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...sums up the minutes of our last meeting. Now to proceed with the reasons why the State of Delaware feels that it must secede from the Union. Number one--

—Unnamed bureaucrat, to Emperor Doom[1]

Delaware is one of the States in the United States of America. It was the birthplace of a number of adventurers and superpowered people, including the Golden Age detective Phantom Bullet, the megalomaniac Eternity Man and the supervillains Blizzard II (Donny Gill), Corruptor, Doctor Spectrum IV (Alice Nugent), and Snake Whip (previously known as Whiplash). A number of superpowered-related incidents, mostly not related with each other, have taken place in Delaware: The first known one was in 1923, when Stephen Loss destroyed a town in Delaware as his first main action in the war against Hell. During World War II, the alien adventurer Vision exonerated D.A. Tom Douglas of Newton City and rid the city of the crime lord controlling it, Big Tim Skelly.

In more recent times, the Word restarted his cult of mind-controlled slaves to avoid exceptionality, but after S.H.I.E.L.D. failed to stop him, the Fantastic Four's Human Torch and Thing foiled his plan. Later, while hitchhiking back home from Virginia, Spider-Man found about Medgar DuPaul, a deranged rich man who played a dangerous game hunting people, and helped stop him. When Doctor Doom ruled the world using the Psycho-Prism, Delaware presented a motion to secede from the United States, which apparently did not prosper. During their early career, the Thunderbolts stopped the Circus of Crime in Delaware. The supervillain Corruptor, born in Smyrna, Delaware, eventually took over the city as the major, using an alias, and tried to spread hatred through it, but the New Warriors exposed him.

After the approval of the SHRA, Norman Osborn expanded the 50-State Initiative to give Delaware its own superhero team, the Women Warriors, made up of three females formerly of the Serpent Society plus others; they collaborated with Constrictor, also of the Initiative, during their career. After Osborn's fall, Roxxon Energy Corporation moved their corporate HQ to Wilmington, Delaware. In more recent times, areas of Delaware were flooded and mutant Iceman went to help.

History

Delaware is one of the States in the United States of America; its capital city is Dover. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north,[2] New Jersey to its northeast,[2][3] and the Atlantic Ocean to its east.[2] While the state borders were watched by the police to prevent criminals from escaping to a different State,[4] there were also open places in those same borders, like the bar Zone.[5] Delaware is well communicated by highways and byways,[6] and as such issues distinctive plates for motor vehicles that can operate throughout the whole country.[7] However, Delawareans had a reputation for not being receptive to hitchhiking.[8] Some of its cities, including Smyrna, have reached lists of nicest towns in the country,[6] but, being a coastal state, it has known floods in the past.[9] Even thou Delaware was reputed to have the fastest Internet speed in the United States,[10] the state was often considered to not be a desirable place to be, either as a workplace[11] or even to visit: When Layla Miller and James Madrox decided to marry, she suggested doing so in Delaware to avoid waiting in line and otherwhere-mandatory blood tests, but Madrox was unwilling to marry in a dull place like Delaware and instead insisted in marrying in Las Vegas.[12] Similarly, when two up-and-coming Hydra agents argued about their ideal permanent posting if they could choose, one of them, Brian, thought of Delaware, which was an utterly confusing choice for his Hawaii-favoring colleague.[11]

Delaware was the birthplace of several supervillains and costumed adventurers, most famously the supervillains Corruptor (from Smyrna),[13][14][15] who later became the mayor of Smyrna using the alias John Peabody;[6][15] and Blizzard II (Donny Gill) (from Newark).[16][17][18] Other superhumans and adventurers from Delaware include the Phantom Bullet (from Wilmington), a detective with extraordinary technology who was briefly active in New York City in 1940;[19][20] Jason Beere (also from Wilmington), nicknamed "the Eternity Man",[21][22] an industrialist and competitor of tycoon Anthony Stark who tried to trigger the destruction of the world when his terminal disease had him expire, but was stopped by the superhero team Avengers and kept in stasis indefinitely;[21][22] Snake Whip (previously known as Whiplash) (also from Wilmington), a female mercenary and member of the Femme Fatales;[23][24] and Doctor Spectrum IV (Alice Nugent) (from Bellefonte), who is also the CEO of Nugent Technology.[25]

Delaware, Stephen Loss (Earth-616) from Hellstorm Prince of Lies Vol 1 20 01

Stephen Loss destroys a Delaware town, 1923

Stephen Loss, a homunculus brought to life by the Asura (so-called "the assassins of Heaven") in 1900 as an agent for Heaven's war against Hell over control over Earth, executed his first "major inquisition" in Delaware in Spring of 1923. Armed with one of Al Capone's Twin Breathing Guns and with the Ruinsaw of Giza, Loss obliterated one "tainted Delaware township"[26][27][28] in one single hour, especially thanks to the effect of the Ruinsaw.[26]

Delaware, Newton City (Earth-616) form Marvel Mystery Comics Vol 1 18 001

Newton City, Delaware, was controlled by organized crime in 1941

Newton City, Delaware, was controlled by crime lord Big Tim Skelly[29][30] since approximately 1916[29] to early[30] 1941; Skelly acted as the virtual dictator of the city, in his last times with the help of underworld czar Heinie Myers, and promoted any public officer he deemed. As such, he ensured that Tom Douglas became the District Attorney[29] in early 1941,[30] but Douglas had a strong stance against organized crime, ensuring raids and arrests, and getting millions of fans. At worried Myer's request to take measures, Skelly murdered Douglas's political rival Daniel Reardon and framed Douglas, intent on getting death penalty. Alien superhuman adventurer the Vision, believing on Douglas' innocence, tracked Skelly's hired murderers, defeated them and got them to confess, incriminating Skelly. The Vision then visited Skelly, at that time celebrating with Myers. Trying to protect himself, Skelly shot the Vision, but when the Vision vanished with his powers, the bullet killed Myers. The police burst in and arrested Skelly, not believing his claims about the Vision. Douglas was exonerated[29] and Skelly's rule was over.[30]

In more recent times, John Stover, a bank vice president from Delaware, was a passenger on the cruise ship Atlantic, going to Haiti. Due to a sick passenger, several people onboard, included Stover, were infected by a Zombie-like disease that turned them into cannibalistic "Beasts". It is unclear whether the boat ever reached port.[31]

Delaware, Benjamin Grimm (Earth-616), Jonathan Storm (Earth-616) from Marvel Two-In-One Vol 1 89 003

The Word's cult had mining operations in Delaware with conditioned workers, including the Human Torch and the Thing

Delaware, Benjamin Grimm (Earth-616), Jonathan Storm (Earth-616), Jack Wordman (Earth-616), Ultima Wordman (Earth-616) from Marvel Two-In-One Vol 1 89 004

The Human Torch and the Thing stopped the Word's illegal activities in Delaware

Dictionary editor-turned-cult leader Jack Wordman, alias the Word, had used his charisma and conviction skills to raise his daughter Ultima in strict mental and physical disciplines; but after an encounter with She-Hulk, Ultima lost her confidence on her father, and thus also lost speech and muscular coordination, becoming motionless. While the Word initially retired to a secluded island[32][33] and made vow of silence, he then decided to break his vow and use his words[32] to heal Ultima's psychological injuries. The Word and Ultima rebuilt their cult in Delaware, pressuring the members into manual labor in underground coal mines using the Word's hypnotic powers, as well as drugs, robots and electronics, to reduce anyone extraordinary (except for the Word and Ultima themselves) onto "normality" instead of striving to reach their potential, abolishing both advantages and inadequacies.[32][33] His recruiting advertisements about a collective experiment[32] attracted the attention of law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D., which send two agents, but both were brainwashed into service. S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury asked the Fantastic Four for help, and Fantastic Four's Human Torch and the Thing drove to Delaware to investigate (using a land rover to not attract attention); but the Word had prepared several traps in the road, including remote-controlled machine guns, land mines, and a system to change the road shape; this allowed him to capture both superheroes and use superpower-suppressing collars to control them;[32][33] the Torch's collar used electric shocks whenever he tried to flame on; and the Thing's injected drugs that deprived him of his strength. The heroes were sent to the mines, where they found the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were surprisingly satisfied in their stress-free situation.[32] Still, the Thing managed to sabotage the mining machinery, causing a cave-in. Ultima and several robots cleared the fallen rocks, taking the heroes to the surface; and once there, the Torch succeeded in overloading his power suppressor, regaining his powers and damaging the Thing's collar (although the Thing's strength took some time to come back). Ultima battled the weakened Thing, with the Word encouraging her. Irritably, the Thing knocked the Word aside, suddenly demonstrating that the Word was fallible. This was enough for Ultima to lose faith in the Word and in herself, and she was paralyzed again.[32][33] The Thing insisted that leaving all the decisions on someone else's shoulders, the cultists/miners were not free at all.[32] SHIELD arrested Ultima and the Word,[32][33] yet the Word claimed that, given a choice, many of his followers will still choose to avoid responsibility.[32] The Thing swore he'd see the Word taken to jail.[32][33]

Later, when the Avengers flew in a Quinjet to reach Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, to save Nick Fury and the President of the United States, captured by the Plantman, they briefly flew over Wilmington, and Captain Marvel joined them over the city to give them a briefing on what was happening.[34]

Delaware, Backwoods, Peter Parker (Earth-616) from Web of Spider-Man Vol 1 18 001

The Delaware town that Peter Parker called Backwoods

In a Delawarean town tentatively named Backwoods, a series of criminal events took place involving Medgar DuPaul, a wealthy man who organized a sadistic manhunt on his vast estate. DuPaul used advanced technology and bribed the local sheriff, Andrews, to obtain victims, mainly vagrants and unidentified people in good shape. The constant disappearances in the area alerted Andrews' deputy Sarah. At that time, the New York superhero Spider-Man arrived in Backwoods after facing the villain Magma in Virginia, losing his clothes, money and identification in the process; Spider-Man was hitchhiking but in Backwoods he was arrested by Sarah for stealing food and taken to the county jail, where he identified himself as Jay Jameson. In jail, Spider-Man demonstrated his extraordinary strength to intimidate other inmates; but this attracted the attention of Andrews, who separated him from the group of inmates for the county work farm and took him to DuPaul. Sarah secretly followed Andrews to DuPaul's estate. Spider-Man was subjected to the death game, during which he was careful not to use his superpowers so as not to reveal his identity. Sarah attempted to arrest DuPaul, but was surprised and captured by Andrews, who intended to kill her. However, when Spider-Man saw evidence of DuPaul's cruelty, he returned to the mansion to stop him. Spider-Man knocked out Andrews, rescuing Sarah, and Sarah arrested DuPaul. Sarah let Spider-Man go after verifying that there were no federal warrants for him.[8]

When Doctor Doom became the ruler of the whole world through the use of the Psycho-Prism, he had to take care of many decisions he felt were beneath him, one of them being a meeting where he was informed that Delaware felt it should secede from "the Union" (apparently the United States). This was one of the reasons Doom decided to not stop the Avengers with nerve gas when they reached the Prism, even if that threatened his continued rule, instead choosing to "let fate decide" as a wiser path.[1]

Prometheus, member of the Pantheon, was trying to find the Hulk through the eastern states,[4] using a high-tech red road vehicle that achieved speeds over 167 miles per hour. Going through some Delaware roads, he alerted a police office by breaking his speed trap. The officer (who did not expect any trouble) called in, and soon the authorities arranged a police cordon in the border with New Jersey; however, when Prometheus decided to go through it soon afterward, he used advanced vehicular weapons to blast through the roadblock and continue on unimpeded.[3]

A lizard transformed into a humanoid monster[35] initially seen in the Florida Everglades[36] crawled in direction to New York City, slaughtering anyone in its path. When going through the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Delawarean Appalachians, the monster killed a group of campers.[37]

Newark (Delaware) from Thunderbolts Vol 1 2 001

The Thunderbolts stop the Circus of Crime in Newark, Delaware

The criminal organization Circus of Crime staged a supposed charity performance for an Elks Lodge fund-raiser in Newark, then robbed the audience, purportedly to pay their Ringmaster's medical bills. They were promptly stopped by the then-recently-debuted Thunderbolts, in a series of victories all over the countries, and the TV showed exclusive video footage of the Circus' defeat and arrest. Still, at that point, the mayor of New York City was skeptic about them.[38]

Mutant Multiple Man went to the Zone bar in the Delaware/New Jersey border for a basketball match against himself. His friend and colleague Havok, arranged a meeting with the Multiple Man there, to try and recruit the Multiple Man for a team of superheroes. The Multiple Man was uninterested but, knowing that Havok would be coming, he called Polaris, their fellow colleague and Havok's ex-girlfriend, to surprise Havok. Thus, after rejecting Havok's offer, the Multiple Man left his friend for an uncomfortable encounter with Polaris. Havok left the Zone soon after when he was informed of an emergency in Brickton, New Jersey.[5]

Supervillain Vulture's illegitimate son[39] was arrested for armed robbery and imprisoned in Delaware, during a time the Vulture himself was in Ryker's Island, New York. The Vulture was visited by his daughter-in-law[40] (though it is unclear whether this woman had married the Vulture's son or only was in a relationship with him)[39] to introduce the Vulture and his grandson, and ask for help for the baby.[40][39]

Delaware, Smyrna from New Warriors Vol 3 6 002

Smyrna under the mayorship of Peabody (the Corruptor) was overwhelmed by hatred

The blue-skinned supervillain Corruptor, born in Smyrna, Delaware, possessed sweat glands that released a chemical overriding social inhibitions in victims[13][14][15] upon skin contact.[6] Affected by his own toxins, he became irrational[15] and unable to feel positive emotions.[6][15] He returned to Smyrna, using the alias John Peabody and makeup to hide his skin color, and was elected mayor. Using his sweat to irrigate exotic flowers ("orchidius corruptus"), he spread aggression and selfishness throughout the town, attempting to make others feel as he did. His identity was revealed when his makeup accidentally washed off on camera, but authorities did not intervene.[6][15] The New Warriors, a superhero team with a reality show where they travelled through the country to confront villains in smaller towns,[6] investigated the situation. At the Mayoral Mansion, the Corruptor explained his plan, knowing the flowers would affect the Warriors. However, New Warrior Microbe, immune to the effects, pushed the Corruptor through a window, allowing fresh air in and helping the Warriors recover.[6][15] The Corruptor was arrested but escaped to Great Britain,[15] while Microbe fell ill and the New Warriors' show was cancelled.[6]

Women Warriors (Earth-616) from Avengers The Initiative Vol 1 29 001

The Women Warriors, the 50-State Initiative's team for Delaware, with their ally Consrtictor

After the approval of the SHRA and the end of failed Skrull invasion on Earth, Norman Osborn, by then Director of National Security, modified the 50-State Initiative to give superhero teams to several states that were still missing it, including Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina and Oregon, and also creating Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. at the same time[41] (These teams did not have their operational jurisdiction restricted to their State HQ).[42] The Delawarean officially-licensed team within Osborn's federal Initiative program was called the Women Warriors,[41][43][44][45][46] originally made up of former criminals, all of them women:[41][43] Asp,[41][43][44] Black Mamba,[41][43][45] and team leader[44][45] Diamondback[41][43] (these three women had been previously known as the B.A.D. Girls and had been recruited in anti-SHRA Secret Avengers for the Civil War; after the Secrets Avengers' defeat, they initially rejected the amnesty offered if they would join the Initiative as licensed superheroes,[44][45] but after the Skrull invasion[45] they did join and were assigned to this team); along with Quicksand[41][43][46] (who had been forced to cooperated with the Thunderbolts during the then-recent Civil War and injected with a subdermal phase-shift locator to teleport her to jail if she rebelled, but it apparently malfunctioned);[46] and Skein[41][43] (who had participated in pro-mutant riots against Osborn's troops soon before).[43] While Osborn publicly insisted that the ex-criminals he was using in the Initiative were reformed, lawfully registered and had proved themselves,[41] really most of the criminals he was using were not rehabilitated at all.[44]

The Initiative sent the Women Warriors in several missions,[44] including stopping RAID terrorists[42][44][46] that were attacking the Baltimore–Washington International Airport (Maryland);[42][44] in such mission they were joined by Initiative agent Constrictor,[42][46] who overexerted himself to stop an airplane that RAID tried to collide against a control tower, thus saving many lives including Diamondback's. This mission was successful, with the Women Warriors and Constrictor being praised; Osborn had Constrictor be reassigned to spend some more time with the Women Warriors and receive a publicity tour.[42] Also with Constrictor, the Women Warriors confronted the New Warriors who were trying to rescue their member Donyell Taylor[46] from Camp H.A.M.M.E.R., and were also attacked by Nightmare, who possessed Trauma. Constrictor began a romance with Diamondback, discovering that Diamondback she was secretly working with the anti-SHRA resistance;[47] thou Constrictor did not mind.[48] The Women Warriors were also on the front lines when Norman Osborn laid siege to Asgard in an unprovoked attack with many Initiative teams;[49][44][45][50] Constrictor, Diamondback[49] and Quicksand were among the many who fought Thor directly.[50] Thor was defeated and publicly beaten by Quicksand and several other Initiative members.[46]

Some time later, when Kid Cable used the computer Professor to track the time-displaced X-Men from a safehouse, he checked on a wide area of Delaware.[51]

At some point, Roxxon Energy Corporation moved their Corporate Headquarters to Wilmington, Delaware. Ant-Man and Moon Knight of the Secret Avengers infiltrated the building by night, knocking down guards, to steal information from Roxxon computers as a part of an operation. The Avengers discovered that Roxxon had bought rights to mine Mars during the previous administration, but closed their operation when it was rumored that Roxxon had or was trying to get the Serpent Crown; every employee involved, Ant-Man discovered, was no longer in the company or even recognized as existing.[52]

Delaware, Robert Drake (Earth-616) from Uncanny X-Men Winters End Vol 1 1 001

Iceman helps during the recent Delaware floods

More recently, Delaware was affected by floods that covered part of the suburb houses in an undetermined town. Mutant superhero Iceman, on his birthday, went to help through his powers, to move boats and supplies to places trucks were unable to reach (sometimes using ice-generated "golems" for that purpose). A Delawarean who had to stand on his submerged home's roof was unhappy with the idea, disliking both mutants and city slickers, and criticized Iceman for providing low-level charity and possibly trying to take the locals' jobs. While not really intimidated, Iceman decided to leave and, after a very weird day in which he received some money, he considered about setting up a limited liability company in Delaware to help the people and provide money to his allies the Morlocks, which was tentatively christened Frostbite.[9]

Alternate Realities[]

Earth-138 (Punk Universe)[]

Spider-Band (Earth-138), Hobart Brown (Earth-138), Riri Williams (Earth-138), Karl Morningdew (Earth-138), Kamala Khan (Earth-138), Bruce Banner (Earth-138) from Spider-Punk Vol 1 2 001

The Spider-Band tour included Wilmington and Dover, both in Delaware

When Spider-Punk started a music band, the Spider-Band, they went on a tour including Dover and Wilmington, both in Delaware, because they had found a map of secret based linked to Ozzy Osborn they wanted to investigate.[53]

Earth-295 (Age of Apocalypse)[]

On Earth-295 (Age of Apocalypse), Matthew Risman was a violent, anti-mutant young man who tried to spread his hatred to his sister Zora. They both joined the anti-mutant resistance, but got separated from their unit and planned to walk through the Schuylkill River until they could reach Delaware. En route, they found a family of mutants (two parents with their two children); Matthew murdered the parents and one of the kids was killed trying to escape. Matthew wanted to capture the last mutant kid alive for Zora to kill, and left a gun for her to act; but eventually Zora did not act and Matthew killed the kid on his own, reprimanding her sister for not being a murdering bigot.[54]

Earth-1218 (Our Reality)[]

Marvel artists born in Delaware[]

Several Marvel artists were born in Delaware, including:

Marvel artists with other links to Delaware[]

  • Tom Brevoort (New York City, 1967) moved to Delaware with his family when he was a teenager. He attended Glasgow High School, Newark, and then studied illustration at the Delaware University, which demanded students to do internship in companies linked to it and, when he heard a student had done such at Marvel, he decided to try it too; he also began working at Marvel after licensing in 1989.[61]
  • Frank Dunkerley (Paterson, New Jersey, September 1973) lives in Middletown, Delaware, with his wife Marie.[62]
  • The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington has exhibited the works of other Marvel artists, including Richard Hescox (b. 1949)[63][64] and Thomas Kidd (b. 1955).[65]

Other links between Delaware and Marvel[]

Howard Duckson (Earth-47920) from Delaware Vallye Comicart Convention 1977 Program Book 001

Cover of the Delaware Valley Comicart Convention 1977 Program Book

The Delaware Valley Comicart Consortium was a short-lived publisher (possibly active only in 1977)[66] that published one issue linked to Howard the Duck,[66][67] apparently an authorized issue linked to the Delaware Valley Comicart Convention '1977 that may have also doubled as the program book.[67]

In 1991, X-Men (Vol. 2) #1 was published and became the best-selling single edition comic book of all-time, entering the Guinness Book of Records.[68] In December that same year, reputed Sothesby's auctioned comic-books for the very first time.[69] The originals of X-Men Vol 2 #1, with original art by Lee,[68] were sold to librarian Bill Woo,[68][69] of Comicmania[69] in Stanton, Delaware, for $44,000 (equivalent to $101,112.31 in January, 2025, considering inflation).[68][69] Woo declared he did so because he loved Lee's art, and also as an investment and to show in his store.[69]

In 1993, Marvel fan Melody Spaller, from Dover, Delaware, corrected a typo in Super Sabre's profile in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #14, that was published in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #31. Spaller pointed that the events stated to have taken place in Quasar Vol 1 #78 had actually taken place instead in Quasar #18 (Quasar Vol 1 only reached #60, and was only in #47 at that point).[70]

The Marvel Publishing division of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. was incorporated as Marvel Publishing, Inc. in the state of Delaware on October 3, 2005.[71]

President of the United States Joe Biden, who has appeared in Marvel comics in a fictionalized version, had been a senator for Delaware during his early career, from 1973 to 2008.[72]

Earth-400005 (The Incredible Hulk TV series)[]

On Earth-400005, Wilmington, Delaware, was an American city served by train and had a boxing ring that was also used for wrestling matches (A certain wrestler's gimmick included a hanging cage that was lowered onto the ring). Although it did not seem like a dangerous city, it was not without crime: muggings on the street were not uncommon (even if some people did jog in these areas), and there was a heroin ring in which Mr. Sariego, gym owner and boxing sponsor, was involved. Sariego had to deliver large stashes of heroin to people in the city, for which he used, as a delivery boy, Henry "Rocky" Welsh, an aspiring boxer with a high blood pressure condition, to whom he gave some money and allowed him to train at the gym. Since the heroin was wrapped in bandages, Welsh believed that his deliveries had to do with gambling debts, and did not suspect that it was something highly illegal; and also hoped to win Sariego's favor so that he could have a fight, ideally against the would-be champion Bill Cole. Welsh's girlfriend Mary and his friend Tommy (also a regular at the gym) believed that Welsh did not have boxing material, and instead tried to get Welsh to use his other talent of repairing cars; but Welsh fervently wanted a chance as a boxer and ignored them, spending so many hours at the gym that Mary had to visit him to bring him food, otherwise he would forget to even eat.[73]

David Banner (Earth-400005), Henry Welsh (Earth-400005), Wilmington, Delaware from The Incredible Hulk (TV series) Season 1 3 001

David Banner and "Rocky" Welsh in Wilmington, Delaware

Shortly after his initial transformation into the Hulk and becoming a fugitive, David Banner hopped off a train in Wilmington at night, only to be immediately assaulted by two muggers. He was rescued by Welsh, who was jogging through that route, and, especially kindly, Welsh offered Banner (who adopted the alias "David Benson") a ride to Welsh's house to get cleaned up and recuperate. Banner revealed himself to have been a doctor and healed Welsh of a blow received while sparring. Grateful, Welsh offered Banner a few days' stay at his house and a recommendation for a job at the gym. Banner impressed Sariego enough to hire him as a physical therapist; then Banner saw Sariego send Welsh on a delivery. Banner offered to handle such deliveries so Welsh could train, but Sariego turned Banner down in a way that made him suspicious. After meeting Mary, Banner accompanied Welsh on another delivery at the end of the day; but the muggers Welsh had chased away earlier returned with reinforcements and the five of them attacked Welsh for a beating. Banner, not a fighter, was beaten and ignored; but then Banner turned into the monstrous Hulk, who took out the criminals, putting them to flight and breaking through a wall in the process. The Hulk did not attack Welsh, and Banner later claimed not to have seen the green giant. However, in the process the package broke, revealing a large amount of heroin. This appearance of the Hulk attracted the attention of reporter Jack McGee, who was tracking him and went to Wilmington.[73]

David Banner (Earth-400005) from The Incredible Hulk (TV series) Season 1 3 001

One of the first public sightings of the Hulk (Earth-400005) was in Wilmington, Delaware

The next day, Welsh went to Sariego privately to ask for an explanation, recommending that he go to the police but not wanting to cause trouble for the man who had helped him. Sariego falsely claimed that he had needed money and had been forced into this, but that he would not do it again, and offered to arrange a fight that same night between Cole and Welsh. Outside Sariego's office, Banner recommended that Welsh go to the police; Welsh decided, however, to go to the police only after the fight. Sariego had anticipated this, and really both he and Tommy knew that someone like Welsh, outclassed and with a medical condition, could easily die during the fight. However, to be on the safe side, Sariego prepared a drug that would not show up in blood tests, which they would give to Welsh in a water bottle during the fight. Banner overheard this, and attempted to break into Sariego's office to get the bottle for someone like Mary or Tommy to take to the police, but Sariego returned with his people, found Banner snooping around, and they beat him unconscious. Not having time to kill him, they bound and gagged him, and hid him in the cage until after the match. The cage was vertically on top of the ring during the match, which McGee attended without any interest. As Cole beat down Welsh, Banner transformed into the Hulk, opened the cage, and jumped into the ring, recognizing Welsh as a friend to protect. A man called McGee's attention (who had been engrossed reading) to this unforeseen event. The referee tried to throw Hulk out, but Hulk tackled him. Cole attacked Hulk, only to be slammed out of the ring. Hulk then spotted Sariego and his accomplice Wilt in the audience and chased them down, pushing a man who wanted to hire Hulk. Sariego and Wilt went to Sariego's office to gather incriminating evidence before fleeing, but Hulk kicked the door down on Hulk, then threw Sariego across the room. The match's audience arrived, but McGee prevented them from entering, claiming that Hulk was a murderer. Hulk, rather than attack anyone else, fled through the window. McGee discovered incriminating evidence against Sariego in the room, and the police arrested him for drug trafficking and attempted murder. McGee then decided to write an entire article about Welsh, who had decided not to fight again. Upon hearing this, Banner decided to leave town, purportedly going to Pittsburgh on business, to avoid being seen by McGee, who believed him dead.[73]

Earth-199999 (Marvel Cinematic Universe)[]

In reaction to the 2012 Battle of New York, law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. developed the secret operation Project Insight to identify rising superhuman threats; due to the infiltration of the criminal group Hydra, Insight also sought out potential threats to Hydra's plans using algorithms developed by Dr. Arnim Zola. Delaware was one of Project Insight's intended targets, because some of its inhabitants were identified by this algorithm.[74]

Hydra's Secret Laboratory in Delaware[]

Dover, Delaware, Jemma Simmons (Earth-199999) from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 3 003

Hydra's Dover laboratory

After S.H.I.E.L.D. was disbanded and declared a criminal organization, and while Phil Coulson attempted to rebuild the agency,[75] Hydra used a lab in Delaware as their base. The lab was under the command of Hydra leader Daniel Whitehall,[76] who had Sunil Bakshi as his right-hand man (and also as the handler of superhuman assassin Absorbing Man).[75] At the time, Coulson and Hydra were attempting to recruit former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents themselves, competing for them;[76] S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Jemma Simmons began working at Hydra's Dover, Delaware lab (though it was really an undercover operation for Coulson), so she took up an apartment in Delaware where she kept fit with a treadmill.[76] Another of Coulson's undercover agents, Bobbi Morse, rose to become head of security at Hydra's Delaware laboratory, but she did not have access to the projects themselves, only to the facilities, thus the need for a double-pronged infiltration. Coulson asked Morse to keep an eye on Simmons, without telling Simmons that Morse was on their team.[77] Other people working in this lab were Dr. Lingenfelter and her scientific team;[77] Kenneth Turgeon, a methodical scientist who worked on the same team as Simmons but in a higher position; and Theo, the doorman, who was in charge of checking incoming and outgoing material. Hydra had also captured former S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 33, whom Whitehall was torturing using the Faustus Method at the Delaware lab in an attempt to brainwash her.[76] One of Turgeon and Simmons' projects involved analyzing the red milk produced by the cow Bessie;[77] Simmons was unhappy with being in rudimentary biochemistry and molecular analysis which was not taking advantage of her potential,[76] and she did not even know Whitehall, answering to Turgeon and above him, to Bakshi.[77]

Carl Creel (Earth-199999), Delaware from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 2 001

The Absorbing Man (sitting on the left) in the Halfway House Cafe, Delaware

An important goal of Whitehall was to obtain the Obelisk (also known as the Diviner and the original 0-8-4),[75] an object of alien origin[78] that had been obtained by Hydra General Werner Reinhardt (secretly Whitehall), then confiscated by the Strategic Scientific Reserve in 1945, and held in storage by S.H.I.E.L.D. ever since;[75] Whitehall had recovered a youthful appearance using the Obelisk,[79] but he kept this information hidden even from Hydra. Following the recent debacle of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Obelisk was placed in storage by the U.S. government in a facility overseen by Brigadier General Glenn Talbot; but former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Roger Browning offered to sell intelligence about it, and the Absorbing Man stole the files for Bakshi; Hydra paid the Absorbing Man in rare musgravite gemstones, possibly obtained in the lab. Gaining this information, Whitehall sent the Absorbing Man to attack Talbot in order to find out where the facility was exactly. Coulson's people rescued Talbot, and then Coulson sent an operation to seize the Obelisk before Hydra could get it. The Absorbing Man obtained the Obelisk, killing two of Coulson's three agents (Isabelle Hartley and Idaho; the third agent, Lance Hunter survived).[75] The Absorbing Man traveled to the Halfway House Cafe, a restaurant off the highway in Delaware that was his primary drop site, to deliver the Obelisk to his contact Bakshi, unaware that Coulson's agent Melinda May had been keeping tabs on him. At the café, the Absorbing Man realized that he had unwittingly absorbed the Obelisk's properties, despite having taken precautions, and when a waitress accidentally touched his arm while cleaning the table, she began to turn to stone until she died horribly. The Absorbing Man escaped, and May was instructed not to interfere - though she entered the restaurant to see what was happening, after the Absorbing Man had already escaped. The authorities sealed the place.[80] Later, Creel attempted to deliver the Obelisk to Bakshi in a park, but the Obelisk was intercepted by Raina, an agent of Doctor Calvin Zabo (who was aligned with neither Hydra nor S.H.I.E.L.D.), and then Coulson captured the Absorbing Man and delivered it to Talbot.[80]

As Whitehall continued to brainwash Agent 33 at the Dover laboratory, Simmons entered his routine work even ahead of time, and Turgeon asked her to send him an analysis report as soon as possible that related to Donnie Gill's freezing powers (though Simmons did not have access to that information), which emitted liquid nitrogen by ambient action, rather than being genetic as had been initially theorized. Later that day, Turgeon's superiors summoned him to give him all the available data, catching him flat-footed; Simmons offered to accompany him, but Turgeon forbade it, because she was not allowed to know all the details that were to be discussed, and because he feared she would overshadow him in front of Whitehall. Simmons saw that Turgeon was carrying among his papers a photo of Gill, whom she recognized as a former S.H.I.E.L.D. cadet, but Turgeon refused to give her any details, saying that Gill was simply a new Hydra asset. Simmons returned to her apartment to discover that Coulson had broken in without permission (also stocking her empty pantry), and she briefed him while he cooked for her and while they had dinner together. They correctly concluded that Gill had superpowers, and that Hydra intended to recruit him, possibly as a weapon. Coulson insisted that Simmons make contacts with her colleagues at the Dover lab; she had trouble lying as openly as would be necessary, but decided to try to invite Turgeon to karaoke.[76]

Dover, Delaware, Jemma Simmons (Earth-199999) from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 3 002

Jemma Simmons walks to work in Dover, Delaware

Before she could do that, however, Simmons was summoned to the upper floors of the lab the next day, escorted by two guards, for questioning by Bakshi. Using "selective truths" as Coulson had suggested, Simmons skirted the issue, leaving everything as unfounded suspicions: Simmons had admitted to being a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent from day one; everything she had learned about the "Project Blizzard" involving Gill had been the day before; and Simmons had met Gill only briefly in S.H.I.E.L.D. Bakshi wanted to ask Whitehall for support with the Simmons case, but Whitehall decided to leave it up to Bakshi while he focused on brainwashing Agent 33 - which he then succeeded at. Bakshi decided to test Simmons' loyalty to Hydra by sending her on a mission to recruit Gill in Morocco[76], using the excuse of taking advantage of a face Gill would recognize as friendly. Although Gill was re-brainwashed, his body was lost and the operation failed due to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intervention - but S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Melinda May, who knew of Simmons' covert operation, maintained her cover by having Simmons save Bakshi. Upon returning to Dover, Bakshi proposed to Whitehall that Simmons be promoted now that she had proven her loyalty by protecting Bakshi (although Bakshi did not rule out a brainwash if he discovered anything bad about her). Still, admitting that S.H.I.E.L.D. could become a danger,[76] Whitehall ordered Bakshi not to return to the lab until further notice.[81]

Whitehall sent Agent 33 on a field operation in Miami with Bakshi, but she was defeated and captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.,[81] after which Bakshi was given permission to return to the Dover lab. Simultaneously, Lingenfelter began field tests in an attempt to develop a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to reverse-engineer the effects of the Obelisk using tissue samples from the waitress accidentally killed by Absorbing Man (and killing United States Navy officers from an anti-Hydra unit in the process).[77]

Whitehall called a meeting with many of her scientists. Lingenfelter explained her work, which she found satisfactory, but Whitehall believed was insufficient. Whitehall surprisingly asked for the opinion of Simmons, whom he had not met in person before; and Simmons defended Lingenfelter's work, considering an important progress even if Lingenfelter had not had access to the real Obelisk: Simmons believed that, once they obtained the Obelisk, they could weaponize it - something Simmons found troubling, unlike Turgeon, who liked the idea. Turgeon was however jealous that Simmons had attracted Whitehall's attention.[77]

Dover, Delaware, Jemma Simmons (Earth-199999) from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 5 001

Jemma Simmons in Delaware, while spied by Raina

Meanwhile, Whitehall threatened to kill Raina if she did not hand over the Obelisk to him, but Zabo refused to hand it over to Raina because Raina had failed another mission for him. Worried, Raina went to the Hydra lab to try to negotiate with Whitehall. Upon entering the building, Raina noticed Simmons leaving, discreetly followed her, and saw her sitting in a nearby park, ostensibly for lunch, but actually to send Coulson a message through her Flex Screen, warning that Hydra planned to develop weapons of mass destruction with the Obelisk. Raina photographed Simmons and contacted Coulson to extort him with the possibility of blowing Simmons' cover. Coulson, meeting Raina at a restaurant, rejected the blackmail, knowing that he still has undercover Morse to draw out Simmons, and took the opportunity to put a tracker on Raina to find Zabo.[77]

Even before receiving Raina's evidence, Bakshi discovered that someone had used a Flex Screen to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. in the area, and alerted Morse and several guards. Morse had the scientists stand back from their desks, hands behind their backs, and attempted to intimidate Simmons to evaluate her loyalty. One of the guards then found the Flex Screen... on Turgeon's desk, where Simmons had left it to avoid suspicion. Though Turgeon denied seeing it, Morse had the guards knock him out and take him away bound and gagged, to be tortured by Bakshi. When Simmons believed herself safe, Morse followed her into the bathroom to further interrogate her, suggesting that Turgeon might have an associate and that she would investigate Simmons' hard drive, which she seized; Simmons lied about the accusations, but Morse did not believe her (although the hard drive was not a problem for Simmons as it only contained Hydra files). It was then that many of the Hydra agents in the lab received the incriminating images pointing to Simmons; Bakshi quickly arrived with two armed guards and Simmons, realizing she had been discovered, attempted to escape down the hallway. She ran into Morse blocking her escape but, to her surprise, Morse attacked the guards with her battle staves, and revealed herself to be another of Coulson's agents, with a plan to have Simmons extracted through the roof. While Morse dealt with another guard, Bakshi found Simmons, and Morse's cover was also compromised. Both Mores and Simmons made it to the roof, where they saw no one to pick them up, and Morse engaged in a shootout with the guards. Following directions, they both jumped from the southwest corner of the building, and were picked up by a cloaked Quinjet, where they met up with S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Antoine Triplett. They returned to the secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base, "Playground."[77]

Following this fiasco, Whitehall realized that the base had been compromised and arranged with Bakshi to evacuate and dismantle the Dover Laboratory, moving its operations to a Warehouse at an unknown location as a temporary base. While Whitehall's office was being cleared, Calvin Zabo entered the base, killing two guards to make his way to Whitehall's office. Bakshi reached for his gun, but Whitehall was interested in Zabo's motives, and Zabo explained that he had come to deliver the Obelisk to Whitehall, and was even willing to explain how to use it without dying; in exchange, Zabo wanted help in killing a common enemy, Coulson, and several others who stood in their way.[77]

Non-Hydra Activities in Delaware[]

Two years later, the Ghost Rider was sent to the Hell dimension during a battle in Los Angeles,[82] leaving behind his car, the Hell Charger. Ghost Rider's allies in S.H.I.E.L.D. stored the vehicle in an impound garage they owned outside of Dover. When the Ghost Rider returned to Earth weeks later to challenge Aida and retrieve the Darkhold grimoire, he retrieved the vehicle first. Only after Ghost Rider attacked Aida did S.H.I.E.L.D. discover he had stolen his own car, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson reported the event to Coulson.[83]

Later, when the Punisher murdered gang members in New York City, some members of the motorcycle gang Dogs of Hell, including one named Smitty, were found dead in Delaware, along Interstate 95. District Attorney Samantha Reyes speculated that if she could link Castle to those deaths, he could be extradited to Delaware, where he would be sentenced to death, a penalty that he could not face in New York.[84]

Madame Gao's faction of the criminal organization The Hand sold its "Steel Serpent" product (pure heroine produced with the powder of dragon bones) to at least one customer in Pike Creek, Delaware, using the resources of Rand Enterprises.[85]

After Jamaican bushman Paul "Anansi" Mackintosh, uncle and mentor of John "Bushmaster" McIver, was killed by Mariah Stokes, his associates wanted to give him a proper burial. Sheldon, a friend and associate of Bushmaster, sent the coffin to Delaware by boat as a stopover before having it delivered to Jamaica, as he reported to Stokes's estranged daughter Tilda Johnson.[86]

Earth-TRN836 (Helstrom TV series)[]

On Earth-TRN836, the Oregon Examiner newspaper reported a news story related to a career State department official who had raised concerns in 2015 about a senator from Delaware being on the board of a European natural-gas firm, and five years later the official reported to congressional investigators this "I told you so" when the information turned out to be relevant.[87]

Ideaverse[]

Magua (Ideaverse), Delaware people from Marvel Classics Comics Series Featuring Last of the Mohicans Vol 1 1 001

The Delaware people in the Ideaverse

"Delaware" was the name given by the Europeans to the indigenous people of the United States and Canada called Lenape, because they lived on or by the Delaware River. The territory of the Delaware people covered present-day northeastern Delaware State, as well as all of New Jersey and parts of New York and Pennsylvania. James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, adapted as the graphic novel Marvel Classics Comics Series Featuring Last of the Mohicans #1 (1977) and as the comic series Marvel Illustrated: Last of the Mohicans (2007), prominently featured members of the Delaware tribe, there also called Mohicans[88] (although several tribes, other than the Delawares, were also called Mohicans).[89] In that part of the Ideaverse, some high-ranking Delawares painted tortoises on their bodies[90] and were led by councils, with an aristocracy that could be tracked at least until the 17th century so that a Delaware man would be respected if he could trace his ancestorship to a chief of yonder times; main character Uncas was proven to have such pedigree, and other such "of the high blood of the Delawares" were Tamenund[91] and Chingachgook.[90] The Delawares were shown as despising the treacherous Iroquois tribe, or Hurons, called Mingos by the Delawares;[92] still, the Delawares shared language with the Hurons and the Oneidas. In the story, the Delawares and other tribes were described as having been led to conflict with other native peoples due to chaos caused by the cunning of the white people,[90] including conflicts between Delawares and Mohawks; after those wars, more sympathetic white people admitted that the Delawares had been wronged.[89] Simultaneously, white man Nathaniel Bumppo was widely respected by the Delawares,[92] in a fraternal relationship with a Delaware chief; the Delawares nicknamed him complimentarily as Hawkeye[91] and, before that, as Deerslayer.[92]

Points of Interest

Delaware, Smyrna from New Warriors Vol 3 6 001

Smyrna, Delaware, was among the nicest towns in the US

Residents

Jackson Day (Earth-616) from Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 2 3 0001

The Corruptor, a Delaware-born supervillain, later became mayor of his birth town

Notes

Trivia

  • When Doctor Doom became the emperor of the world, one of the issues he had to deal was a request from the State of Delaware, wanting to secede from the Union (apparently the Union being the United States of America).[1] This is not lacking in irony, as Delaware is nicknamed "The First State" because, in December 1787, it was the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
  • Shatterstar and Strong Guy described an explosion caused when Tier Sinclair jumped on Hela's arms as "It was like matter meets anti-matter on a keg of dynamite the size of Delaware." This was likely hyperbolic and not accurate.[94]
  • On Earth-199999, while having lunch outside the Hydra laboratory in Dover, Delaware, Jemma Simmons was enjoying a packed lunch tagged with the logo of "Pescado Loco", apparently a to-go restaurant franchise active in Dover on her universe.[95]

See Also

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