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Attributes

Height: 5' 10" (approx.)

Weight: 170 lbs. (approx.)

Eyes: (as Ohnn) Blue (as Spot) White irises surrounded by a thin black ring, then solid white set in black circle (unexplainable continuity error)

Hair: (as Ohnn) Black, then light brown/blonde (probably a coloring continuity error; can be explained as the effects of the Spot transformation) (as Spot) None

Features: As the Spot, Ohnn is bright-white and covered with black spots

Summary

Created By: Al Milgrom, Herb Trimpe, Jim Mooney

Real Name: Jonathan Ohnn (spelled Johnathon in first appearance)

Current Aliases: None

Former Aliases: None

Dual Identity: Unknown to society

Current Occupation: Scientist, radiation expert

Former Occupation: Researcher employed by Kingpin

Citizenship: United States of America

Legal Status: No known criminal record

Place of Birth: Unknown

Marital Status: Presumably single

Known Relatives: None

Known Confidants: None

Known Allies: None

Major Enemies: Spider-Man

Usual Bases: Currently unknown

Former Bases: The Fisk Building

Current Groups: None

Former Groups: Legion of Losers

Education: Ohnn holds a doctorate, presumably in engineering

Powers & Paraphenalia

Strength Level: The normal strength of a man Ohnn's size who engages in minimal activity.

Powers: The Spot's powers come from the spot-like space warps on his body. The warps connect Spot to the Spotted Dimension, and he can reside in either dimension.

Abilities: Using the warps, Spot can instantly move himself or any part of his body from one area to another over a theoretically unlimited distance, defined only by the locations of the spots.

The spots are unaffected by gravity and can be placed literally anywhere, but only by Spot. He can throw them or place them. Spot can change the size of his warps by stretching them or crushing them, though this is difficult and time-consuming. In an emergency, Spot can make a larger warp by touching spots against each other; they combine instantly into one large warp, though it still looks like a jumble of smaller warps.

Spot can retreat into his dimension by pulling his warps in behind him. When he does, the pulling makes a quiet "poit" sound.

Spot can move the warps on his body, though he can't change their size (except by combining or stretching). He can use this technique to revert to human appearance, though the spots form one large black void in his chest. He can also use this technique to protect himself from physical attack -- when he has enough warps on his body, Spot can move clump them in one area if he anticipates attack.

Spot was able to effectively negate Spider-Man's spider sense by surrounding him with warps; since the Spot's fists were in another dimension until they were inches away from Spider-Man's body, Spider-Man could not detect them in time to react. The same phenomenon was true when Spot flung Spider-Man through a warp; he reappeared in this dimension too close to a wall to roll or dodge.

Equipment: None other than his spots.

Weapons: None.

Limitations: Spot can not throw an unlimited number of space warps, because he primarily draws on the ones on his own body. Spider-Man defeated Spot when his body was mostly white.

Background

One of the toughest blows in this period came when Fisk's henchman, The Answer, disappeared after restoring the light-heroine Dagger. The Kingpin expected his scientists to create a new henchman, and the earliest lead came when devices in the Fisk Building successfully analyzed the radiation frequency of Dagger's partner, Cloak.

Ohnn made it his job to duplicate the frequency, and, working late one night, he succeeded, creating a portal into Cloak's Dimension of Darkness. However, the drain on the city's power was so great that, before New York City could black out, the portal shimmered.

Desperate to see where the portal led before it could disappear entirely, Ohnn stepped inside. He passed out from the shock, waking up in a dimension of half-darkness, half-light; the portal to this new dimension was created when the power shortage affected the radiation wavelength. Ohnn found the correct portal home in a realm of portals; the dark half of this dimension appeared as floating black spots.

When Ohnn stepped back into his lab, he was covered in the spots from that other dimension, and though he didn't realize it at the time, the rest of his body was pure white. When Ohnn tried to brush the spots off his body, his hand sank into one. After the initial shock, Ohnn realized the spots were portable space warps, and this discovery started him thinking that he might be capable of defeating anyone in battle. He decided to test his powers against an enemy, and Spider-Man and the Black Cat were the first to arrive at the Fisk Building.

The two heroes arrived on top of the building, disabling the security devices. After they finished, the Black Cat tried to enter the building, only to run into a space warp and land several blocks away. After she vanished, Ohnn stepped through another space warp, and announced himself to Spider-Man as The Spot. Spider-Man collapsed on the roof, laughing at the name.

Spider-Man finally did get up and throw a punch, only to have it sink into a space warp on Spot's body. Spider-Man emerged from their first battle largely unharmed, since Spot's punches are those of a man with below-normal strength. However, Spot was the clear victor, and he came away from the fight with a better understanding of his powers.

Using the roof of the Fisk Building as his expected future battleground, Spot left several space warps scattered in various positions. Spider-Man arrived again to face the Kingpin, and Spot appeared and fought him instead. Spot was more aggressive in their second fight, scattering more and more space warps to attack Spider-Man from any position. This proved to be Spot's downfall, as he eventually threw enough of the spots off his own body that he left himself vulnerable to attack. With just a few punches, Spider-Man traumatized the Spot into believing that he was not cut out to be a super-villain.

Despite largely favorable fan response and an appearance on a classic Spider-Man poster ("Old and New", featuring older Spider-Man characters on a poster half with the original costume, and newer characters on the poster half with the black pre-Venom costume), The Spot has apparently not reappeared, taking his beating by Spider-Man quite seriously.

The Spot then disappeared out of sight for a long time, only to resurface years later in spiderman_spectacular.246 as part of the Legion of Losers, a team of misfit villains also featuring Grizzly, The Gibbon, and The (New) Kangaroo.

The Spot was killed by Tombstone after helping the pale faced criminal escape from prison.

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The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.

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