There was a time when villains were not intricate. They lacked depth and dimension. They lacked innovation and like most things in earlier times, even their names lacked a creative, dare I say it, spark. Such was the case of Electro. A simple name and a simple power, over all electricity. Electricity?! C’mon. Make him nuclear, atomic, intergalactic, something with a real, dare I say this now, charge. Arguably lame? Possibly. Memorable and classic, however? Definitely. He first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #9 and possessed a newfound power that even made Peter Parker’s radioactive strength no match for him. Because when Max Dillon traded in his inferiority complex for a dose of AC/DC, discovering the powers of electricity in a way Ben Franklin could not have imagined, he became a deadly enemy in the Spider-Man mythos. Garbed in green and yellow, he ran like a current through the career of the world’s favorite wall-crawler and even managed to harass Daredevil on occasion. A good example is Daredevil #87 where DD warns everyone not to even touch Electro or they’ll die. Proving that while some of these older villains may not be intricate creations, they weren’t any less deadly. Notably, in the 1960’s Spider-Man series, which is a classic within the web-head’s world, many famous and not-so-famous villains made appearances but when Electro made his entrance as the villain, it always gave the show a little more, here we go again . . . juice. He was the bad guy with an equally bad attitude. And Electro, while a simple, basic villain, was just . . . cool.
James Parducci is the creator of the comic series Nighthunter. He has been published in multiple periodicals and runs his own freelance writing business in San Diego.
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