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| Dr. Farley Stillwell | |
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Farley Stillwell as seen in Amazing Spider-Man #20.
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Amazing Spider-Man #20 (1965) |
| Created by | Stan Lee Steve Ditko |
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| Alter ego | Farley Stillwell |
| Species | Human |
| Abilities | Genius-level intellect |
Farley Stillwell is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a scientist best known for transforming Mac Gargan into the Scorpion.
Stillwell first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #20 and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
When J. Jonah Jameson first hired Peter Parker, he was amazed at how he managed to obtain pictures of Spider-Man. He hired private investigator Mac Gargan to look into this. When 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 crackpot, 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. Stillwell gave Gargan a high-tech scorpion-suit, and the Scorpion was born. Shortly after the experiment, Stillwell 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 Farley Stillwell had a brother named Harlan Stillwell who used the experiment to create the Human Fly after being held at gunpoint by Richard Deacon. After Richard became the Human Fly, he shot Harlan.[2]
The Stillwell brothers' technology would also later be used to give superpowers to the Answer,[3] and the fourth Vulture.[4]
The sixth volume of Amazing Spider-Man officially confirmed that Regent's minion Shannon Stillwell is the sister of Farley Stillwell and Harlan Stillwell. In addition, their mother is a scientist who goes by the name of Madame Monstrosity. She is served by the Humanimals Mr. Rooster, Mr. Cricket, Hogsworth, and Tabby. They discuss how Farley and Harlan using her pilfered work that cost them their lives when cautioning Shannon on using her mother's work. After mentioning how her works have been misused and altered which led to the creations of Lizard, Morbius, the Living Vampire, and Rhino, Madame Monstrosity tells Shannon that someone else is making use of her breakthrough in her Humanimals project as she plans to go after Spider-Boy upon seeing him on the front page of the morning newspaper.[5]
Farley Stillwell is a brilliant biologist and cyberneticist.[1]
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