Generation 1
Dr. Spencer Smythe
Generation 2
Dr. Marla Madison
Generation 3
Alistair Smythe
| Device or Vehicle |
|
| Spider-Slayer | |
| Nick Name | |
| | | |
| Creator or Inventor | |
|
Generation 1 Dr. Spencer Smythe Generation 2 Dr. Marla Madison Generation 3 Alistair Smythe |
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| Owner or Possessor | |
| J. Jonah Jameson | |
| Function or Uses | |
| Series of robots created to humiliate, capture or kill Spider-Man. | |
| Size | |
| Varies | |
| Weight | |
| Varies | |
| Special Properties | |
| Spider-Slayers are generally remotely controlled by a human, who can view the action through the machine's audio and video receptors. | |
| Regularly Appearing | |
| Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 | |
| First Appearance | |
| Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 #25 (June, 1965) | |
| Creator | |
| Stan Lee & Steve Ditko | |
| Origin | |
| Believing Dr. Spencer Smythe to be another crackpot inventor who wished to waste his valuable time, Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson was prepared to show him the door - until free-lance photographer Peter Parker convinced Jameson he had nothing to lose in allowing Smythe to demonstrate his robot designed to capture Spider-Man. Feeling cocky, Parker believed Smythe's invention to be a less than prodigious automaton which he could use to turn the tables on Jameson and embarrass him once again as Spider-Man while simultaneously earning a tidy profit from photographs of the battle to come. Only by using his knowledge of science and computerized robotics was Spider-Man capable of escaping the first of many encounters with a Spider-Slayer. |