Farley Stillwell

Dr. Farley Stillwell

Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance The Amazing Spider-Man #20 (1965)
Created by Stan Lee
Steve Ditko
In-story information
Species Human
Abilities Scientific genius

Farley Stillwell is a fictional scientist in the Marvel Comics universe.

Contents

Fictional character biography

When J. Jonah Jameson first hired Peter Parker, he was amazed at how he managed to obtain the pictures. He hired private investigator Mac Gargan to look into this. When J. Jonah Jameson saw an article about inducing animal mutations into humans, he visited the scientist that established this experiment: Dr. Farley Stillwell. Jameson first thought Stillwell was a crack-pot, but later saw him as an opportunity to take down Spider-Man. When he first went to see Dr. Stillwell in his lab, Jameson had him experiment on Gargan. Farley gave Gargan a high-tech scorpion-suit, and the Scorpion was born.[1]

Shortly after the experiment, Farley ran some tests and found that his experiment wasn't a true success. He discovered that Scorpion would lose his sanity as he got stronger. Creating an antidote, Stillwell headed to where Spider-Man was fighting the Scorpion. Upon learning the side effects of the formula from Stillwell, Scorpion didn't want to lose his powers and climbed up a building. Stillwell went up after him and lost his grip. As he fell, Dr. Stillwell threw the serum at Gargan in a vain attempt to cure him. He missed and fell to his death.[1]

It was later revealed that he had a brother named Harlan Stillwell who used the experiment to create the Human Fly.[2]

Other versions

House of M

In a flashback, Dr. Farley Stillwell was among the scientists who experimented on Luke Cage.[3]

In other media

Television

Video games

References

  1. ^ a b Amazing Spider-Man #20
  2. ^ Amazing Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 #10
  3. ^ House of M: Avengers #1
  4. ^ Tom Harvey, voicechasers.com, retrieved 23 Jan 2010
  5. ^ Dr. Farley Stillwell, IMDb, retrieved 17 Jan 2010

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