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113-398: A spider-powered Gwen Stacy was first envisioned by longtime Spider-Man writer Dan Slott for the 2014–15 " Spider-Verse " storyline. However, his initial concept was very different from what was published, which was mainly the work of Spider-Gwen creators Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez. In October, Nick Lowe announced at New York Comic Con 2014 that the fan-favorite Spider-Gwen who

226-815: A Carnage -bonded Green Goblin. After that, he finished his run with his final issue being #801. After finishing his run on The Amazing Spider-Man , Slott began writing Tony Stark: Iron Man and Fantastic Four . In January 2020, when Diamond Comics released its list of the Top 100 Best-Selling Comics of the Decade, nine of the titles were ones written by Slott: The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (2014), The Amazing Spider-Man #800, Fantastic Four #1 (2018), The Amazing Spider-Man #700, The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (2015), The Amazing Spider-Man #798, Superior Spider-Man #1, The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1, and The Amazing Spider-Man #799. In May 2021, Slott publicly apologized for

339-513: A "superhuman lawyer" in the Marvel Universe . After relaunching in October 2005, the second series met with higher sales, and after tie-ins with crossover storylines " Civil War " and " World War Hulk ", reached its highest numbers yet. In 2007 Slott left the title with volume 2 #21, and became one of the writers on The Amazing Spider-Man . While She-Hulk was on hiatus in 2005, Slott penned

452-463: A clone indicates his unnatural existence has muddied the properties of the ritual. Spider-Man, in his black costume, confronts Kraven and the rest of the Kravinoff Family. Spider-Man is tempted to kill Kraven, who eagerly and desperately attempts to goad him into it. Beating him brutally, Spider-Man takes Kraven's spear in hand and prepares to grant his enemy his wish but he refuses to do so when he

565-524: A code of honour of sorts, choosing to hunt his game fairly. He consumes a mystical serum to give himself enhanced strength and dramatically slow the aging process. Kraven was trained as a hunter largely by a mysterious man named Gregor, a mercenary who once battled Ka-Zar . Kraven was, at one point, the lover of the voodoo priestess Calypso . He is contacted by his half-brother the Chameleon to defeat Spider-Man. He leads Spider-Man to Central Park with

678-439: A direct reference to the 1924 short story of the same name , in which General Zaroff, a Russian big-game hunter (and a primary inspiration for the character), hunts people for sport. Kraven is typically portrayed as a renowned big-game hunter whose goal in life is to beat Spider-Man to prove himself as the world's greatest hunter. Though he is often overconfident in his own abilities, about which he likes to boast, he possesses

791-552: A director. Despite celebrity connections, Al's efforts were stonewalled by arrogance, greed, and corruption within the Hollywood elite. Forced out of Hollywood by the powerful Rothstein brothers, Al is beaten while Timber was brutally raped. Both Al and Timber exacted vengeance which involved defeating another half-brother Ned Tannengarden (who was later killed by Chameleon) and left Hollywood to pursue heroics in New York City. Alyosha

904-403: A final goodbye before being returned to his death. By regularly ingesting the potion made from various unnamed jungle herbs, Kraven grants himself superhuman physical abilities, making him a physical threat to Spider-Man, although these powers are not as developed as those possessed by Spider-Man. Kraven's body is also more durable, and more resistant to certain forms of injury than the body of

1017-577: A friendship with him. She helps Kraven realize that Spider-Man is not even close to being the most dangerous prey in the Marvel Universe. In a prelude to " Hunted ", Kraven the Hunter reminisces about how Sasha, Vladimir, and Alyosha were killed by him and Ana for not living up to his legacy. After cutting a deal with the High Evolutionary , Kraven the Hunter has 87 clones of him created, trained as

1130-413: A ghost in the graphic novel The Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter , also by DeMatteis, Zeck, and McLeod. DeMatteis also wrote "Kraven's First Hunt" for The Sensational Spider-Man Annual '96, a retelling of The Amazing Spider-Man #15 which incorporated several DeMatteis retcons , such as that Kraven was abusive towards the Chameleon . Sergei Kravinoff (Сергей Кравинов) is a Russian immigrant,

1243-727: A great sense of honor, and treats his adversaries as equals until proven otherwise. Because of this, Kraven has sometimes been depicted as an antihero and has teamed up with other heroes, including Spider-Man, the Avengers of 1959 , and Squirrel Girl , in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015–2019). The character is widely regarded as one of Spider-Man's most formidable enemies, and has gained considerable attention from storylines such as 1987's " Kraven's Last Hunt ," 2010's " Grim Hunt ", 2015–2019's " The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl's Friend Kraven ", and 2019's " Hunted ". The mantle of Kraven

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1356-461: A helpless girl. Xraven was momentarily fazed by his comment, but attacked again, claiming that he is the "favored one". Cyclops realizes Xraven's weakness and tells him that Mister Sinister sees him as nothing but a pawn. He tells Xraven to read his mind, in order for him to see the kind of a man Sinister really is. After Xraven sees Cyclops's memories, he flees, but the X-Men become aware of the fact that he

1469-435: A humanoid lion was the result of Mattie not being a "pure spider". Vladimir later assists Ana Kravinoff and Alyosha Kravinoff with capturing Anya Corazon as well as a second attempt to capture Arachne . Following Kraven the Hunter's resurrection, Vladimir was shown attempting to attack Arachne and Araña while they are bound. Sergei fends off Vladimir rather brutally. Sasha mentioned to Sergei that Vladimir's sub-human state

1582-453: A mistake". Slott stated that he was grateful that Robbie Thompson and Nick Lowe removed those elements when they took over the series. In July 2022, Marvel announced that Slott would return full time to the Spider-Man franchise in October as the writer on Spider-Man a series following the aftermath of the " Edge of Spider-Verse " storyline. Slott would be joined by artist Mark Bagley on

1695-551: A new character, Grasshopper , and reviving an obscure one, Squirrel Girl . During this period, Slott signed an exclusive contract with Marvel. He has since returned to the GLA twice, first with the 2005 GLX-Mas Special , following a name change to the Great Lakes X-Men , and then again in the 2007 Deadpool /GLI Summer Fun Spectacular with co-writer Fabian Nicieza , to coincide with Marvel's Civil War: The Initiative branding. At

1808-429: A normal human. He can withstand great impact forces, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhumanly strong opponent, that would severely injure or kill a normal human, with little to no injury to himself. The effects of the potion have dramatically altered Kraven's aging process to the point that he has aged little, if at all, over several decades. Despite being over 70 years of age, he has

1921-572: A sample of his DNA . Mister Sinister later cut a deal with Carnage to obtain a sample of the Carnage symbiote . After removing the sentience from the Carnage symbiote sample, Mister Sinister combined it with the DNA of the original X-Men and Kraven the Hunter, where he would use this creation at a later date. Years later after the death of Kraven, an ex-Morlock who had kept his powers post M-Day named Joe Buggs

2034-417: A signal flare into the sky. This attracted the attention of Spider-Woman , who defeated Kraven the Hunter. Jennie Sheldon even took pictures of the fight. At the time when Venom encountered some Dinosaur People in the sewers, Kraven the Hunter followed Venom and killed an Ankylosaurus -type Dinosaur Person before engaging Venom in battle. He was fended off by Venom, who vowed to fight Kraven again. Upon

2147-414: A stand against Castle and not run any longer, blindsiding him as he unmasks her while trying to get away. Gwen is unsure of how secure her secret identity is as she hides from her father and awaits the recollection of Frank Castle. Her problems are put to the side when a Lizard appears on the streets, seemingly having taken something similar to Peter Parker's formula. The dog of Spider-Gwen's "arch-nemesis",

2260-471: A target by scent, much as some animals do, even if the scent has been somewhat eroded by natural factors. Even without his superhuman powers, Kraven is an Olympic-level athlete, and a gifted tactician, hunter, and hand-to-hand combatant. He also has great knowledge of pressure points , both in the anatomy of humans and in many animals. He can strike at these nerve clusters with pinpoint accuracy, allowing him to incapacitate more powerful opponents or animals. He

2373-566: A team to fight Spider-Man. They capture Aunt May and Betty Brant . He attacks Spider-Man in Central Park with three tigers . Spider-Man fights off the attackers and secures the next clue to where Aunt May and Betty Brant are being held. After Aunt May and Betty Brant are rescued, Kraven the Hunter and the rest of the Sinister Six are arrested by the police. While in the Savage Land , Kraven

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2486-413: A very flexible skeletal structure enough for him to press them to the back of his torso and legs with only the slightest bulge visible under his clothing (Carnage's DNA allowed the wings to be flexible). He was able to defeat Cyclops and Shadowcat , holding her hostage, giving the ultimatum that he would kill her if they did not surrender. Spider-Man insulted Xraven, claiming that Kraven would never threaten

2599-534: A vial of the Lizard formula and unmasks her to his surprise. After an issue break from the fight, involving a story line of George Stacy conversing with Matt Murdock, Gwen resumes her fight with a now-mutated Harry Osborn with the assistance of Captain America. Gwen eventually convinces Harry that he is in the wrong and allows him to run from S.H.I.E.L.D. Gwen reconciles with her father in the end and he quits his job. Following

2712-579: Is Spider-Woman. After the Spider-Verse event, Gwen goes back to her ordinary life of bumming around by day and Spider-Woman-ing by night. Her father passes the Spider-Woman investigation on to Detective Frank Castle . Suddenly, the villainous Vulture appears, secretly working for the Kingpin, and causes trouble for Gwen (Spider-Ham appears for a short time as a hallucination because of an attack). Gwen defeats

2825-554: Is Stacy. The bullied Peter's suffering worsens, and eventually, he creates a formula that turns him into a lizard mutant. On prom night, after he is being bullied yet again, he injects himself with the formula and transforms, going psycho. Gwen Stacy dons her Spider-Woman costume and fights Peter, defeating and accidentally killing him. Peter regresses to his human form in Gwen's arms, telling her he just wanted to "be special" like her and prompting her to realize what she has done. She runs from

2938-408: Is approached by Matt Murdock, Earth 65's Kingpin, who she makes a deal with. He will defend her dad in court as a lawyer, but in return, Spider-Women will work for him. To celebrate halloween, and get her mind off her problems, Gwen and her friends go trick-or treating, and explore an abandoned carnival. Here, Gwen is confronted by a zombified Peter Parker, calling her out on her failures. However, this

3051-451: Is clear that Mister Sinister survived his confrontation with Xraven, it is currently unknown whether Xraven survived. Upon researching Xraven, Captain America does not consider him evil. He states that Xraven must be brought in, partly because of the murder he committed and partly to prevent the Kravinoff family from obtaining him. The daughter of Kraven the Hunter, Ana Kravinoff becomes

3164-461: Is familiar with many exotic poisons and tranquilizers , which he often uses during his hunts. Due to a flaw in the ceremony that resurrected him, Kraven was given "the unlife ... the eternal curse", as he discovered when his daughter stabbed him through the heart. According to Kraven, he can now only die by Spider-Man's hand. However, this curse was apparently broken when Kaine temporarily killed Kraven by stopping his heart and then restarting it with

3277-546: Is in the Savage Land, Agent Venom lands in the area on an unrelated mission from the federal government. Mistaking him to be Spider-Man, Kraven attacks him and gains the upper hand before Venom escapes. At one point, Kraven is contacted by a doctor who once treated him when a past hunt went wrong, the doctor requesting that Kraven track down a recent patient of hers—who had been used as a test subject to duplicate another man's electrical abilities—as well as asking that he capture

3390-469: Is more than just a comic with something for everyone; it's a comic with everything for everyone." Spider-Gwen #1 was the third-best selling comic of February 2015, selling over 300,000 copies. Dan Slott Writer of Amazing Spider-Man #1, winner of 2014's Diamond Gem Award for Top Dollar Comic of the Year Writer of Superior Spider-Man #1, winner of 2013's Diamond Gem Award for Comic of

3503-485: Is no longer your burden. Besides, there won't be much of it left soon...not by the time I've finished." Sometime later, Kraven is pulled through time from moments before his death by Galactus to help their shared friend Squirrel Girl defeat Melissa Morbeck and her own coterie of time-displaced supervillains and former villains. Telling her not to blame herself for his ultimate fate. After reuniting with Doreen and thanking her for all she had done for him Kraven, bids Doreen

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3616-622: Is one of few mutants that retained their superhuman powers after the M-Day . He is one of the superpowered beings recruited within the Beyond! miniseries by Stranger posing as the Beyonder . Alyosha Kraven later eventually becomes fully deranged from experimenting with his father's potions, and in his madness began collecting a zoo of animal-themed superhumans, including Bushmaster II , Gargoyle II , Tiger Shark , Kangaroo II , Aragorn (the version that

3729-501: Is reminded by Julia Carpenter (who has inherited the powers of Madame Web after her death) that committing murder is not in his moral code, and furthermore, by going through with it, damns himself to a future where from that point he takes on a more brutal approach to crime-fighting, including killing suspects, which will lead him to die in a standoff against the police (a scenario previously glimpsed in an earlier issue). Following their defeat by Spider-Man, Kraven and his family escape to

3842-438: Is revealed to be a hallucination caused by a strange gas. Spider-Gwen has received positive reviews from critics. IGN said "Spider-Gwen's new comic gets off to a solid start thanks to a hip tone, strong characterization, and vibrant artwork." Comic Book Resources said that the first issue was "fun, familiar, energetic and invigorating, the art is engaging and the character has nothing but potential to offer. "Spider-Gwen" #1

3955-464: Is shown to now be explosively psychopathic and cold towards his family, beating his son Vladimir and daughter Ana and expressing little attention towards his wife. After being stabbed by his daughter Ana, Sergei recovers, stating that Sasha restored him with corrupted blood which he calls "unlife". They pull off the mask of the corpse of Spider-Man hung in their mantel and discover that Kaine had impersonated Peter in Spider-Man's costume. Kaine's nature as

4068-517: Is unable to find rest until Spider-Man confronts his risen corpse on Kraven's behalf. Across " The Gauntlet " and " Grim Hunt ", Kraven is resurrected from the dead by his ex-wife Sasha Kravinoff and their children with a dark magic ritual using the blood of Spider-Man, following his son Vladimir (who ironically enough had been murdered by Kaine Parker , the same sacrifice victim who brought Kraven himself back to life). Thoroughly unhappy and enraged with having been bestowed an unwanted revival, Sergei

4181-592: The Spider-Man / Human Torch miniseries, which chronicled the friendship of the two characters over the years, with each issue paying tribute to a different era of Marvel Comics. Slott gave the team the Great Lakes Avengers their first ever solo miniseries in GLA: Misassembled , which featured a character being killed in each issue. He made the first roster changes to the team since its inception by creating

4294-498: The Black Panther —currently acting as a 'local' vigilante to regain his sense of self after the destruction of Wakanda 's vibranium —in return for her help finding a way for him to die. With the aid of Storm , T'Challa is able to stay ahead of Kraven long enough to convince him that the doctor had lied about being able to kill him, Kraven agreeing to leave T'Challa alone and take the doctor's mutated animal subjects back with him into

4407-614: The Kingpin , one of New York's most prominent crime bosses, decides to ally himself with Spider-Gwen—for reasons unexplained—and apparently has his lawyer Matt Murdock ( Daredevil on Earth-616 , the main Marvel universe) send the assassin Aleksei Sytsevich to kill Captain Stacy. Gwen arrives and saves her father, who corners her at gunpoint. To avoid getting shot, she reveals to her father that she

4520-493: The Scarlet Spider instead. Kaine (a clone of Spider-Man) arrived and after a confrontation, Vladimir was killed by the insane duplicate. On death's door, he staggered to Gregor falling in his arms and died shortly after that. During " The Gauntlet and Grim Hunt " storyline, Sasha Kravinoff sacrifices Mattie Franklin as part of a revival ritual that resurrects Vladimir as a humanoid lion creature. Vladimir being revived as

4633-970: The Serpent Society , the Squid , and the White Rabbit . In the case of the King Cobra , the Rhino , the Scorpion , Stegron the Dinosaur Man , the Tarantula , and the Vulture, they were grouped together as the Savage Six . While making the final preparations for the "Great Hunt," Kraven the Hunter recaps on his own immortality when it was revealed that the Kraven the Hunter that was stabbed by

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4746-542: The superhero Peter Parker / Spider-Man . He since endured as one of the web-slinger's most formidable foes, and is part of the collective of adversaries that make up Spider-Man's rogues' gallery . Kraven has also come into conflict with other heroes, such as Black Panther and Tigra . He is the half-brother of the supervillain Chameleon , and is one of the founding members of the Sinister Six . In Kraven's first appearance, he calls Spider-Man "the most dangerous game",

4859-512: The "Grim Hunt", where they start going after Kaine. Ana assists her half-brother Alyosha Kravinoff into attempting to abduct Arachne , only to run afoul of Spider-Man, who repels them. Ana alongside Alyosha, Electro , and Diablo are present when Sasha sacrifices Mattie Franklin as part of a ritual that resurrects Vladimir Kravinoff as a humanoid lion creature. Ana alongside Vladimir and Alyosha attacks Anya Corazon , only to end up fighting Spider-Man, Arachne, Kaine , and Ezekiel Sims (who

4972-661: The 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse . Slott and artist Mike Allred launched a new Silver Surfer series in May 2014. In 2016, Slott and Allred's Silver Surfer #11 won the Eisner Award for " Best Single Issue ". In 2018 ended Slott wrote four of the Top 10 selling issues for the entire industry, taking the #2, #4, #8, and #10 spots. That year Slott finished his ten year-plus run on The Amazing Spider-Man . He wrote his last major storyline, titled " Go Down Swinging ", from issue #797–800, which detailed Spider-Man fighting

5085-574: The 21st Century." Slott's run on Amazing included that book's portion of the 2014-15 " Spider-Verse " storyline, which crossed over all the titles starring that character, and featured Peter Parker and Miles Morales interacting with most of the other notable versions of the character interacting for the first time the comics, including Spider-Ham , Spider-Gwen , Spider-Man Noir , and Spider-Man 2099 , an idea Slott had used in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions , and later adapted into

5198-516: The Black Cat from the Last Son of Kraven, but Spider-Man rejects the idea that this can only be accomplished through violence. Upon realizing that he was the beast that he was wanting to kill all along, Kraven the Hunter releases all the surviving animal-themed characters and sends Spider-Man to protect Mary Jane. Kraven the Hunter then dons a copy of Spider-Man's black costume to act like him once more. When

5311-505: The Bodega Bandit, is eaten by the Lizard. Tracking the Lizard into the sewer, Spider-Woman encounters a pack of Lizard-Men. Earth 65's Captain America , Samantha Wilson, shows up to capture the Lizards and Spider-Gwen as well. Gwen battles CA while avoiding the Lizards. Gwen saves CA from the Lizards and they part ways on good terms. After a quick chat with Jessica Drew of Earth-616, Gwen and

5424-621: The Grim Hunt by hunting Kaine . They then witness Spider-Man's fight with the Lizard . He was present at the ritual where Sasha sacrificed Mattie Franklin as part of a revival ritual that resurrects his half-brother Vladimir as a humanoid lion-like creature. After the Kravinoff Family was defeated, Alyosha alongside the other Kravinoff Family members escaped to the Savage Land. Alyosha soon abandoned his family after Kraven killed Sasha and Vladimir. In an attempt to impress Kraven, Ana pursued Alyosha with

5537-509: The Hunter (2024). The character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man issue #15 (August 1964), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko . Though he would occasionally appear in other characters' titles, he was most frequently used as a Spider-Man foe. He is killed off in the acclaimed 1987 storyline by J. M. DeMatteis , Mike Zeck , and Bob McLeod , " Kraven's Last Hunt ". Although generally considered to be

5650-466: The Hunter and Frank Castle. During the fight, Gwen's device is damaged by Kraven, and although she and her father escape, Frank Castle makes off with one of her six remaining power-ups. After having her device repaired by Earth 65's Reed Richards, Gwen suits up and prepares to go after Frank Castle. In an intense fight, Frank Castle manages to escape, and after coming to her aid, Gwen's father turns himself in for assisting Spider-Woman. Two weeks later, Gwen

5763-476: The Hunter and Shriek are arrested by the NYPD, as the captain stated that he never liked Kraven the Hunter anyway. Kraven the Hunter was hired by the evil organization Rampart to lure Captain America to them. After a brief struggle with Kraven the Hunter, Captain America was frozen in ice by Rampart's freeze cannon. Squirrel Girl has helped Kraven reform, teaming up with him to fight other villains, even establishing

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5876-414: The Hunter finds Gog in a spaceship that he stumbles upon. Realizing how useful Gog can be, Kraven the Hunter decides to use him in a plot to conquer the Savage Land. After kidnapping the visiting Gwen Stacy from a camp in the Savage Land, Kraven and Gog battle the heroes Ka-Zar and Spider-Man. While Ka-Zar deals with Kraven, Spider-Man defeats Gog by luring him into a patch of quicksand, which he sinks to

5989-488: The Hunter has also been assumed by Kraven's sons Alyosha and Sergei Kravinoff II , and his daughter Ana Kravinoff . Since his original introduction in comics, the character has been featured in various other Marvel-licensed products, including video games , animated television series , and merchandise. Aaron Taylor-Johnson will portray Kraven the Hunter in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) live-action film Kraven

6102-531: The Hunter is recruited by Baron Helmut Zemo to join the Army of Evil. At the time when Manhattan was surrounded by a Darkforce Dome, Kraven the Hunter raided the Daily Bugle to find information to the identity of Spider-Man. Knowing that J. Jonah Jameson would be in danger, Phil Sheldon's daughter Jennie headed to J. Jonah Jameson's house to warn him. After Kraven the Hunter attacked J. Jonah Jameson, Jennie Sheldon fired

6215-463: The Hunter-Bots and the animal-themed characters, Kraven the Hunter's secret motive is to force Spider-Man into killing him again so that he can be free from his dreadful curse. He does this by trapping Curt Connors when he tries to rescue his son, Billy. Spider-Man was forced to "kill" Curt by tearing out the implant chip that prevented Curt hurting humans as the Lizard , despite the risk that taking out

6328-619: The Kravinoff family. It was later revealed that back in the 1950s, Kraven the Hunter was a member of Nick Fury 's version of the Avengers alongside Dominic Fortune I, Dum Dum Dugan , Namora , Silver Sable , Sabretooth , and Ulysses Bloodstone , tracking a stolen version of the Super-Soldier Serum combined with the Infinity Formula that had been stolen by a group of Nazis attempting to create their own Captain America. While he

6441-538: The Last Son of Kraven is conned into strangling Kraven the Hunter to death, he soon realizes that he was fooled when he sees Spider-Man swinging away. His funeral is attended by the Last Son of Kraven. The Chameleon is revealed to be one of the attendees as he is pleased that Kraven the Hunter spared him from the Great Hunt. As he walks away, the Chameleon tells his dead half-brother to sleep well: "You needn't worry. The world

6554-460: The Mary Janes go on a camping trip where Harry Osborn makes a surprise appearance. He explains his connection with S.H.I.E.L.D. and his motive to go after Spider-Woman. He appears nights later in a green mechanical suit accompanied by an army of orange robots to kill Spider-Woman. After an issue-long battle, Harry sets off an explosion to even the playing field. As Gwen lies on the floor, Harry drinks

6667-418: The Savage Land. While there, Kraven brutally kills Sasha (who complained that Kraven would have to hunt them to prove their place in the Kravinoff family) and euthanizes Vladimir. Alyosha flees in disgust of what his dad did to his stepmom and half-brother afterwards. Kraven and Ana discuss rebuilding the Kravinoff family, which leads to Ana running off to hunt Alyosha to prove herself worthy to Kraven and rebuild

6780-560: The Scarlet Spider to torment him. With the help of Ana, Kraven kidnapped Kaine's friends to motivate the Scarlet Spider to fight him. In the end, Kaine delivered Kraven a fatal blow in the chest, which paralyzed his heart. But using the same attack, Kaine brought him back to life supposedly still breaking the curse. Following the fight, both Kravens disappeared. Kraven, still claiming to be cursed, next battles Squirrel Girl at Empire State University, having earned her ire by lashing out at

6893-518: The Scarlet Spider was actually a clone. Kraven the Hunter sends the Last Son of Kraven to capture Spider-Man for the Great Hunt. After a Hunter-Bot created by Arcade Industries is demonstrated on the Iguana , Kraven the Hunter and Arcade begin the Great Hunt, where Central Park is surrounded by a dome that is from the same technology as the Planetary Defense System. It is revealed that the moment

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7006-794: The Sons of Kraven, and sent out to prove themselves by being hunted by each other. This motif caused Ana to leave him. The one that hunted and killed the other Sons of Kraven was labeled as the Last Son of Kraven . With help from the Taskmaster , the Black Ant , and Arcade , Kraven the Hunter starts hunting various animal-themed characters, like the Beetle , the Kangaroo , the Owl , the Puma ,

7119-464: The Vulture and in the end, he is put away, Murdock continuing to influence him from behind bars. Frank Castle increases his efforts against Spider-Woman, becoming more and more ruthless. Castle eventually makes the connection with Spider-Woman's identity and enlists the help of Kraven the Hunter to perform a siege on the Stacy house. Castle and Kraven brutally beat down Gwen after she gets her father to safety. The volume concludes when Gwen decides to take

7232-516: The Year (Over $ 3.00) Dan Slott (born July 3, 1967) is an American comic book writer, known for his work on Marvel Comics books such as The Amazing Spider-Man , as well as She-Hulk , Silver Surfer , The Superior Spider-Man , Tony Stark: Iron Man , The Mighty Avengers , and Fantastic Four . His work for DC Comics includes the books Arkham Asylum: Living Hell and Batman Adventures . Dan Slott's first published work for Marvel

7345-550: The adventures of Spider-Man, now inhabited by the mind of Doctor Octopus. The first issue won the 2013 Diamond Gem Award for Comic Book of the Year Over $ 3.00. The Superior Spider-Man ended with issue #31, with Peter Parker back as Spider-Man, and lead to a relaunch of The Amazing Spider-Man in April 2014. The first issue of this new version of The Amazing Spider-Man is, according to Diamond Comics Distributors, "The Best Selling Comic of

7458-548: The alien Z'nox ). Venom , slighted at his rejection by the Six, hunted each of the team members. Refusing to be "the hunted", Alyosha trapped Venom with fire, but Venom seriously injured him and escaped. Alyosha then adopted a more relaxed, suave, and charismatic personality. As "Al," he began dating Timber Hughes, an aspiring actress who worked as a waitress at an all-villain bar. Al sought to help Timber's career in Hollywood by becoming

7571-570: The book, which would tie into Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. 's The Amazing Spider-Man series. Kraven the Hunter Kraven the Hunter ( Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff ; Russian : Сергей Николаевич Кравинов) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko , the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #15 (August 1964) as an adversary for

7684-446: The bottom of. Determined to end his life as he becomes older, frustrated with his failing health and continuing failure to defeat Spider-Man, Kraven sets out a final hunt for Spider-Man. After capturing Spider-Man, he shoots him with a coma-inducing drug and buries him alive on his estate. To complete his victory, he attempts to become Spider-Man's clear superior by impersonating him in a brutal vigilante campaign and capturing Vermin ,

7797-545: The captives, he is shown to lack a sense of control, attacking Ana until he is stabbed in the heart by Ana in self-defense. Sergei recovers, stating that Sasha restored him with corrupted blood or the "unlife" as he puts it. When the Kravinoff Family is defeated, Ana alongside the other Kravinoffs escapes to the Savage Land . After Sasha and Vladimir are killed by Kraven and Alyosha flees, she runs off to hunt Alyosha to prove herself to Kraven. She tells Kraven that if she can take down Alyosha, Kraven should train her and help rebuild

7910-513: The ceiling over him. Shriek then tells Kraven the Hunter that she can have Eddie Brock's head after the mission is done. As the Dinosaur People feed on the rats that enter their lair, Kraven the Hunter sneaks up on some Dinosaur People and kills them. Venom catches up to Kraven the Hunter and fights him and Shriek. With help from Tana, Venom stated that the Dinosaur People were not killing anybody and that they are only surviving underground. Kraven

8023-420: The chip would kill Curt. After Spider-Man finds the bodies of the guards that were killed when the Lizard escaped, he is confronted by Kraven the Hunter. Spider-Man figures out that Kraven was the one who killed the guards to frame the Lizard, as the wounds are too precise for the Lizard's feral claws. To guilt Spider-Man into becoming a hunter, Kraven attempts to force Spider-Man to watch the Lizard save Billy and

8136-408: The death of Vladimir. Unlike Vladimir, Alyosha was separated from his family and raised in an African jungle. After Kraven the Hunter's suicide, Alyosha came to New York City to investigate the father he barely knew. Dressed as Kraven, Alyosha confronted his uncle Dmitri Smerdyakov (AKA Chameleon). Believing his abusive half-brother had returned from the dead, Chameleon revealed to Alyosha much about

8249-417: The definitive Kraven the Hunter story, the story originally had a completely different character in Kraven's role. Writer DeMatteis recounted: As I was getting ready to work on the story, I was sitting in my office and looking through a Marvel Universe Handbook and came across the entry for Kraven the Hunter. To this day, I don't know if this was something that was established in continuity , or if whoever

8362-430: The departure of Latour and Rodriguez, Marvel launched a new series titled Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider , written by Seanan McGuire with pencils by Rosi Kämpe, and later Takeshi Miyazawa . After 10 issues, the series was relaunched as simply Ghost-Spider , which ended after an additional 10 issues. Under this creative team, stories featured Gwen Stacy traveling back and forth between her home dimension, in which her identity

8475-413: The dysfunctional Kravinoff family. Kraven's former lover Calypso Ezili did actually return from the dead and she mistook Alyosha for Kraven the Hunter. She seduced Alyosha, but afterwards he spurned her affections. Later, riding a bull elephant atop Manhattan 's rooftops, Alyosha attacked Spider-Man . He poisoned him with a hallucinogenic dart, but then set him free. While at the Kravinoff estate, Alyosha

8588-538: The end of 2005, Slott was assigned to write The Thing 's first solo series in 20 years. It was not a sales success, and was canceled with issue #8, despite Slott's attempts to rally readers in a campaign he called "Pull My Thing." The eight issues have been released in a trade paperback entitled Idol of Millions, which sees the Thing and other heroes fighting deadly roller-coasters and other machines in Arcade 's Murderworld. Slott

8701-479: The end, it is revealed that she is Kraven's daughter by a woman called Sasha Aleksandra Nikolaevich (also the mother of the deceased Vladimir Kravinoff ). She and her mother have recently set about forming an alliance of Spider-Man villains to get revenge on the wall-crawler and kidnap Madame Web . They also hired Deadpool to keep him distracted while they kidnapped Mattie Franklin . Ana and Sasha later meet up with Alyosha Kravinoff, who assists them in preparing for

8814-487: The events of Spider-Women, Gwen is left limited to seven temporary uses of her powers, which she can activate through a device on her wrist. She attends a rock concert with her friends, then visits the recently reconstructed Dollar Dog. While there, she is attacked by Frank Castle, and left with no other choice, uses one of her power-ups to take him down, before fleeing the scene, and spending the night at her father's place. The next day, Gwen and her father are attacked by Kraven

8927-450: The fact that he had given samples of the X-Men's DNA to Sinister for cloning, the lights went out on the wing where they were located. The hunter attacked and quickly dispatched Colossus , but was held at bay by Spider-Man's webbing. He broke free, claiming his name is Xraven . The X-Men quickly realize that Xraven has all of the powers of the original X-Men, while also sporting retractable claws, big hands and feet, fangs, and wings that have

9040-500: The first female to take on the name of Kraven the Hunter. She first appears tracking Spider-Man to his apartment, but mistakenly believes Peter Parker's roommate Vin Gonzales was him. She then methodically ruins Vin's life, and captures him. Despite Vin's claims that he was not Spider-Man, Kraven prepared to hunt him, but was stopped by the real Spider-Man, who was wearing Daredevil's costume (which had eyelids for him to be able to see). At

9153-452: The help of the Chameleon, who disguises himself as Kraven to use himself as a decoy while the real Kraven ambushes the hero. However, despite Kraven having weakened Spider-Man with a poisonous dart, Spider-Man prevails in the end. Spider-Man proves a frustrating quarry because Kraven continually underestimates the superhero's resourcefulness. Kraven becomes a founding member of the Sinister Six when he accepts Doctor Octopus 's offer to form

9266-410: The hunters". During the " Avengers: Standoff! " storyline, Kraven the Hunter was an inmate of Pleasant Hill, a gated community established by S.H.I.E.L.D. who used Kobik 's abilities to turn Kraven the Hunter into a zookeeper . He rallied some of his fellow inmates to help him find Kobik and bring her to Baron Helmut Zemo . During the "Opening Salvo" part of the " Secret Empire " storyline, Kraven

9379-464: The individual connects to the Hunter-Bot and if it is destroyed, then the individual is killed, which is what happens when the Vulture destroys Bob's Hunter-Bot. Kraven the Hunter plans this from the beginning to punish the hunters for killing animals for sport. Kraven the Hunter has Arcade tell the Vulture that there is a chance to break the force field by killing more Hunter-Bots. During a fight between

9492-500: The intent of killing him in exchange that he trains her to rebuild the Kravinoff Family. Alyosha was later confirmed to have been killed in the Savage Land by his sister Ana when she and their father returned from the Savage Land to hunt down Kaine in Houston , Texas . There was a third son named Nedrocci " Ned " Tannengarden who tried to kill Alyosha, but he was murdered by the Chameleon (who, during that time, believed himself to be

9605-470: The local squirrels, including Tippy-Toe . Kraven departs when Squirrel Girl informs him of the existence of sea monsters like Giganto and challenges him to hunt them, instead of limiting himself to going after the same prey he did prior to his resurrection. He later returns to abduct Howard the Duck , but gets trapped with Howard and Squirrel Girl in a manhunt as the hunted. After surviving, he vows to only "hunt

9718-408: The news of Dinosaur People being found beneath the streets of New York City, Mayor Wilson Fisk and NYPD Commissioner Chris Rafferty appointed Kraven the Hunter to lead a SWAT Team into the sewers and eliminate them. When Venom deactivated each trap and confronted Kraven, Venom was caught off-guard when Kraven the Hunter revealed his secret ally Shriek , who used her attacks on Venom and then collapsed

9831-448: The one foe Spider-Man had never been able to defeat on his own (Spider-Man's last battle with Vermin required Captain America 's assistance). After Spider-Man emerges from his grave two weeks later, Kraven explains his actions to him and sets Vermin free. Spider-Man goes after Vermin to prevent his killing again. Kraven leaves a final confession of his crimes against Spider-Man and then commits suicide. Because of his suicide, his soul

9944-620: The original Kraven the Hunter). It was revealed during 2009's X-Men /Spider-Man crossover miniseries that years earlier, Kraven made a deal with Mister Sinister . He and the Blob tracked down the X-Men, and they fought the united forces of Spider-Man and the original X-Men. Kraven fled after a short battle, but not before wounding each member of the X-Men. Kraven returned to Sinister, with genetic samples from Cyclops , Marvel Girl , Iceman , Angel , and Beast . Furthermore, Sinister requested from Kraven

10057-461: The physical appearance of a 30-year-old man. The potion enhances Kraven's sight, hearing, and smell to superhuman levels, adding to his already impressive tracking skills. He can see farther, and with much greater clarity, than a normal human. His hearing is similarly enhanced, enabling him to detect sounds which an ordinary human cannot, or sounds that a normal human could detect, but at much greater distances. Kraven can use his sense of smell to track

10170-470: The same as his father's. He was briefly involved with the Hobgoblin , even giving his identity of Jason Macendale his father's super-strength formula which reacted to the anomalies in his bloodstream which gave him greater power. This is perhaps the reason why Vladimir became more powerful than his father when he took the treatment. When he got out of jail, he decided to track Spider-Man down again only to fight

10283-669: The same move. Kraven the Hunter had different family members and clones. He even fathered several children who have followed in his footsteps: Vladimir Kravinoff was a son of Sergei Kravinoff, the infamous adversary of Spider-Man known as Kraven the Hunter. Unlike his illegitimate half-brother Alyosha Kravinoff who was raised in shame in Africa , Vladimir grew up in Russia benefiting from his father's wealth and luxuries. However, their father often neglected both sons while he pursued his various international quarries. Unaware of his siblings, Vladimir

10396-622: The scene, creating the public misconception that Spider-Woman has murdered Peter Parker and is a menace to society and setting up the Spider-Gwen series. Before the Spider-Verse event that introduced Spider-Gwen, Stacy's father George Stacy was ordered as captain of the NYPD to hunt down and detain Spider-Woman, considered a public menace. Captain Stacy—unaware of Spider-Gwen's secret identity—is more than happy to do so. Upon hearing about this,

10509-510: The sexualization with which he wrote the relationship between Peter Parker and Cindy Moon /Silk, an Asian character he co-created. Slott stated that while he was proud to have introduced her into the Marvel Universe, he admitted that having their attraction be derived from their pheromones was a "bad idea and a mistake", and that after listening to criticism by Asian readers, he came to feel that his depiction of her had "unintentionally played into racial stereotypes" and that "those story choices were

10622-673: The son of an aristocrat who fled to the United States with his family in 1917 after the Russian nobility was decimated by the February Revolution and subsequent collapse of the reign of Tsar Nicholas II . Kraven is a maniacal big-game hunter who seeks to defeat Spider-Man to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world. Unlike other hunters, he typically disdains the use of guns or bow and arrows , preferring to take down large dangerous animals with his bare hands. He also lives by

10735-472: The story for the Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game which was released in September 2010. In November 2010, Slott took over The Amazing Spider-Man as the sole writer, marking the comic book's change to a twice–monthly schedule, beginning with Slott's "Big Time" storyline. The "Big Time" storyline ended with The Amazing Spider-Man #700, its final issue. While that issue's story, which involved

10848-563: The switching of Peter Parker's mind with that of Doctor Octopus , and ended with the death of Parker in Doctor Octopus' body and Octopus remaining in Parker's, generated controversy among fans, including death threats for Slott, it won the 2012 Diamond Gem Award for Top Dollar Comic of the Year. The comic book went through five printings, The next month saw the premiere of a new series, The Superior Spider-Man , written by Slott, and featuring

10961-546: The tribesmen with her. He was later hired by the city of New York to help capture the Fantastic Four 's enigmatic enormous canid Puppy. Next, he was hired by White Wolf , head of the deposed Wakandan secret police, to capture Black Panther. Black Panther turned the battle around, nearly killing Alyosha. Sandman later invited Alyosha to join Sandman's Sinister Six to hunt Doctor Octopus and Senator Ward (the host body for

11074-608: The wild. When their identities became fractured after a temporary separation, the Hulk discovers that Bruce Banner had hired Kraven to find the lost city of the Sasquatches . Although the Hulk was uninterested with helping the Sasquatches deal with Kraven, he changes his mind and beats up Kraven. Kaine, in the alias of the Scarlet Spider , later encountered Kraven the Hunter, who was dressed as

11187-849: Was "Survival of the Hippest" in Mighty Mouse #10 and "To Bounce or Not to Bounce", an eight-page backup story in New Warriors Annual #1 both cover dated July 1991. He became the regular writer for Marvel's Ren & Stimpy comic book series with that series debut issue (Dec. 1992) and first wrote Spider-Man in an issue of Ren and Stimpy that saw Spider-Man in battle against the Powdered Toast Man . Following this, Slott wrote other children's comics, including DC's Scooby-Doo , Looney Tunes , and Powerpuff Girls . After work on Batman Adventures and Justice League Adventures , Slott

11300-412: Was a character I had never had any interest in whatsoever. I always thought he was one of the stupidest Spider-Man villains ever, but suddenly I had this whole new take on the character. Despite Kraven the Hunter being one of Spider-Man's most long-standing arch-enemies, DeMatteis claims that none of Marvel's editorial staff objected to the proposal to have him killed in the story. Kraven later returns as

11413-514: Was able to get DNA samples from Shadowcat, Colossus, Nightcrawler , and Wolverine . Returning to Mister Sinister with the samples, Mister Sinister tells him that he planned to clone a new generation of mutants, and that he would unite all mutantkind. After seeing what Sinister's real intentions were in Cyclops's memories, Xraven destroys the samples, claiming that Mister Sinister would breed slaves as opposed to warriors, and Xraven attacks him. Although it

11526-413: Was bitten by a radioactive spider. This granted her all of the quintessential Spider-Man powers, and Stacy began her career as Spider-Woman. In her regular life, she begins a relationship with Peter Parker, forms a friend group with Parker, and ostracizes new student Harry Osborn , who is later revealed to have had a crush on her. Meanwhile, Peter becomes infatuated with Spider-Woman without knowing that she

11639-618: Was given the chance to pitch a series for DC. The resulting miniseries was Arkham Asylum: Living Hell with artist Ryan Sook in 2003. In 2004 he wrote the "4th Parallel" storyline for the Justice League which introduced the Red King ; this story was published in 2007 in JLA Classified #32–36. Arkham Asylum ' s success led to Slott's return to Marvel in 2004 to launch a new She-Hulk series. The title focused on She-Hulk as

11752-423: Was introduced in "Spider-Verse" would be getting her own series after much demand. The first volume ended after the fifth issue with the character carrying over into the second volume of Spider-Verse as part of the " Secret Wars " storyline. After the conclusion of that storyline, a second volume by the same creative team began with issue #1 as a part of Marvel's All-New, All-Different Marvel imprint. Following

11865-469: Was learning about his father from Spider-Man when Calypso returned with Kraven's tribesmen. She set the home ablaze and killed all but Gulyadkin the Lion. Calypso poisoned Alyosha and Spider-Man and used her hypnotic powers to force the two to fight to the death. Spider-Man resisted and injured Calypso, while Alyosha subdued her with his lion. Despite asking for her forgiveness, Alyosha savagely killed Calypso and all

11978-406: Was murdered by a mysterious mutant hunter. His friend Ed (who had lost his powers) went to the X-Men for help. He claimed that the man who killed Buggs was Kraven the Hunter. Although they were skeptical about Kraven's apparent resurrection, the X-Men called on the help of Spider-Man, who had battled Kraven many times over the years. After discussing the battle that they had with Kraven years ago and

12091-526: Was owned by the Vatican Black Knight), Vulture , Mongoose , Man-Bull , Dragon Man , Swarm , Mandrill , Grizzly III , Frog-Man , and Rhino . In the end, the Punisher (whom Kraven referred to as "Tiny Monkey") managed to sabotage this zoo. Kraven himself escapes to the Savage Land . During " The Gauntlet " storyline, Alyosha returned to New York to help his half-sister Ana and stepmother Sasha in

12204-413: Was publicly known, and Earth-616 , in which she attends college. In 2022, a new limited series titled Spider-Gwen: Gwen-Verse by Tim Seeley and Jodi Nishijima was published, featuring Stacy traveling through time alongside alternative versions of herself (modeled after other Marvel heroes) to correct a disruption in the timeline. Before the beginning of Spider-Gwen , high school student Gwen Stacy

12317-568: Was raised by Sergei's servant Gregor who acted as a surrogate father teaching him Sergei's hunting techniques. When Vlad was still a boy, Sergei put his son through a rite of passage, hunting Vladimir while disguised as the fabled "Grim Hunter." Impressed by his son's abilities learned under Gregor, Sergei began to train Vlad personally. Vladimir Kravinoff took up the name " Grim Hunter " and decided to hunt down Spider-Man and several of his foes. He only had one battle with Spider-Man, and his methods were nearly

12430-562: Was really Ana's half-uncle Chameleon in disguise). The Kravinoffs manage to overpower them and make off with Anya and Arachne. After Chameleon sheds his disguise and Spider-Man partially succumbs to the drugs the Kravinoffs have given him, Ana is present when Kaine (dressed as Spider-Man) is killed as a sacrifice as part of a ritual that revives her father Sergei Kravinoff. Following the resurrection, Sergei gets acquainted with his family. When Kraven returns after preventing Vladimir from attacking

12543-416: Was the result of a test resurrection to see if she can revive Sergei. After Spider-Man defeated the Kravinoff family, they escaped to the Savage Land where Sergei killed Sasha (because she complained about being hunted to become a true Kravinoff) and euthanizes Vladimir (which Kraven does due "to respect for the dead"). Alyosha Kravinoff is a mutant who is the second Kraven the Hunter some time after

12656-539: Was the writer of Marvel's Avengers: The Initiative , which launched following the conclusion of the 2006–07 " Civil War " storyline. He was one of the four writers of the thrice-monthly The Amazing Spider-Man , a schedule which began in January 2008 following the controversial storyline " One More Day ". Slott took over writing duties on The Mighty Avengers after writer Brian Michael Bendis ' departure, starting with issue #21 and finishing with issue #36. Slott wrote

12769-472: Was writing the Handbook entry made it up, but they mentioned that Kraven was Russian . For me, a total Dostoyevsky fanatic, the idea that Kraven was Russian and had the same tortured, Russian soul that the great Dostoyevsky characters had, unlocked this door in my head and suddenly I had a new understanding of this character. I thought about Kraven and the forces that had driven him to be who and what he was. This

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