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Villain and failed spellcheck

Imported from an older blog; refers to Sensational Spider-Man #30 from November 2006

We have our first German bad guy, garnished with a great dose of WTF. Sure won't be the last, but might be the weirdest: a man-shaped swarm of "bees and wasps controlled by a dead Nazi scientist's reanimated skeleton."

For a bit of nitpicking on a different topic, let's look at two narration boxes near the beginning:

"Before he was a super-villain, before he was a telephone-wire repairman, Dillon dreamed about being an artist."

"(The same way a young German man named Adolph once did.)"

Assuming that's supposed to refer to Hitler, the spelling's wrong - his first name was Adolf.
Arguably it's also a factual error: He was still Austrian when a young man trying to get accepted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. (Vienna's the capital of Austria.)

Blog tags: Germany in Comics