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Starling

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Official Site: Marvel

The Vulture is an alias used by fictional supervillain appearing in American comic book published by Marvel Comics. The first and most well-known incarnation Adrian Toomes is a maniacal madman with little to no remorse for human life who wears a suit allowing him to fly, and is a recurring enemy of the superhero Spider-Man as well as one of the founding members of the Sinister Six supervillain team. Other characters have assumed the Vulture alias in comics over the years.

The character has been adapted from the comic in various Spider-Man television series and video games. Michael Keaton portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).

The original incarnation, Adrian Toomes, first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #2 (May 1963), and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. According to Ditko, Lee wanted the villain to be heavy-set and based on actor Sydney Greenstreet. Ditko designed him to be leaner and more gaunt, feeling he should be swift and fast and also because "The bulkier anything is, the more panel space it has to take up, thereby shrinking panel space for other characters and story panel elements."

Afterwards, there have been several iterations of Vulture. The second incarnation, Blackie Drago, first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #48 (May 1967), and was created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. Lee created the new version because he thought that Spider-Man looked like a bully fighting a wizened old man. However, the readers wrote in that they did not like the new Vulture, and Lee relented and brought the original back.

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