Daniel Berkhart

Daniel Berkhart is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Daniel Berkhart

Berkhart apparently worked with fellow stuntman and special effects artist Quentin Beck on a few low-budget 'creature features'. (Spider-Man: Mysterio Manifesto v1 #2) In this time, Berkhart was a regular at Maguire's Irish Pub in New York until it's closing. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #257) Imprisoned for an unrevealed crime, Berkhart was selected by Beck, by then better known as the illusion-casting criminal Mysterio, to be his cellmate prior to his second arrest. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #198) Mysterio contacted Jameson at his private club to inform him of his progress. Locating Spider-Man outside of a McDonald's restaurant, Mysterio used his fog to disorient him before attacking. Taking note of Berkhart's speed, strength, and curious lack of Mysterio's trademark melodramatic taunts, Spider-Man realized he was being led into a trap and narrowly avoided being struck by a truck before being attacked by numerous members of his rogues gallery. While Spider-Man injured himself fighting the illusions, Mysterio taunted him, telling him this was just the beginning. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #141) Confronting Spider-Man while he attempted to salvage the Spider-Mobile, Mysterio boasted that nothing would stop his revenge, not even his seeming death; planting an image inducer on Spider-Man, Mysterio vanished. After suffering through several illusions in his civilian identity of Peter Parker, Spider-Man discovered the image inducer and tracked the transmission to Mysterio's lair by the Hudson River. Attempting to frighten Spider-Man by pretending to be headless, Mysterio was overpowered by Spider-Man who saw past the illusion. Losing his temper, Msyterio leapt at Spider-Man, but was knocked down and restrained with webbing. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #142)

Taken into police custody after Spider-Man alerted the police to his whereabouts, Mysterio called Jameson to demand he provide him with a lawyer. Threatening to expose Jameson's role in his actions, Mysterio hung up on him; his words had little effect on Jameson, who instead left town to avoid dealing with Berkhart. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #142) Spider-Man blamed the effect Mysterio's illusions had on his sanity when he spotted a woman identical in appearance to his deceased girlfriend Gwen Stacy. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #143)

Notes

• Daniel Berkhart was created by Gerry Conway and Ross Andru where he made his first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #141 (November, 1974).

Appearances

• Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1974)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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