attempts to escape, Spider-Girl tore off her suit's power pack, knocked her unconscious, and handed her over to the cops.

Comments: Created by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, and Sal Buscema.

I may be totally misreading this, but it really seems as if the Black Tarantula hired Deadspot, so I'm not sure why Chesbro tried to get Deadspot to reveal her employer's identity.  It's been a while since I read through Spider-Girl, though, so I may have missed something.

Physics was never my strong point, but I'm not entirely sure if a magnetic field, even a really strong one, can kill someone.

Profile by Minor Irritant.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Deadspot has no known connections to

• DEAD, the Direct Euthanasia Action Division @ Marvel Team-Up II#1
• Dead Aim, assassin for the Foreigner @ Spectacular Spider-Man II#209
• Deadair, of the Death Sponsors @ Uncanny X-Men Annual I#16
• Deadair (Pyron), Taskmaster trainee @ Deadpool III#39
• Deadbird, of the Nightmericans @ Hulk: Nightmerica#2
• Deadbolt, Dark Rider @ Cable II#17
• Deadend (Malovick), Taskmaster trainee @ Deadpool III#39
• Deadeye, of the Sensor Squad @ Moon Knight III#39
• Deadeye, two members of Humanity's Last Stand's Mutant Liberation Front @ Punisher III#12
• Deadeye Dick, of the Scourge @ Wolverine II#154
• Dead Girl (Moonbeam), undead member of X-Force/X-Statix @ X-Force I#125
• Dead Hangman of Rivertown (George Munson), Golden Age Namor foe @ Human Torch Comics#25/4
• Deadhead, weapons smuggler @ Nova II#10
• Deadhead (Rick Shea), Headshop member @ Incredible Hulk II#437
• Deadline (Kishi Oramosha), villainous Japanese scientist @ Marvel Comics Presents I#32/4
• Deadly Dozen, ragtag WWII unit @ Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos#98
• Deadly Ernest, nigh-immortal Montreal crimelord @ Alpha Flight I#7
• Deadly Nightshade, werewolf-making scientist @ Captain America I#164
• Deadmaker, Russian assassin, mantle later taken up by his son @ Amazing Spider-Man Annual 1996/2
• Deadpool (Wade Wilson), the Merc with a Mouth @ New Mutants I#98
• Dead Ringer (Lou Dexter), shapeshifting Captain America foe @ Captain America I#425
• Deadshot Darrance, big game hunter/assassin @ Marvel Fanfare I#11
  
• Deadweight (Electra), Taskmaster trainee @ Deadpool III#39
• Deadzone (John DeZoan), electric Moon Knight foe @ Moon Knight III#45
• Deadshot (Floyd Lawton), elite assassin from some other comics publisher
  
• or any other hired assassins 

images: (without ads)
Amazing Spider-Girl#16, p2, pan3 (main image)
Amazing Spider-Girl#16, p2, pan7 (helmetless)

Appearances:
Amazing Spider-Girl#16-18 (March-May, 2008) - Tom DeFalco (writer), Ron Frenz (pencils), Sal Buscema (inks), Molly Lazer (editor)

First Posted: 12/12/2012
Last updated: 10/14/2013

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