#Mark Raxton

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Ideas from months ago that I just got around to drawing 💀

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From Venom Vol. 5 #037

Art by CAFU and Frank D’Armata

Written by Torunn Grønbekk

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[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Venom #37

VENOM #37

THE BATTLE IS BACK IN TIME – AGAINST SPIDER-MAN! As Eddie and Dylan Brock’s father/son war rages, ANOTHER Dylan Brock is on a mission to make sure things go the way they’re supposed to. An older Dylan – Old Man Venom – travels back in time to Spider-Man’s earliest days – but should he fail, it’s not just the fates of the combatants of the Venom War at stake – but the fate of all of time itself!

LEGACY #237

Written by: Torunn Grønbekk Art by: CAFU Cover by: CAFU Page Count: 32 Pages Release Date: September 11, 2024

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Amazing Spider-Man #173 (October, 1977) Art by Ross Andru, John Romita, and John Costanza

[aaronymous999]

The voices wouldn’t stop whispering

[lazymonth]

“Now this is an avengers level threat”

four elements monsters but actually they’re just this four villains in the gigantic elements mode

[fatsamsgrandslamspeakeasy]

Today, I am going to spot light my favorite B-rated Spider-Man villain The Molten Man aka Mark Raxton. Created by the awesome team of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Molten Man always reminded me in a ways of The Phantom of the Opera, as far as having very similar origin stories. Introduced in June, 1965, In The Amazing Spider-Man , Vol 1 #28, The Molten Man presented a striking figure that stood out against an almost all black cover background. The story goes like this:

High School graduation day is coming soon, so Peter is let out of school early and he pays a visit to Spencer Smythe, creator of the Spider Slayer robot (from ASpM Vol1,#25, March 1965). As Peter is about to leave, he notices a commotion between Smythe and Mark Raxton over a liquid metal alloy. A greedy and impatient Raxton intends to sell it, and Smythe fights back saying more testing needed to be done. As Peter goes to help, the Spider Slayer robot grabs him, and he watches helplessly as Smythe is struck down, and the jar of liquid metal alloy spills onto Raxton. Shades of Phantom of the Opera!

Raxton leaves for a hospital and, lost in thought, is almost hit by a car. When he lashes out, he realizes his strength and decides on a life of crime. Spider-Man confronts Raxton and begins to battle him, taking extremely hard blows due to Raxton’s new body of metal. Spider-Man knocks the lights out, and in the dark ties up Raxton’s hands and feet with super-thick webbing and leaves him for the police. Peter Parker attends his graduation and unfortunately J. Jonah Jameson is the guest speaker. In later issues, it will be revealed that Molten Man is actually the step-brother of Liz Allen Osborn, who marries Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn! Yep, the son of Spidey's greatest nemesis, Norman Osborn aka The Green Goblin! Oh, what a tangled web......

Since Molten Man, I always thought, made such a striking character, I have included covers and panels that showcase the best of Molten Man. Enjoy!

[pierre-reads-comics]

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #28 — Stan Lee, Steve Ditko

Oh man, it's been a while since Spider-Man has fought in the dark.

Wished it lasted longer, but it's always cool to see him take advantage of his Spider-Sense like this.

[sharkwing]

Huge shoutout to the Molten Man’s golden, asbestos-lined undies for keeping this thing PG

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Amazing Spider-Man #440

John Byrne/Rafael Kayanan

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“Calm down, you old bastard. Calm the hell down.” -- Dylan Brock

Cover art for Venom Vol. 5 #036

Art by CAFU

[yoshimickster]

Let's get real here, we ALL know Molten Man was supposed to be called the Metal Man right?

Because in his intro appearance,his powers were not based in ANY WAY on melting,it was all about his metal skin.

It's even more awkward because in one scene the cops ask a schmuck "Have you seen a man with Molten skin?" HOW DOES HIS SKIN LOOK MOLTEN-its METAL, dammit-METAL!

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Cult of Carnage: Misery #4

CULT OF CARNAGE: MISERY #4

A FIGHT AGAINST MADNESS! The new symbiotic monstrosity called Madness inadvertently forced Liz Allan to bond to the all-new MISERY symbiote, changing both her life and the world of the symbiotes FOREVER! Imbued with all the powers and personalities of the LIFE FOUNDATION SYMBIOTES (and more!), Madness is a symbiotic force unlike any other in the Marvel Universe. There is nowhere that Liz Allan can go where Madness cannot follow, no one she can ask for help who Madness cannot destroy and nothing she can do to stop the brutality of its onslaught.

Written by: Sabir Pirzada Art by: Francesco Mortarino (Artist), Javier Tartaglia (Colorist), Joe Sabino (Letterer) Cover Art by: Skan Page Count: 28 pages Release Date: August 30, 2023

[aaronymous999]

Spectacular Spider-Man’s Molten Man actually inspired Aaron Allan’s whole character and his story so… yeah he’s my favorite. I also just love the Molten Man in the comics, he and Sandman are actually remarkably similar and Molten Man is so unrelated compared to him.

Ermmm yeah put Molten Man in more of your Spider Stories if you want me to obsess over it /j

Best forgotten Spider-Man villain?

[aaronymous999]

i am not up to date on this spideysona au whats up with your sinister six roster?

OHHH this is a fun question!!

The Sinister Six isn’t fully pictured in my drawing, because it’s Civilian designs and Rhino is sort of… bonded to his villain outfit so.

But let me go over it!

Our leader of the Sinister Six and the one who brought them together is Otoha Octavius, the daughter of Otto Octavius. In this AU she is Doc Ock. Her father was a former Oscorp scientist who was laid off, and Otoha’s best friend Anna Maria Marconi passed away after taking money to participate in an experiment at Oscorp, so Otoha is pretty pissed off with Oscorp and Norman Osborn. Using her father’s old blueprints and designs, she creates Doc Ock’s arms and becomes Doctor Octopus. Otoha is based of Otoha Okutomiya from Octopus Girl, where she inhabits a body with Otto Octavius. But here she’s his daughter instead. And instead of Anna Maria being an Otto love interest, she’s Otoha’s.

Next up we have our first recruited member, Adrian Toomes or the Vulture! Adrian is a frail old man who is also a former Oscorp scientist who was laid off, in doing so he stole Oscorp tech that they were creating for the military and became the Vulture. In attempts to make Norman pay, he attempted to kidnap Harry Osborn, but failed when Spider-Man intervened. Adrian accidentally disabled another student, Peter Parker in the attack, and because of this and the events of the finale of arc 1, he quits the Sinister Six and turns himself in.

After this we have Aleksei Systevich, or the Rhino, a broke immigrant who was involved in an Oscorp military experiment for cash and was bonded to the Rhino armor. Which when Otoha informed him that the scientists were lying to him and didn’t actually know how to get it off? He went ballistic and was recruited to the Sinister Six by Otoha. He’s very much the muscle of the group and in the family dynamic I’ve built for the Six is sort of like Otoha’s older brother.

Our next recruit is Mac Gargan, or Scorpion. He’s very much an outlier here- a “we’ll work with him until we get our goal and then we’ll exile him” because Mac is actually a serial killer who stole the Scorpion armor from Oscorp. He doesn’t have a grudge against Norman or Oscorp or anything- he just enjoys human suffering and sought out Otoha and the others on his own. Everyone treats him like a weird distant cousin and are too scared to really say anything to him at all.

The second to last recruit is former VFX artist, Quincy Beck, also known as Mysterio. She’s been around for a while causing chaos, but it’s never really hurt anyone or been for a specific goal until Oscorp stole her technology she made for practical effects to use for the military. They distorted her holographic projecting tech drones into drones with weapons, able to create illusions to throw off opponents. Being completely opposed to the use of her tech in this way, as Mysterio she became violent towards Oscorp and was eventually recruited by the Sinister Six, where she took on a mother like role to Otoha. Eventually becoming so close to her that she’d be willing to abandon her own ideals just to protect her.

And our last member is Mark Allan, or the Molten Man. He was recruited during the middle of the first arc after an outburst. He’s yet another experiment of Oscorp and is unable to find a cure for his condition, becoming the Molten Man at any sort of emotion other than complete and utter numbness. He joined the Sinister Six after his brother, Spider-Man discovered his identity and he ruined his reputation at school, he had nowhere else he thought he could go. And he could get revenge on Norman Osborn in the process.

So that’s everybody! At least the first roster, a few of the members change out but I’m refraining from spoiling too much although it’s pretty easy to guess.