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Attributes

Height: 5'8" (original) 6'4" (recent clone)

Weight: Average

Eyes: Black

Hair: Green

Features: Fuzzy green body hair

Summary

Created By: Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia, David Hunt

Real Name: Professor Miles Warren

Current Aliases: None

Former Aliases: None

Dual Identity: Not widely known

Current Occupation: Dead

Former Occupation: College Lecturer

Citizenship: U.S. Citizen

Legal Status: No criminal record

Place of Birth: Unknown

Marital Status: Married

Known Relatives: Mr. Warren (brother, seen in Untold Tales of Spider-Man), Monica Warren (wife, deceased, WoSM #125), Unnamed daughter (deceased, WoSM #125), Unnamed son (deceased, WoSM #125)

Known Confidants: Jack, pint-sized Jackal clone.

Known Allies: Jack, Punisher, Grizzly, Hammerhead, Spider-Cide, Judas Traveller and his allies.

Major Enemies: Spider-Man, Kaine

Usual Bases: None

Former Bases: Various Laboratories

Current Groups: None

Former Groups: None

Education: Doctorate

Powers & Paraphenalia

Strength Level: Above average human (original) Super-Human (recent clone)

Powers: Extraordinary speed and reactions

Abilities: Jackal has performed a significant number of cloning experiments with varying degrees of success. He also can transplant memories, and can plant lasting hypnotic suggestions.

Equipment: Scientific equipment used to perform the above.

Weapons: Drug-tipped claws, nerve gas bombs.

Limitations: Completely insane.

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Background

His life fell apart, and only his work gave him any comfort at all, minor though it was. His life was a deep black hole, until a pretty new student named Gwen Stacy entered his life. He quickly fell in love with her and was devestated when she was killed after being kidnapped by the Green Goblin. Warren grieved deeply for Gwen, until the next day, when his assistant, Anthony Serba, rushed into his office to tell him that he had just sucessfully cloned a frog. Seeing his chance to right a wrong, Miles gave Serba tissue samples taken from Gwen during an earlier experiment, telling him that they were rat cells. A month later, Serba ran to Warren to tell him that the clones were human and had to be destroyed immediately. Panicing, the professor covered Serba's mouth to shut him up, and accidentally suffocated him.

He disposed of the body, all the while telling himself that he couldnt have killed Anthony, it had to be somebody else. Walking past a class, he heard the professor describe the jackal as a "cowardly predator" and Miles blamed Anthony's death on the Jackal. Miles worked diligently over the next months, working on creating the Gwen Stacy clone and honing his body to peak human perfection. Before wiping her memory and hypnotising her, he promised Gwen that he would find the man that had killed her and that she would witness his death. All the while he threw various supervillains at the web slinger, such as the Scorpion, the Punisher, Tarantula (Rodriguez) and the Grizzly.

The Jackal wore an tight-fitting Olive Green costume with a slightly furry appearance to it. Dr Warren was remarkably well muscled. The outfit had razor-sharp claws which were typically tipped with some sort of drug. Physically he was no real match for Spider-Man, but with planning, psychology, and by enlisting several allies he was able to overcome Spider-Man on numerous occasions.

Peter Parker was also a student of Miles Warren and had also given tissue samples for the same assignment. This allowed the Jackal to clone Peter, and to use the clone to punish Spider-Man for what Warren Miles believed was his fault in Gwen Stacy's death. Upon sucessful cloning of Spider-Man, the Jackal kidnaped the original and forced them to do battle in Shea Stadium while a kidnapped Ned Leeds watched with a bomb strapped beside him. The Jackal cackled with glee as the two Spider-Men battled in what he called "the greatest identity crisis of all time! It's glorious! GLORIOUS!"

The Gwen clone then came to her senses and screamed that Warren was nothing but a monster and a "heartless fiend." Miles stopped lying to himself and took responsiblity for Serba's death and freed Ned just before the bomb exploded, leveling Shea Stadium. The Jackal was killed, as apparantly was the Spider- Clone. The Gwen clone left New York to start a new life for herself and Peter Parker returned to his ordinary, web slinging life.

Of course, we all know that the clone didnt die. He survived and gave himself a new name, Ben Reilly (named after Peter's Uncle Ben and his Aunt May's maiden name). Neither had the Jackal died, as he wasnt even at Shea Stadium when it was destroyed. He had sent a clone of himself in his place, while he was undergoing genetic enhancements to become stronger and faster in a regeneration tank, waiting for the day he could begin his master plan. His plan? To destroy humanity and replace it with genetically perfected clones. He even had the way to commit the global murder: a deadly disease known as the Carrion Virus.

The Carrion Virus had been a part of various super murderers called (not surprizingly) Carrion. The most recent, Malcom McBride, had been cured of his disease by Shriek, who was dying of the virus. Jackal, who had allowed himself to be captured by Spider-Man and the Scarlet Spider, was sent to the Ravencroft Institute and very painfully extracted the virus from Shreik.

With the virus back in his hands, Jackal's only problem was that the cloning process was imperfect and tended to produce clones with degenerative disease. In fact, the Peter and Gwen clones were the only perfect clones that he had ever made. This made him need to capture and study them to learn what kept them from degenerating. Thus began the Clone Saga, one of the most reviled stories in Spider-Man history. Dr Warren used many clones in his schemes: Kaine, Carrion, Spidercide, Ben Reilly and many others. This all became very confusing, which is why I will just give the basics of The Saga.

Ben Reilly returned to New York when he realised that Aunt May was dying. He had called her many times during his exile just to hear her voice. While he was a clone, he still felt affection for Peter's loved ones. The homicidal and imperfect clone known as Kaine followed Ben from Salt Lake City, determined to kill the man that he was jealous of. The return of the clone badly unhinged Peter, who had just lost Aunt May, Harry Osborn and his "parents" (who were really robots sent by Harry to kill Peter). Peter only came back to his senses when Mary Jane revealed that she was pregnant.

After Peter was aqcuited of the murder of a Salt Lake City officer (who was killed by Kaine) Ben and Peter went to Dr Seward Trainer, a friend of Ben's, to find out who was the real Peter Parker. The test was conclusive: Ben was the real Spider-Man. The Jackal then was revived from his regeneration tank and began manipulating the emotionally vulnerable Spiders. He led them around for a while, keeping them off balance as to whom was real. Meanwhile, he performed a test run of the Carrion Virus on the small town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. The town was destroyed, except for Rafael Caraga, who was mutated by the virus and became Helix.

By the time he conclusively told Peter he was the clone, Peter was ready to do anything to somehow belong. As a clone, he no longer felt human and readily joined his "brothers:" Kaine and Spidercide, Jackal's bodyguard. Warren then had Peter go after the Gwen clone, whom he needed to find out how she had not succumed to the Degeneration disease. Gwen came back with Peter but intended to kill Dr Warren. Jackal had taken over the Daily Bugle in order to clone the reporting staff. With the clones of the journalists under his control, the public wouldnt panic when rumors of a virus wiping out humanity began to spread.

Peter, Ben, the Gwen clone and Mary Jane arrived to fight the Jackal. A battle royale broke out and The Jackal was defeated when he tried to save the Gwen clone from falling from the roof of the Daily Bugle, but fell to his death.

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