Molten Man

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The Molten Man in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #582.

Molten Man is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

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Biography

Mark Raxton

He came to grow up with his step-sister Liz Allan. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #133) Mark would later get into frequent arguments with his stepfather after easily losing his temper. He would later leave home after high school and would not see his stepsister for many years. (Web of Spider-Man v1 #62) By adulthood, he became a scientist who focused his research on liquid metal alloys. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #132) It was said that Mark intended to become rich through his discoveries. During this time, he came to work with Dr. Spencer Smythe where they worked many hours on creating an experimental new liquid metal alloy where they managed to create a single batch of it. Smythe wanted to continue testing it but an impatient Raxton wanted to sell it to the highest bigger. Their disagreement led to him attempting to forcibly take the metal alloy where a fight erupted causing it to fall on Raxton. Whilst Smyte was unconscious, Raxton fled the scene where the liquid metal alloy bonded to his skin and covered his entire body. He came to learn that he could no longer feel pain and gained super-strength where he intended to use this to make money. Before he could do so, he looked to move to a new hideout but was confronted by Spider-Man. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28) While incarcerated, Raxton was a model prisoner, and made the legal argument that his powers had been a fluke, and he offered to pay for the damages incurred by his crime. Raxton was called before the judge, who agreed to give him a suspended sentence. Raxton went home and bent metal bars to get used to his new powers, then he began planning crimes after laying low for a time. Wearing a mask, suit, and gloves, he posed as a customer in a jewelry store, asking to see the finest jewels, but then he punched the clerk, intending to rob him. Spider-Man intervened and Raxton briefly battled him, but he soon fled when the clerk called the police. Removing his costume at home, Raxton waited a day then costumed himself again and he used his metallic skin to detect the subtle vibrations in a safe, cracking it quickly. Spider-Man attacked. Raxton ripped off his suit and the two of them fiercely battled until Raxton was overwhelmed and jumped out a window to escape. Spider-Man followed Raxton and used a specially-made rope, ensnaring Raxton's arms and legs before returning him to the police. Raxton demanded they let him go, but Spider-Man soon gave them photographic proof that Raxton had committed those crimes. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #35)

The courts sentenced Raxton to time in the hospital. As time passed, Raxton realized the molten metal, instead of being a coating on his skin, had become his very skin itself, and he developed the power to heat himself up and start himself on fire. He obsessed over getting revenge on Spider-Man. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #132) Freshly out of high school, Liz took a job as a nurse in Raxton's hospital, where the doctors had covered his face with a gold mask. She spoonfed him, but when he lashed out at her, Liz fled. Raxton got out of bed, knocked out an intern, and cut off his mask to see the transformation was getting worse. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #133) After escaping the hospital, Raxton bought a tenement building, providing housing to some, and he began experimenting on ways to cure himself, though his efforts failed. Raxton yelled at one of his tenants for cleaning the tenement, furious with her for invading his space. In revenge, she called the Daily Bugle to investigate him, and they sent reporter Ned Leeds there. Raxton attempted to cure himself again, but his room started on fire. Despondent and furious, he attacked Leeds and his tenant, knocking them out. Spider-Man intervened, webbing gloves to hit Raxton, who burnt out of webs and threw Raxton out the window. Raxton landed on a fire hydrant, setting off a burst of steam in which he escaped. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #132) His skin radiating more heat than ever, Raxton broke into the hospital and attacked doctors and nurses there, seeking to kill the wounded Ned Leeds so the reporter couldn't publish his story. Spider-Man attacked, turning a hose on Raxton to fill the room with steam, and Raxton chose to flee as the police arrived. Determined to recreate the alloy, Raxton began stealing radioactive isotopes and meteors from museums, but Spider-Man attacked him during one robbery, though Raxton escaped. Donning fireproof clothing and an asbestos mask, Raxton boarded the subway, but he heated up so much that his mask cracked apart. Sensing he was deteriorating, Raxton lost his mind when Spider-Man attacked and he savagely battled the hero in the subway tunnels until he jumped in the river after his lost bag of isotopes. Spider-Man presumed Raxton dead in the subsequent explosion. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #133)

After regaining consciousness, he came to realise that the children had been kidnapped by the babysitter. Liz then revealed that she had put a tracker on her son Normie and called for Alchemax security to accompany them to recover the kids. They confronted Emma with Harry believing that she was working for Norman Osborn but she stated that she had taken Normie along with Stanley to protect them from the Green Goblin. It was then that Norman arrived in his new guise as the Red Goblin where he effortlessly dispatched the security. Spider-Man's allies later arrived to fight the Red Goblin giving Mark along with the others a chance to escape with the kids. They were prepared to separate to make tracking them harder but Norman arrived where he took Normie and infected him with the Symbiote. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #799)

Overview

Personality and attributes

After gaining powers, he decided to take the name of the Molten Man on account of his molten skin. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28)

One of the reasons for him becoming a scientist at first was him desiring to become rich from his discoveries. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28)

After gaining powers, he sought to find a way to use his newfound abilities to make himself money. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28)

Raxton had a step-sister that was Liz Allan who cared for him. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #133)

Powers and abilities

Mark Raxton was originally an ordinary human who came to qualify as a scientist where he worked on a project involving a liquid metal alloy. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28)

He came to be altered after accidentally breaking a jar containing an experimental liquid metal alloy. It came to cover his entire body and was absorbed by his skin with it sinking into his bloodstream. Despite that, it did not hurt Raxton and he felt no pain. It also gave him super-strength where the metal alloy allowed him to buckle steel with his bare hands. His fingers were said to still be flexible but had the power of solid steel. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28)

Webbing was not capable of sticking onto his slick molten skin. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28)

Notes

  • Molten Man was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko where he made his first appearance in the Amazing Spider-Man v1 #28 (September, 1965).
  • The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Spider-Man: Back in Black v1 #1 (2007) lists that his mother was Doris who married his step-father Wilson Allan.

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

  • In The Spectacular Spider-Man, the Molten Man appeared in the animated television series second season where he was voiced by actor Eric Lopez.
  • In Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors, the Molten Man appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor James Arnold Taylor.

Films

Video games

  • In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, the Molten Man was a non-playable character who appeared in the setting of the video game.

Appearances

  • Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1965)

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