List of Spider-Man enemies
Name Alter ego First appearance
Prowler Hobie Brown The Amazing Spider-Man # 78 ( November 1969 )
Punisher Frank Castle The Amazing Spider-Man # 129 ( February 1974 )
Rocket Racer Robert Farrell The Amazing Spider-Man # 172 ( September 1977 )
Black Cat Felicia Hardy The Amazing Spider-Man # 194 ( July 1979 )
Puma Thomas Fireheart The Amazing Spider-Man # 256 ( September 1984 )
Silver Sable Silver Sablinova The Amazing Spider-Man # 265 ( June 1985 )
Humbug Buck Mitty Web of Spider-Man # 19 ( October 1986 )
Solo James Bourne Web of Spider-Man # 19 ( October 1986 )
Cardiac Elias Wirtham The Amazing Spider-Man # 344 ( December 1990 )
Kaine Kaine Parker Web of Spider-Man # 119 ( December 1994 )
Reformed super villain / anti-hero opponents
Almost all the characters listed first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man with the exception of Kaine and Humbug first appearing in Web of Spider-Man . The Prowler is the oldest character appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man in the 1960s in the Silver Age . Many other anti-heroes were introduced in the 1970s in between the Silver Age and the Bronze Age while Humbug was introduced in the 1980s right around the start of the Modern Age . Kaine is the youngest debuted character while Cardiac is the second youngest . Both Kaine and Cardiac appeared around the 1990s .
Spider-Man is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Universe debuting in the anthology comic book series issue Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) in the Silver Age of Comics published by Marvel Comics. After his debut he would get his own comic book entitled The Amazing Spider-Man. The comic book series would introduce many of what would become his major supervillain adversaries. Spider-Man would then be popular enough for more Spider-Man comic spinoffs (The Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel Team-Up, Web of Spider-Man, etc.) which introduced more recurring enemies of the web-slinger. As with Spider-Man, the villains' powers originate with scientific accidents or the misuse of scientific technology and also tend to have animal-themed costumes or powers (Vulture, Doctor Octopus, Beetle, Lizard, Rhino, Scorpion, Jackal and Black Cat). There also are supervillains with the powers over the elements (Sandman, Shocker, Electro, Molten Man and Hydro-Man), some that are horror-themed (the Goblins, Morbius, Morlun, and the Symbiotes) some that are crime lords (Kingpin, Tinkerer, Tombstone, Hammerhead, Silvermane and Mister Negative), and some that are masters of trickery and illusion (Chameleon and Mysterio). These villains oftentimes form teams such as the Sinister Six to oppose the superhero. The rogues gallery of Spider-Man has garnered positive critical acclaim and has been considered as one of the greatest rogues galleries of all time.