Evolution of Electro

Electro (Maxwell “Max“ Dillon) (/ɪˈlɛktroʊ/) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, he was introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man *9* (Feb. 1964) as an adversary to the superhero Spider-Man. Electro has since endured as one of the web-slinger’s most prominent foes, though he has also come into conflict with other heroes, most notably Daredevil. He is a founding member of the Sinister Six, and the leader of the original incarnation of the Emissaries of Evil, the first supervillain teams to oppose Spider-Man and Daredevil, respectively. In the original version of the story, Max Dillon was a lineman for an electric company who turned to a life of crime after being struck by lightning while working on a power line and becoming a living electric capacitor. Electro’s superpowers revolve around controlling electricity, which he can absorb to “charge“ himself and become more powerful, gai
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