Enforcers (comics)
| The Enforcers | |
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Cover art for Daredevil (vol. 2) #102.
Art by Marko Djurdjevic. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Amazing Spider-Man #10 (March 1964) |
| Created by |
Stan Lee (writer) Steve Ditko (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | New York City |
| Member(s) |
Fancy Dan The Ox Montana Hammer Harrison Snake Marston |
The Enforcers are a fictional team of villains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, the team's first appearance was in The Amazing Spider-Man #10 (March 1964).
The Enforcers appear often in the early issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, debuting in #10, and returning in #14 and #18–19, in the latter two issues teaming with the supervillain Sandman. The team would go on to appear in Daredevil #356–357, and Dazzler #7–8, and fight Spider-Man again in Marvel Team-Up #39–40 and #138, The Spectacular Spider-Man #19–20, Spider-Man (1990s series) #94–95, Spider-Man, vol. 2, #28, and elsewhere.
The Enforcers are a group of hired assassins and extortionists, each with an expertise in a different unique area of combat, whose goal it is to aid various employers in the takeover of New York City's criminal gangs. In their first appearance, the Enforcers aided the Big Man (Frederick Foswell) in his attempt to gain control of New York City's criminal gangs. They clashed with the superhero Spider-Man for the first time, and are defeated by him. They were subsequently employed by corrupt industrialist Norman Osborn, hired them to shut down Malone's Flophouse in a bid to gain the land. However, then-amnesiac Malone resident Namor the Sub-Mariner thwarted them, later destroying Osborn's construction equipment. They next aided the Green Goblin in his first unsuccessful attempt to eliminate Spider-Man, but were again defeated and jailed. Soon after that, they joined forces with the Sandman to subdue the Human Torch at a point where it was believed Spider-Man had become a coward, but are defeated by the combined might of Spider-Man and the Human Torch.
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