Hitler did not have a daughter. following Regent conquering the world, where part of it became the Battleworld domain of The Regency. [23], Marko boards with the Cassadas and teams with Spider-Man against the Enforcers. His attire consists of a green striped shirt over a white shirt, brown pants with a belt, and shoes. With Haylie Duff, Tobin Bell, Shaun Sipos, Shae Smolik. He has been connected to the murder of Peter Parker's uncle Ben in the first film, after it was assumed that his comrade, Dennis Carradine, committed the murder. People generally perceive him as wearing a style of dress appropriate to their region and era. He accompanied the Sinister Six in a plot to steal a decommissioned S.H.I.E.L.D. [25] Doctor Octopus coerces him to rejoin the Sinister Six, but Marko turns against them. Every time he is done controlling them, he puts them back in their containment cells. [72], There, he meets fellow genetically altered criminals Norman Osborn (the Green Goblin), Dr. Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus), Max Dillon (Electro) and Kraven the Hunter. In the storyline "Sandblasted", in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #17–19 (April–June 2007), the Sandman asks Spider-Man to help him redeem his father, who has been charged with and imprisoned for murdering a homeless man. [11][12] The Sandman escapes by getting through his window after turning himself to sand, but is recaptured by the Human Torch after the Torch lures the Sandman to a building by disguising himself as Spider-Man, then activating the sprinkler system. • The Sandman appears in the 1967 Spider-Man animated series episode "Sands of Crime", voiced by Tom Harvey. Originally Spider-Man believed Keemia would be handed to her grandmother, but instead she was sent to a foster home by Child Protective Services. When the Mad Thinker goes after Electro, the Sandman violently attacks him, claiming that he did not want to lose any more friends. The Superior Spider-Man has been temporarily controlling their minds in order to redeem them for their crimes. There was once a poor peasant and his wife who had a very beautiful daughter named Sunev. Do you think Sandman has what it takes to be a Guardian? 2. Katherine is missing! His illegal activity increases in depth and scope, turning him into a violent, bitter man. Unknown Morpheus usually appears as a tall, thin man with bone-white skin, black hair, and two distant stars looking out from the shadows where his eyes should be. Whilst he cannot externally change into sand, he can alter his internal physiology, and, as Spider-Man noted, his skin can feel like granite. Flint works for Hammerhead. As such he abandons the Six and assists Spider-Man in defeating the tyrants. He sat on a bed and hugged himself as a team of doctors, or TV-men in doctor suits, asked, again and again, if he knew why this had happened. Flint Marko) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. You're signed out. More often than not in combat, this ability enables him to absorb most blows with little to no ill effect other than reforming himself, a relatively fast action. At 3,400 degrees Fahrenheit his body turns into glass, also a form he can control. However, although sent to guard a facility in the Sahara Desert giving him complete control of the largest body of sand in the world, he is defeated by Spider-Man, the Black Widow and Silver Sable when Spider-Man identifies and isolates the one grain of sand that contains his conscious mind. The character has been adapted into various other media incarnations of Spider-Man. Under the Green Goblin's and Doctor Octopus's leadership, they break free and capture Spider-Man. Impressed, he calls himself the Sandman after his new powers. His first appearance has him coming to the rescue of Spider-Man and Silver Sable, who are outnumbered and surrounded by the Sinister Syndicate. The daughter was thrilled, as her father was going with her this year. [21] Months later, the supervillains manage to separate themselves and go their separate ways. [9], In preparatory school, a boy named Vic bullied Baker until he learned to fight using an opponents' motions against themselves, a technique he performed as if he "slipped through their fingers like sand". However, Hammerhead betrayed him which lead to him and Keemia being transformed into sand people. [55], It has been revealed that, while the Sandman can absorb and lose sand, his body must retain one key particle of sand that contains his conscious mind, allowing Spider-Man to defeat him once by isolating that one grain from the rest of the Sandman (although the difficulty involved in setting up these events in the first place makes it impractical to use regularly).[42]. As the Sandman, Flint's being is completely made of sand. He can change his structure to make himself bigger or smaller and can shift his weight make him stronger. The Thing, after an aborted attempt to fight Baker, urges him to straighten himself out and use his ability to do good. [volume & issue needed]. Her crimson eyes, the same color of blood, glinted in the moonlight. [48], During the "Secret Wars" storyline, the Sandman is among the villains at the Kingpin's viewing party of the incursion between Earth-616 and Earth-1610. He ended up being accidentally struck with lightning by Electro, temporarily turning him into fulgurite. At the time, the Discovery Channel had already announced renewal of The Devils Ride for a second season, and production was scheduled to start soon. All the zombies fall, destroyed from within. Flint Marko, also known as Sandman, is the secondary antagonist of the 2007 film Spider-Man 3. [22] The story continues when he meets with the Thing for a second time to see a sports game. Writer Roy Thomas later commented, "I've been pleased to see Sandman's gradual redemption, whose seeds perhaps I helped plant in that story. He does this by forcing them do heroic deeds against their will, some of which almost get some of them killed. His body and the radioactive sand bond, changing Marko's molecular structure into sand. Upon reaching Dixon's cell, the Sandman turns on and incapacitates him and his followers. [18], In time the Sandman discovers—-starting with his hands—-that his body can transform into glass and back again. Marko participates with the group in an attack on the White House. "AXIS: Revolutions", Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, "50 Greatest Friends and Foes of Spider-Man: Villains #10–7", "Marvel Animation Age Presents: Spider-Man", "Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Saturday, February 2, 2008", "Marvel Animation Age – The Marvel Animation News Resource", "Marvel's Animated Spider-Man Voice Cast and Premiere Date", "Confirmed: Spider-Man: Far From Home's Elemental Villains Based on B-List Villains", "Who Are the Elementals in SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME? She was led to believe that she was their actual child. He can will his body to be hardened, compacted, dispersed or shaped, or a combination of those qualities, an Earth manipulation of sand and rock particles. When the Mad Thinker and the Wizard are unable to find a solution to counter this and the Sandman is hospitalized after collapsing, he is visited by Spider-Man, who took him to the beach that the Sandman visited in his childhood and stayed with him until his body broke down. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. Male 21 June 2010. What are the characteristics of a Guardian? The web-slinger later confronts Sandman to clear his name and defeats him at a quarry. [39], In Big Time, he is part of the new Sinister Six along with Mysterio, the Rhino, Doctor Octopus, the Chameleon and Electro. See what happened when he ... including a number of herself side-by-side with the Sandman. [8], William Baker was born in Queens, New York. His body takes on sand's chemical qualities, impervious to many, but not all, elements. The late Heath Ledger was considered for the role of Eddie Brock/Venom before Topher Grace was cast. After this Marko resurfaces as a member of the Sinister Six, led by Doctor Octopus. During the showdown between rebellious citizens at the Mayor's tower, the Sandman encounters his super-powered daughter, Susie, but loses her due to wounds inflicted by the police. After that happened, Spider-Man discovered that the Sandman did not die and that he lost the ability to assume a human shape, where he now sports a blob-shaped body. After Spider-Man defeats Venom and Sandman comes back, he is reunited with Penny and apologizes to Spider-Man for attacking since if he didn't, Venom would've killed his daughter. [66], In the Marvel Noir universe, the Sandman exists, and exhibits slightly different powers than the one in the mainstream Universe. This section lists the known relatives of Sandman: There have been some other characters in Marvel Comics that have been named the "Sandman": Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four, a sequel to Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602 written by Peter David, features the 1602 version of the Marvel Sandman. [42] Spider-Man and Silver Sable then violently interrogate the Sandman to reveal all of Doctor Octopus' secrets to them. The Sandman attempts to rise to attack, but Spider-Man shoots him using the Shocker's vibrational air-blasts. After the battle, S.H.I.E.L.D. [19] He battles Wonder Man but is cured of his cancer by radiation. Osborn then blackmails Peter into joining the team, forming the Ultimate Six. [62] When Spider-Man exposes himself and is attacked by the Sinister Six, the Sandman appears and tries to convince Spider-Man to follow him, but Spider-Man does not listen and assume the Sandman is part of the Six. He battles Spider-Man inside an airtight metal box, which is activated when Spider-Man touches a card saying where the Vulture is, but the Sandman is defeated due to Spider-Man having stronger lungs than he does. The suit, like the Sandman's usual "clothes", changed into sand with him. The Sandman allied himself with the rebel forces at S.H.I.E.L.D. Both the Sandman and the Trapster are crushed by falling debris when Bensaylum collapses. This change proved incompatible to what many fans had thought Sandman had become, a hero. He is later congratulated by Uatu the Watcher for his great help. Screwing up my courage to the uttermost, I cautiously peeped out. On October 8, 2013, just two days before his 44th birthday, Sandman served alongside Captain John Price, John "Soap" MacTavish, Simon "Ghost" Riley, Gary "Roach" Sanderson and Derek "Frost" Westbrook in a joint Task Force 141/Delta Force mission in the Ukraine, codenamed "Operation Kingfish". As he wanted to go with the more 'realistic' feel of the Ultimate imprint, he doubted whether Flint Marko's clothing had unstable molecules like his body. The Sandman returned in "Spider-Man: The Gauntlet" storyline, which redefined the character and his powers/mental state. [71], In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, Flint Marko is a genetic mutation created by industrialist Justin Hammer who attempts to recreate the Super Soldier Serum. Nathanael recalls his childhood terror of the legendary Sandman, who was said to steal the eyes of children who would not go to bed and feed them to his own children who lived in the moon. The Guardians, Book 4: The Sandman and the War of Dreams By William Joyce Discussion Questions 1. After Vic incurs a large gambling debt to a mobster, he begs Flint to fix a football game he bet on to pay off his debt. Spider-Man arrived to confront the Sandman, ultimately using the Sandman's mental instability to free his captives and cause him to explode. After Zombie Spider-Man teleports into this reality, the Kingpin sends the Six to fight "Spider-Man". Helicarrier. [69], The Sandman makes a cameo in Mini-Marvels when he attacks Spider-Man and the Team Poder while they were playing in a sandbox. The Sandman (William Baker, a.k.a. While he physically resembles Flint Marko, he has the pale skin and glowing eyes of Gaiman's Morpheus. [37], During the "Origin of the Species" storyline, the Sandman is among the supervillains invited by Doctor Octopus to join his villains' team where he becomes involved in a plot to receive a reward and securing some specific items for him. The other five members are violently killed by the Zombie Spider-Man and the Sandman flees, later encountering and killing his own reality's Spider-Man out of fear by forcing his own sand body mass down Spider-Man's throat and causing his stomach to bloat to massive proportions before violently exploding out of his chest. [32], The machine worked too well and the Sandman went about reforming the Sinister Six to destroy both Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus, only to be double-crossed by Venom, who the Sandman recruited as the sixth member of the team. The Sandman claimed Madison’s dad as a victim, along with a lot of other people, it would seem. In 2009, the Sandman was ranked as IGN's 72nd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.[1]. He steals a diamond, for which Spider-Man is framed, and demands a $1,000,000 ransom. As the Guardians know quite well, Pitch's cunning and evil are boundless- and now it seems he may no longer be working solo. [2][3][4] The character returned in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 and The Amazing Spider-Man #18-19, and was soon depicted in other comics, such as The Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four, with the help of a few other superheroes, defeat the group. Flint Marko (also known as Sandman) was a henchman for the criminal, Hammerhead. Baker was tormented by an older student named Vic. Mutated Human Perhaps he started over somewhere else, but that also means not seeing his daughter … [44] The Sandman, the Chameleon, Electro, Mysterion (an impersonator of Mysterio), and the Vulture are later seen as part of a team led by the Superior Spider-Man called the "Superior Six". [38] Spider-Man goes on a rampage against all the villains after the Chameleon stole the infant and tricked him into believing it had died. He lost himself happily in sand sculptures, a craft he would use in secondary school under the encouragement of his teacher (and first crush), Miss Flint. Given his deep regret over Uncle Ben’s death and that his only purpose when stealing was helping his daughter (as he saw no way out of the situation), it’s unlikely that he continued on that path after Spider-Man 3. [70] He later joined the Sinister Swine and was turned to glass. [73], Artist Mark Bagley, who drew the first 100+ issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, noted in his rough designs for the Ultimate Sandman that he would appear "naked" most of the time. ... but his daughter got really ill. Flint hits his ex-coach, resulting in his expulsion from school and the beginning of his life of crime. Of course his world comes crashing down before his eyes after a tragedy, but what happens when things didn't happen the way he thought? The Sandman has also been an enemy of the Fantastic Four, and a founding member of the supervillain team, the Sinister Six. Death's Daughter Chapter 1, a Harry Potter + Hell Girl Crossover fanfic | FanFiction. Spider-Man defeats Marko with a vacuum cleaner and hands it over to the police. The Sandman's powers have evolved to where he can create duplicates of himself who have their own personalities and, to Marko's shock, claim they committed the murders. A major focu… Sandman is seen as a tragic villain because he is portrayed as decent, understandable and honorable. After hearing them argue, Penny c… However, Spider-Man collapses the floor of the building which falls into the water. They are captured by Regent and he reads the Sandman's mind to find out S.H.I.E.L.D's location. A shapeshifter endowed through an accident with the ability to turn himself into sand, he started out as a recurring adversary to the superhero Spider-Man, but has been slowly redeemed over time, eventually becoming an antihero. I am the Sandman's Daughter Often, I can't sleep at night. The Chameleon 2211 kills the Uncle Ben who the Hobgoblin 2211 brought from an alternate universe[35] and had been posing as him after that. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [47], Inspired by the heroism of the villains who had their moralities inverted by the events of "AXIS", the Sandman rejoins one of his old gangs and breaks into Ryker's Island in search of the group's leader Dixon. The Sandman was standing before my father in the middle of the room, the light of the candles shone full upon his face. However, he can be a bit aggressive if pushed to it. The coach taunts Baker, telling him that he will accomplish nothing of importance in his life. Once, cement's ingredients were mixed into Sandman. At the dock, the Sandman, along with the Shocker and the Enforcers, are hiding. https://marvels-spiderman-2017.fandom.com/wiki/Sandman?oldid=10929, Flint Marko's character in the series almost mirrors, Flint's voice actor, Travis Willingham, previously did the voice of. ... Luna never knew what happened next because her mother snatched her away while the battle ... On the floor, curled up in a ball, lay the exhausted Sandman. While on the run from the police after escaping from prison, he accidentally falls into an experimental particle accelerator that molecularly binds him with sand, giving him shape-shifting sand abilities. The second thing that happens was that this girl was young. ... the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman teamed up with Jack Frost to fight the Bogeyman. Keemia, blaming her father for what happened to her, partnered with Hammerhead, who used his wealth and resources to help Keemia control her powers. The Sandman began to disintegrate, then flowed down a drain, and then washed up onto and into a beach. [volume & issue needed], In Spider-Man: Reign, the Sandman is a part of an elderly Sinister Six which is under the control of the tyrannical power structure running New York. Vic and his buddies eventually befriended Baker. Hair color [34], The Sandman is one of the villains recruited to recover the Identity Disc, but during its recovery seemingly he is killed in a mutiny. Flint Marko became an associate of the mob boss Hammerhead to be able to provide a better life for his daughter. However, he can have a hard time maintain his form and can be washed away with water. Robert "Sandman" Johnston may be a real-life son of anarchy.. "They called the board my Stradivarius," Sims said of his sandbox. infiltrates Hammer's factory to obtain experiments Hammer had been working on. The more he incorporates (nearby) sand grains and rock granules into his body, the more those qualities are enhanced. The six villains are repelled. Marko couldn't attain a true human form until Spider-Man experimented on a small sample of his sandy form. Upon his final death, Zombie Spider-Man thanks the Sandman for avenging Aunt May and Mary Jane, to which the Sandman replies, "Good riddance, ya disgusting freak". That mixture turned him into cement that dried, rendering him immobile. An accident merges the two villains into a monster called the Mud-Thing. [20], Afterward, he allies himself with Hydro-Man to battle their mutual enemy, Spider-Man. [36] Spider-Man sneaks away and uses a fan to obliterate the Sandmen. In reality, she was the daughter of the Fury -- a war-time ally of the JSA and the Golden-Age Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyta, who eventually lost control of herself due to the mystical powers of the ancient Furies. My daughter was walking through the cemetery at Fort Supply and she knew I would be interested in a couple of Cheyenne graves she found there. He contracts cancer and takes over a medical research center, battling the Hulk again. While investigating a series of murders and a missing girl named Keemia Alvarado, whose mother is a victim of those murders, Spider-Man traces the murders and the abduction to the Sandman, the girl's father, who is hiding on Governor's Island with Keemia. Nevertheless, Spider-Man got the upper hand when the alien substance known as V-252 bonded to him and enhanced his already-superhuman abilities. In a story with the Wizard, the Wizard fashioned Sandman a green suit with a belt that contained three buttons that allowed various chemicals to mix into the Sandman's body to enable him to change himself into consistencies related to sand. Flint puts a large amount of letters under her pillow. Characters information This double almost kills them all. Decades later, the Sandman is infused with a nanite cure developed by Tony Stark and the Zombie Spider-Man that incorporates Wolverine's healing factor, which allows him to safely confront the zombies. His hair, vaguely clownish, is golden and short, styled into five points, and glitters like his sand. But there issomeone who has... Meet the newest Guardian, Sanderson Mansnoozie. The Sandman went after Spider-Man for Menace's infant, believing that Doctor Octopus would reward him by reuniting him with Keemia. One day, Marko took his daughter, "An A-Z Compendium of Earth's Mightiest Heroes", Frank Barbiere (w), Victor Santos (p), Victor Santos (i), Lauren Affe (col), VC's Travis Lanham (let), Jake Thomas and Daniel Ketchum (ed). "Nothing Can Stop...The Sandman! [54], Although he is invulnerable to most physical attacks, even projectiles because they pass through him, water is a different story. [43], Following the "Dying Wish" storyline, the Sandman's captive form is later stolen from the Baxter Building by the Superior Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus' mind in Spider-Man's body) where he takes him to his underwater lab. [45] They eventually break free of the Superior Spider-Man's control and attempt to exact revenge on the wall-crawler, while nearly destroying New York in order to do so. He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox of his own construction, and acquired his nickname from the sand he sprinkled to alter and amplify the sound of his dance steps. Carlie Cooper is exonerated upon being under police suspicion for tampering with the murder evidences, but the Sandman is still at large. Eventually he ends up in prison on Ryker's Island where he meets his father, Floyd Baker. He tells Floyd his nickname, Flint, and a false surname, Marko, inspired by his former coach's taunts about not "making a mark" on the world. A few years later, while Penny is asleep, her father, after breaking out of jail, comes in through the window. [volume & issue needed], The time trapped with Hydro-Man caused Marko to question his bad life choices. Meanwhile, the Crime-Master fatally shot the Big Man, and realized too late that it was his girlfriend Janice Foswell -- daughter of the original Big Man -- the heroes were shocked to learn that the Crime-Master was the son of the original and through a cruel twist of fate both decided to take up the identities of their parents in an attempt to get revenge from Spider-Man. [14], After Spider-Man defeats Marko numerous times, Marko diverts his attention to other superheroes. The Sandman first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #4 (Sept. 1963), created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko as an adversary of Spider-Man. Flint Marko became an associate of the mob boss Hammerhead to be able to provide a better life for his daughter. Sandman [26] Sandman also appears as part of the Outlaws, a group of reformed Spider-Man enemies, such as the Prowler, the Rocket Racer, the Puma and the Will o' the Wisp, that on occasion that would aid Spider-Man. Family [volume & issue needed], A version of the Sandman similar to a past version of his 616 counterpart appears as part of a version of the Sinister Six. [volume & issue needed], The Sandman's body and mind are scattered throughout the beach. However, she does not return the feeling and blames her father for her mutation, even going as far as trying to kill him. He can turn himself into a sandstorm, which enables him to fly great distances and to suffocate his enemies. This is shown when he tried to help his daughter Keemia and feels guilt for her mutation. [volume & issue needed], In Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #12, the Sandman appears as a manatee called the Sandmanatee.
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