
Man, mom meant well, of course, but...What a letdown. Spider-Man has all these wicked villains and mom buys one with these three losers who were already dated when I was a toddler. Even the Vulture would have been greater cause for excitement.
Years later, I would somehow end up with another book which featured the Enforcers; Marvel Team-Up 138.

The original three (Ox, Fancy Dan and Montana) were joined by a guy called Hammer Harrison (the dude with the metal gloves, obviously) and the skinny guy in black. The latter would be Sylvester "Snake" Marston, our Canadian content.
Snake, whose first name is surprisingly not Jake, has no powers as such, but he is an accomplished contortionist. That doesn't sound like much of a skill to possess, but in one of his few appearances his ability is described as being "murderously efficient at silently crushing sinew and bone". I can see how that would suck.
MTU 138 was not his first appearance, mind you. That significant moment in comics history took place in Machine Man #16. It would be about 12 years until Snake would slither his way into our lives again, appearing in a couple of issues of Daredevil in 1996, then in the Thunderbolts book a decade later. He was a member of the Enforcers in the former appearance, but not the latter, so presumably he is no longer on that team.
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