Crime Master
| Crime Master I | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Amazing Spider-Man #26 (July 1965) |
| Created by |
Stan Lee Steve Ditko (designer) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Nicholas "Nick" "Lucky" Lewis |
| Crime Master II | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Marvel Team-Up #39 (November 1975) |
| Created by | Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Nicholas "Nick" Lewis Jr. |
| Crime-Master | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
as Bennett Brant: The Amazing Spider-Man #11 as Crime Master: Venom #1 (March 2011) |
| Created by | as Bennett Brant: Stan Lee Steve Ditko (designer) as Crime-Master: Rick Remender and Tony Moore |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Bennett Brant |
| Team affiliations | Savage Six |
The Crime Master is a super-villain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted of the professional-criminal type, and an enemy of Spider-Man. Created and designed by artist and plotter Steve Ditko with writer and editor Stan Lee he first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #26 (July 1965). The character was most notable for having briefly been the partner of the Green Goblin. Both villains aspire to take over the criminal mobs of New York and form an uneasy partnership. They are both aware of the other's secret identity which keeps them from outwardly betraying the other. The Crime-Master only lasted two issues, being killed at the conclusion of The Amazing Spider-Man #27; however, there was a second Crime Master in the 1970s, and new stories were written in the pages of Untold Tales of Spider-Man that featured the original character before his death.
The Crime Master debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #26, his identity unknown. He was killed and revealed as Nicholas "Nick" "Lucky" Lewis after his death. His son, Nicholas Lewis Jr. became the second Crime Master in Marvel Team-Up #39 (November 1975) and #40 and teamed up with the second Big Man. This Crime-Master did not know the identity of his partner and betrayed and shot to death the Big Man, who turned out to be his girlfriend Janice Foswell, daughter of Frederick Foswell, the original Big Man, after unmasking. Devastated by the discovery, Lewis Jr. has not appeared as The Crime-Master since.
The original Crime Master was also featured in an untold story from before his death in Untold Tales of Spider-Man #23 (August 1997) and again in Untold Tales of Spider-Man #25. That issue is somewhat controversial as it alters the storyline from The Amazing Spider-Man #26-27. This story shows the Crime Master and Green Goblin reveal their identities to each other. The Goblin, however, is wearing a mask of J. Jonah Jameson under his Goblin mask so as to suggest that The Crime Master really believed that Jameson was the Goblin instead of Norman Osborn. This does not make sense in the continuity of The Amazing Spider-Man #26 as thought bubbles reveal that the Goblin is concerned about The Crime-Master revealing his identity.
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