Spymaster (comics)

Spymaster
Spymaster III Art by Frazer Irving.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	(Original) Iron Man #33 (January 1971) (Lemon) Iron Man #254 (March 1990) (Abbot) Iron Man: The Inevitable #1 (2007)
Created by	Allyn Brodsky Don Heck Stan Lee
In-story information
Alter ego	Sinclair Abbot
Team affiliations	Espionage Elite AIM The Maggia Roxxon Oil S.H.I.E.L.D. Zodiac
Partnerships	Justin Hammer
Notable aliases	I: Cobalt Man, Iron Knight, Hogan Potts, Spare Parts Man, Golden Avenger, Shellhead, Ted Calloway, Jake Jordan, Anthony Stark II: Number One, Santa Claus, Harmon Taylor
Abilities	Exceptional strategist Excellent hand to hand combatant Extraordinary industrial spy and saboteur Master of disguise Superb actor Highly agile and skilled athlete Greatly skilled in the uses of virtually any kind of gun Access to cutting-edge technology Use of electronically amplified nun-chakas Wears bulletproof battlesuit that grants: Minimal protection from physical attacks Various pockets for holding weaponry

Spymaster is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Spymaster is a Marvel Comics supervillain, whose primary antagonist is Iron Man. He is a master of industrial espionage. His identity has changed several times over the years.

The first appearance of the character is in Iron Man #33, and he was created by Allyn Brodsky, Don Heck, and Stan Lee.

The original Spymaster was a costumed freelance industrial spy, saboteur, and assassin with advanced weaponry. He was a master of espionage, and died without revealing his true identity, although it is known that he was once a boxer. He and his team of assistants, the Espionage Elite, were hired by the criminal organization the Zodiac to infiltrate Stark Industries and steal all of company owner and genius inventor Tony Stark's secrets. His efforts were stopped by Stark's alter-ego, the armored superhero Iron Man. However, he was assigned by the Zodiac to capture Daredevil but failed at that as well. Spymaster aided Aquarius, Capricorn, and Sagittarius in an attempt to steal the Zodiac Key from Stark. The Spymaster was transported to the other-dimensional realm of the Brotherhood of the Ankh, but returned to Earth and escaped. Spymaster was assigned by renegade S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to assassinate Tony Stark, but failed. He was employed by Madame Masque to steal a prototype energizer link, and abducted Bethany Cabe.

Spymaster would come into conflict with Iron Man several more times, and on one occasion with the masked hero Daredevil. At one point Spymaster apparently succeeded in assassinating Tony Stark, but in reality it was a Life Model Decoy. He also succeeded in stealing many of Stark's Iron Man designs, giving them over to Stark's rival Justin Hammer, sparking the Armor Wars event. Stark believes that Spymaster may have found out his secret identity, but that Spymaster kept it to himself.