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As soon as Professor Stromm was released from the state prison, he was picked up by ex-con Max Young.[1]
After he was caught on Bedloe Island, Daredevil was taken into custody to the prison infirmary to recover, while a curious prisoner began to take off his mask.[2] Daredevil easily overpowered him and, covering his costume in a trench coat, he managed to get out the prison impersonating a doctor.[3] After a few days, Starr Saxon visited inmate Biggie Benson, who hired him to unleash his robot on Daredevil, in order to get revenge for his involvement in his arrest following the clearing of Willie Lincoln's name.[4] As the robot was then accidentally programmed to kill Biggie Benson, Daredevil rushed to the prison where Benson was being held prisoner, fighting his way into his cell, and passed out just as the robot busted through the wall.[5] Daredevil was unable to stop the robot from killing Benson. After Benson was terminated, the robot shut down, waiting for new instructions. After getting some medical treatment, on a hunch, DD hit its chest plate just as the robot was coming to life, causing its mechanisms to break and disabling the robot.[6]
When Kraven the Hunter allowed himself to be taken into custody after his latest attempt to defeat Spider-Man was dishonored by interference by his lover Calypso, he was incarcerated in the Maximum Security Section of New York State Prison. Not long afterwards, A.I.M. agent Ramona Starr posed as a reporter, Miss Clute, in order to infiltrate the prison, and used a venom-ring to drug and incapacitate the warden and a number of guards as she made her way to Kraven's cell. Keeping her true identity and motivation a secret, Starr identified herself as Ramona Courtland and offered Kraven money and his freedom if he would agree to track down, capture and bring to her his one-time foe, Ka-Zar, who was then in New York City. Kraven initially refused, claiming that he wouldn't need anyone's help to escape from the prison and that he was only there as a matter of pride. However, after learning that Calypso had already escaped from her prison, Kraven changed his mind and accepted Ramona's offer because he didn't want to stay in a place where he would be unable to avoid receiving Calypso when she sought him out.[7]
Years later, the Mad Thinker was found dead in his cell by one of the inmates.[8]
After serving his time, David Lowell was released from the New York State Penitentiary.[9]Notes
- According to Ka-Zar the Savage #20, New York State Prison was located 20 miles east of Manhattan. This information is a bit problematic, at least in regards to the realism of the Marvel universe, for two reasons:
- First, according to Wikipedia, as of 2024, there were 42 New York state prisons (i.e., prisons funded by the State of New York), all of which had individual names and none of which were called simply "New York State Prison."
- Second, none of those real world prisons were located 20 miles east of Manhattan, and the closest maximum-security prison, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, was about 30 miles north of Midtown Manhattan.
- Having said that, there is nothing that requires that the New York state prisons in the Marvel universe exactly match those in the real world.
See Also
- 39 appearance(s) of New York State Prison
- 1 minor appearance(s) of New York State Prison
- 6 mention(s) of New York State Prison
- 1 image(s) of New York State Prison