Silvio Manfredi

Silvio Manfredi is a Marvel crime figure who slithered out of the Bronze Age in 1979, introduced in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #13 by the formidable creative team of Marv Wolfman and John Byrne — a pedigree that signals this was no throwaway villain. Over nearly five decades of publication, he's carved out a persistent place in Spider-Man's corner of the Marvel universe, haunting the streets of The Amazing Spider-Man and The Spectacular Spider-Man across 69 catalog appearances and three collector-significant key issues. The company he keeps tells you everything about the world he inhabits — sharing pages with the likes of Wilson Fisk, Hammerhead, and Lonnie Lincoln, Silvio Manfredi moves in the most dangerous underworld circles New York's comics have to offer. For fans who love the gritty, street-level crime drama that makes Spider-Man's world so richly textured, Manfredi is exactly the kind of enduring figure worth tracking down.