Robbie Robertson (Marvel)
Robbie Robertson is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Joseph "Robbie" Robertson
During his senior year, he studied at Harlem High School where in the Spring time he was editor of the school newspaper after having recently been granted a scholarship to the Columbia School of Journalism. In this time, he decided to write an article about noted troublemaker Lonnie Lincoln. After learning of this, Lonnie had a private talk with Robbie after he closed the paper up on a Friday with Lincoln beating him up badly. In fear, he decided to withdrawn the article from the newspaper and never gave a reason. This resulted in Lonnie keeping an even closer watch over Joseph with this intimidation continuing for sometime. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #139)
He came to serve as the night desk catcher at a paper in Philadelphia. Most nights, the calls that came in were cranks and stories of no real significance. However, one night, he got a call from a person who reported to had seen the killer of local crime boss Ozzy Montana. Robertson decided to meet with this informant and believed that if he broke the story then he had a ticket to any newspaper in the country. Upon arriving at the scene, he found the informant dead at the hands of Lonnie Lincoln who was now the crime boss Tombstone. He fled the scene in terror where he received intimidating calls from Tombstone at this time with Joseph never reporting the murder. Eventually, he and Martha decided to leave Philadelphia with Joseph deciding to move to New York and get a job at the Daily Bugle. Over the next 20 years, he continued to follow the activity of Tombstone as Philadelphia's mob enforcer. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #139)
After Wilson Fisk became Mayor of New York, Robbie decided to change the Daily Bugle's strategy and switch to active information gathering on stories. Thus, he called a meeting of senior reporters at the newspaper and gave them their assignments. During this time, he also hired his niece Chloe Robertson for her position as a social media specialist and put her under Ben Urich's wing. (Amazing Spider-Man: Daily Bugle v1 #1)
During a staff meeting, he learnt that Jonah Jameson's Threats & Menaces business had supplied Spider-Man a new costume that allowed him to stream his activities. Robertson though decided to focus the newspapers efforts on the activities of Tombstone who was putting the money from his criminal enterprises into business and real estate developments. Part of their efforts was also into the activities of Tombstone's daughter who had formed a supervillain criminal team. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #61)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Even in high school, he tended to put the paper and work over his personal life. It was his experience with Lonnie Lincoln that taught Joseph to never retreat on a story no matter the cost. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #139)
Robbie had a longstanding fear of the crime boss Tombstone over experiences in their respective past. He felt as being an accessory to murder in relation to Tombstone with him living with the guilt of his involvement for more than 30 years. This had led to him waking him in the middle of the night and sweating from the guilt. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #139)
He had a niece named Chloe Robertson who by the time she was 23 years old was a reporter with her becoming a social media specialist. She admired her uncle but was a big fan of Ben Urich and his works as a reporter. (Amazing Spider-Man: Daily Bugle v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
He came to be a city editor at the Daily Bugle. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #58)
Notes
- Robbie Robertson was created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. where he made his first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #51 (August, 1967).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man, Robbie Robertson appeared in the 1990s animated television series where he was voiced by actor Rodney Saulsberry.
- In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Robbie Robertson appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Phil LaMarr.
- In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Robbie Robertson guest starred in the animated television series in the episode "Along Came a Spider" where he was voiced by actor Troy Baker.
- In Spider-Man, Robbie Robertson appeared in the 2017 animated television series starting in the episode "Screwball Live" where he was voiced by actor Ernie Hudson.
Films
- In the Spider-Man Trilogy, Robbie Robertson made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting:
- In Spider-Man, Robbie Robertson appeared in the 2002 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Bill Nunn.
- In Spider-Man 2, Robbie Robertson appeared in the live-action sequel where he was once again portrayed by actor Bill Nunn.
- In Spider-Man 3, Robbie Robertson appeared in the live-action sequel where he was again portrayed by actor Bill Nunn.
Video games
- In Spider-Man, Robbie Robertson did not appear in the setting of the 2018 video but was referenced in the story mode. He was said to be the head of the Daily Bugle after J. Jonah Jameson had retired with him becoming the boss of Mary Jane after she
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1967)
- Spectacular Spider-Man v1:
- Secret Invasion: The Amazing Spider-Man v1:
- Amazing Spider-Man: Daily Bugle v1: (2020)
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