Wild Card

Origin

Wild Card first appearsmaking a bid to add his services to the on-going gang war. He attacks several of the Black Tarantula’s hench men as a means of proving his useful skills that are for hire. By-stander Man Mountain Marko attempts to recruit Wild Card to Don “Silverback” Silvio’s side of the gang war. Marko tasks Wild Card with taking out Spider-Girl as means of proving his loyalty.

Creation

Wild Card was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz and first appeared in digital form in Spectacular Spider-Girl issue 11 (2010). His first printed appearance was in Web of Spider-Man vol.2 issue 7 (2010), which saw the digital story (re)printed on paper.

Major Story Arcs

Versus Spider-Girl?

Wild Card encounters Spider-Girl along the New York rooftops and attacks her with his array of gadget cards. During the encounter Wild Card reveals he has intimate knowledge about Spider-Girl’s polarized mask lenses and her spider-sense.

Wild Card defeats Spider-Girl by use of a specially designed gadget card that attacks her spider-sense and immobilizes her. Wild Card leaves Spider-Girl claiming to be a professional who doesn’t kill for free. It was later revealed during the second battle with Spider-Girl, that Wild Card was in fact her father, Peter who used the identity with the help of Normie Osborn to keep Spider-Girl out of the gang war and allow Peter to stop it from the inside. However, May destroyed most of the costume after their second battle.