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| Dr. Farley Stillwell | |
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_from_Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_20_001.png) Farley Stillwell as seen inAmazing Spider-Man #20. | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Amazing Spider-Man #20 (1965) |
| Created by | Stan Lee Steve Ditko |
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| Alter ego | Farley Stillwell |
| Species | Human |
| Abilities | Genius-level intellect |
Farley Stillwell is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. He is a scientist best known for transformingMac Gargan into theScorpion.
Stillwell first appeared inThe Amazing Spider-Man #20 (January 1965), and was created by writerStan Lee and artistSteve Ditko.
WhenJ. Jonah Jameson first hiresPeter Parker, he was amazed at how he managed to obtain pictures of Spider-Man. He hires private investigatorMac Gargan to look into this. When Jameson sees an article about inducing animalistic mutations in humans, he visits the scientist who established the experiment: Farley Stillwell. Jameson initially believes Stillwell to be acrackpot, but later sees him as an opportunity to take down Spider-Man. When he first goes to see Stillwell in his lab, Jameson has him experiment on Gargan. Stillwell gives Gargan a high-tech scorpion-suit, causing him to become the criminal Scorpion. Shortly after the experiment, Stillwell runs tests and finds that his experiment is not a true success; Scorpion would lose his sanity as he got stronger. Creating an antidote, Stillwell heads to where Spider-Man was fighting the Scorpion. After learning the side effects of the formula from Stillwell, Scorpion decides that he wants to keep his powers and climbs up a building. Stillwell climbs up after him, but loses his grip and falls to his death.[1]
It was later revealed that Farley Stillwell had a brother named Harlan Stillwell who used the experiment to create theHuman Fly after Richard Deacon held him at gunpoint. After Deacon becomes the Human Fly, he shoots and kills Harlan.[2]
The Stillwell brothers' technology would also be used to give superpowers to theAnswer,[3] and the fourthVulture.[4]
The sixth volume ofThe Amazing Spider-Man reveals thatRegent's minionShannon Stillwell is the sister of Farley and Harlan Stillwell. Their mother is Melodia Stillwell, who is also known asMadame Monstrosity and similarly specializes in combining animal and human DNA to create her Humanimals.[5] Farley's father Jeremy Stillwell was turned into an owl Humanimal after being fused with an owl; an attempt to restore Jeremy to normal resulted in Jeremy's mind being in the owl's body and vice versa.[6]
Farley Stillwell is a brilliant biologist and cyberneticist.[1]
An alternate universe version of Farley Stillwell from Earth-58163 appears inHouse of M: Avengers #1 as one of several scientists who gaveLuke Cage his powers.[7]
A female character based on Farley Stillwell, simply referred to asDoctor Stillwell, appears inSpider-Man 3, voiced byNika Futterman.[11] She is the head of a science corporation called MechaBioCon who captured Scorpion for use in her military cybernetics and mind control experiments.
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