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Black Widow
Natasha Romanov is the quintessential spy who came in from the cold. Formerly an agent of the Soviet Union, the felonious femme fatale tangled with a number of heroes -- including Iron Man, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Spider-Man and Daredevil. Now, the Black Widow uses her amazing acrobatic abilities and fearsome fighting skills for good. Lured by her beauty, many a man has felt the Widow's Sting!

Real name: Natasha Romanov 
Occupation: Adventurer, intelligence agent, former ballerina 
Group affiliation: Marvel Knights, Avengers (inactive), formerly the Champions of Los Angeles, frequent freelance agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate) 
Base of operations: New York City 
First appearance: Tales of Suspense #52 (1964) 

Height: 5'7" 
Weight: 125 lbs. 
Eye color: Green 
Hair color: Red-auburn 

Powers: None 

Weapons: A graduate of the Moscow-based covert-training academy known as the Red Room, the Black Widow's fighting prowess and tactical abilities have been honed to razor-sharp perfection. As such, Natasha Romanov's body and mind are her most formidable weapons. 

The Widow's wrist cartridges contain various tools of the spy trade: tear-gas pellets, a radio transmitter and spring-loaded cables, as well as a small device capable of emitting a high-frequency electrostatic charge. Microscopic suction cups built into her uniform enable the Widow to walk on walls and ceilings. 

History: Natasha Romanov, a descendant of Russia's royal family, was found abandoned as a child by Russian soldier Ivan Petrovitch, who watched over her as she grew to adulthood and today works as her chauffeur. Natasha matured into a brilliant scholar and athlete, and the young Russian gained fame as a ballerina. 

Natasha married renowned Soviet test pilot Alexi Shostakov, but the couple's wedded bliss was short-lived. The KGB deemed that the two would make exemplary special operatives, and informed Alexi of the state's new plans for him. He was permitted no further contact with friends and relatives, including his wife. A distraught Natasha, believing her husband had died, sought to follow a path worthy of his heroic memory. Having anticipated such a reaction, the KGB forged its naïve new recruit into the Soviet super-spy known as the Black Widow. 

Early in her career, the Black Widow was a frequent ally of the avenging archer known as Hawkeye. However, her growing love for the future hero weakened her resolve to continue her subversive activities on behalf of the Soviets. Hawkeye refused to act as a criminal any longer; he successfully sought amnesty and membership in the Avengers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes. 

Following Clint Barton's about-face, the Black Widow fell into the hands of intelligence agents from the People's Republic of China, who directed her to attack the Avengers. Natasha freed herself from their programming, was reunited with Hawkeye and defected to the United States. She publicly revealed her true identity and offered her services to S.H.I.E.L.D., a worldwide intelligence and peacekeeping organization dedicated to protecting the nations and people of Earth from any and all security threats. S.H.I.E.L.D. has made use of her talents on numerous occasions. Natasha's romance with Hawkeye eventually ended, as did a subsequent love affair and partnership with the blind adventurer known as Daredevil. However, she remains friends with both men. 

After working through a crisis of faith, Natasha accepted an assignment that brought her into conflict with Yelena Belova, another Russian operative claiming the mantle of Black Widow. Hostile to Natasha, Yelena believed the designation Black Widow was by right hers, citing both "superior potential" and "loyalty to Mother Russia." Although young, Yelena exhibited all the traits of an exceptional agent. The only Red Room graduate ever to match Natasha's scores, Yelena set out to prove she was her predecessor's better. 

Opportunity presented itself when Natasha embarked on a mission to retrieve a deadly new bio-weapon from the terrorist nation of Rhapastan. Yelena shadowed Natasha to the base housing the lethal serum, and Widow and wannabe Widow clashed. In the wake of Natasha's apparent death, Yelena assumed the guise of Black Widow and received a new assignment: Protect the American and Russian forces attacking the Rhapastan bio-weapons plant. However, Yelena's inexperience resulted in her capture. She escaped, only to be caught by Natasha. Her pride bruised, she lashed out. Natasha again outmaneuvered her adversary and completed the assignment Yelena had accepted. A subsequent encounter saw the two Widows exchange physical appearances, initiating the deception that Yelena had "become" Natasha. The original Widow again gained the upper hand, proving to Yelena that espionage was no game. 

Bullseye
A former soldier with perfect aim, Bullseye never misses his mark. From the early days of his career as a costumed criminal, the ruthless assassin has set his sights most often on a single target -- Daredevil, the Man Without Fear -- murdering not one, but two of the blind adventurer's former lovers!

Real name: Unrevealed 
Occupation: Assassin, professional criminal, former mercenary 
Group affiliation: None 
Base of operations: New York City 
First appearance: Daredevil (Vol. 1) #131 (1976) 

Height: 6' 
Weight: 185 lbs. 
Eye color: Blue 
Hair color: Blond 

Powers: None 

Weapons: Any object -- be it pencil, playing card or paper clip -- becomes a deadly weapon in the skilled hands of the man who could be the world's greatest assassin. 

History: Born with perfect aim, the man who would become Bullseye enlisted in the military rather than continue a budding baseball career. Aside from his uncanny reflexes, Bullseye also derived pleasure from killing. One incident, in particular, inspired him to employ his throwing skills as a means of combat: While on foot patrol, he was ambushed by a guerilla soldier. Pivoting about, Bullseye squeezed the trigger of his rifle...only to discover that the clip was empty. In desperation, he hurled his gun at the guerilla, impaling his attacker on its bayonet blade. 

Following his discharge from the military, he embarked on a career as a costumed criminal. Bullseye attempted to extort money from a number of New York City millionaires, hoping the resultant publicity would help solidify his reputation among the denizens of the underworld. The blind adventurer known as Daredevil interrupted his plans, but Bullseye escaped. Daredevil tracked down and defeated the assassin when he tried to murder his second victim, beginning a series of deadly encounters between Bullseye and the Man Without Fear. 

Hired to murder lawyer Matt Murdock, Bullseye was defeated by the attorney's alter ego: Daredevil, his hated foe. Believing his reputation had been sullied, Bullseye swore vengeance on the Man Without Fear. He would fight Daredevil at any opportunity -- whether to fulfil his personal vendetta or on assignment as the top assassin for the Kingpin, the most powerful figure in East Coast organized crime. 

Bullseye's career nearly was cut short when he was declared clinically insane due to a brain tumor. After the malignancy was surgically removed, Bullseye took aim at a return engagement as the Kingpin's top assassin -- only to find his position had been usurped by the Greek ninja known as Elektra, Daredevil's former lover. Bullseye seized the opportunity to exact vengeance on his mortal enemy and regain his place at the Kingpin's side. Seeking out the femme fatale, the maniacal marksman impaled her on her own sai. However, the Kingpin refused to rehire Bullseye until he could kill Daredevil. 

During one of his white-knuckle brawls with Daredevil, Bullseye fell from a great height -- breaking many of his bones and shattering his spine. Left irrevocably paralyzed, Bullseye was abducted to Japan by Lord Dark Wind. The warlord intended to transform the broken assassin into an invincible warrior by lacing his spine and broken bones with the indestructible metal Adamantium. After recovering from the mysterious procedure, Bullseye was assigned to assassinate the Japanese minister of trade in New York. Unknown to Dark Wind, the expert marksman had no intention of carrying out this task without pay. Instead, he took advantage of his freedom to return to the United States. 

Bullseye again struck at the Man Without Fear when the illusion-casting criminal called Mysterio retained him to kidnap an infant believed to be the antichrist. In the midst of a battle with Daredevil, Bullseye slew Murdock's estranged girlfriend, Karen Page, by impaling her with the hero's own billy club. Bullseye escaped with the child, as Daredevil was too grief-stricken to pursue. 

Cloak and Dagger
The darkness and light are both alike...I am fearfully and wonderfully made." - Psalms 

Tyrone Johnson was just another statistic. Wandering the concrete canyons of New York City, the young runaway was all alone...until he found a soulmate in troubled teenager Tandy Bowen. Fate struck when the two were kidnapped and injected with an experimental serum. Instead of killing them, the drug triggered latent mutant powers in both youngsters. Tyrone discovered that he could tap the soul-shredding energies of a dark dimension and force the dregs of society to face the disgusting depths of their shadowy psyches. Tandy manifested the ability to generate light-knives capable of cleansing the tainted souls of animals who would prey upon the innocent. A child of darkness. A child of light. Fighting to save future runaways from the dangers of the city's mean streets, they are Cloak and Dagger! 

Real name: Cloak - Tyrone Johnson / Dagger - Tandy Bowen 
Occupation: Vigilantes 
Group affiliation: Marvel Knights, formerly the New Warriors
Base of operations: Holy Ghost Church, 42nd Street, New York City 
First appearance: Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (1982) 

Height: Cloak - 5'9" / Dagger - 5'5" 
Weight: Cloak - 155 lbs. / Dagger - 115 lbs. 
Eye color: Cloak - brown / Dagger - blue 
Hair color: Cloak - black / Dagger - white strands of light energy 

Powers: Dagger possesses the mutant ability to generate an unknown form of luminescence, a manifestation of the life force existing within all beings. A type of psionic energy, it responds to her conscious and subconscious mental commands. Dagger produces far more of this psionic light than ordinary living beings, thus increasing her physical agility and swiftness. Also, she can surround herself with a light-like aura. 

Cloak possesses the mutant ability to create an aperture into a dimension of total darkness -- through which he can cast criminals or project a black, gas-like substance. Often, he allows his victims to re-emerge after the darkness has drained the bulk of their light energy. However, Cloak has been known to relegate criminals to the dark realm permanently. Cloak can teleport himself and others from one point to another on the planet's surface by entering the dimension of darkness, traversing a distance and emerging on Earth. He is usually intangible, though he can regain human form through a tremendous act of will. While immaterial, Cloak is able to phase through objects or allow them to pass harmlessly through him. He appears as a shadow in human form -- though his facial features remain visible, possibly due to an act of will. 

Cloak feels a constant hunger that compels him to seek out living victims and project them into the darkness. It is his belief that the dimension somehow feeds on the life forces of these criminals, which manifest as light. Hence, Cloak finds himself dependent on Dagger. By absorbing some of her light into the dark realm, he can satisfy his hunger for a time without having to cast others into it. Conversely, Dagger's stores of light grow so large at times that they threaten to overwhelm her, and she must release a portion into Cloak. If Cloak goes too long without feeding his hunger, he suffers psychic and physical pain -- enough eventually to drive him mad. 

Weapons: Cloak can manifest an aperture into the dark dimension anywhere within his field of vision, but most often uses his cloak to help him define the area of the opening. Hence, the darkness seems to issue forth from under the garment. 

Dagger can project 6-inch, wedge-shaped projectiles of pure light from her fingertips. These light-knives deprive their human targets of life energy by inducing a paralyzing, biophysical shock reaction that can kill a person in poor health. In addition, Dagger's victims experience visions of what their lives would have been like if they had fulfilled their potential for good. The life energy the knives remove from their targets flows into Dagger, increasing her own supply of light. The light-knives either ricochet or disperse when they strike non-living objects, depending on the angle and force of impact. 

History: Tyrone Johnson was raised in a low-income section of South Boston. Despite a severe stuttering problem, the disadvantaged teenager was successful in his studies. Tyrone managed to keep himself out of trouble until the day he and his best friend, Billy, walked by a neighborhood store as it was being robbed. Fleeing the scene, one of the thieves shot the pursuing clerk dead. Afraid he and his friend would be blamed for the theft and murder, Billy began to run. When a late-arriving police officer ordered Billy to stop, Tyrone tried to explain what had happened. However, his stammer prevented him from voicing his thoughts. Assuming Billy was one of the thieves, the officer shot him. Overcome with guilt over his friend's death and afraid the police would target him next, Tyrone boarded a bus to New York City.

Teenager Tandy Bowen grew up in the wealthy Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights with her stepfather, Phillip Carlisle, and mother, Melissa Bowen. Her father had emigrated to India seeking spiritual rebirth. A celebrated model, Melissa Bowen was preoccupied with her career and social life, to the point where she neglected both her husband and Tandy. Hurt by her father's desertion, Tandy refused to accept her stepfather. Feeling unloved at home, she turned to an older boy for affection. After he left for college, Tandy headed to New York City. When Tandy arrived at Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal, the penniless Tyrone saw her as an easy mark. He was about to rob her outside the station when another thief snatched her purse. Tyrone tackled the man and returned Tandy's belongings. As a reward, Tandy treated him to a meal. While they ate, they shared the reasons they had run away. 

When Tandy and Tyrone left the restaurant, thugs employed by renegade pharmaceutical chemist Simon Marshall offered them a place to spend the night. Tandy naively accepted. The street-smart Tyrone, sensing ulterior motives, went along to protect her. The men knocked out Tyrone and took the teens by boat to Ellis Island, where Marshall had established a secret laboratory. Contracted by the Maggia, an international crime syndicate, Marshall had developed a synthetic substitute for imported heroin. He used the runaway teens his men had captured as guinea pigs to test the experimental narcotic. Tandy and Tyrone were the only survivors; they escaped from their holding cell and dove into the river to avoid being shot. 

As they swam for Manhattan, Tyrone found himself engulfed in total blackness. Tandy was glowing with light, and he swam to her. When he reached her, Tyrone saw that Tandy's light dispelled his darkness. On shore, Tandy became delirious, and Tyrone realized that he had been transformed into a strange, inhuman being. Shortly thereafter, Marshall's men located the runaways. Tyrone began to engulf them within the eerie blackness of the large cloak he had improvised. Just then, Tandy awoke and instinctively struck the thugs with light-knives. The drug had transformed the teens into superhumanly powerful beings. 

As Cloak and Dagger, Tyrone and Tandy hunted down and killed Marshall and his henchmen. They then set out to prevent other runaways from falling victim to similar abuse. Their noble crusade has led them to fight alongside a whole host of other costumed champions. Early on, the duo helped the wisecracking, web-slinging super hero known as Spider-Man thwart the murder of the Kingpin, the most powerful figure in East Coast organized crime, by the vigilante called the Punisher. 

Tandy has attempted to leave her life as Dagger, but always returns -- convinced that only Cloak loves her. Even when Spider-Man sought to reunite Dagger with her stepfather, she stood steadfast by Cloak's side. Tyrone attempted to envelop the wall-crawler in his cloak, angered by his interference, but Dagger grabbed hold of Spider-Man to protect him from the garment's effects. Within the blackness, she showed the web-slinger the world as Cloak sees it: an amalgamation of auras and evil, where darkness of the soul shines through like an ebony beacon. This experience reassured Cloak that Dagger never would dessert him. 

No longer able to keep the darkness at bay, Cloak embarked on a mad quest to consume any and all lawbreakers -- from a healthy motorist who had parked his car in a handicapped space to the Punisher. A desperate Dagger sought the aid of a loose-knit band of urban-based adventurers: the Black Widow, super-spy turned super hero; Daredevil, fearless blind adventurer; Dr. Strange, Earth's Sorcerer Supreme; Moon Knight, undead avenger of evil; and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. In an attempt to reason with Cloak, Strange transported Moon Knight, Daredevil and the Black Widow into the dimension of darkness, which had been transformed into a nightmarish reflection of New York City. 

There, the heroes learned that Cloak had come under the control of the demonic entity known as Nightmare. Meanwhile, Dagger confronted Cloak on the mortal plane. Tyrone had been transformed by the hunger, leaving Tandy no choice but to unleash the full extent of her power against her crimefighting companion. Through her love for her best friend, Dagger cleansed Cloak of the darkness and transformed him back into the young man he had been prior to Simon Marshall's experiments. The darkness that once possessed him now resides in Dagger, balanced by her light.

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