First Appearance: "
Sting of the Scorpion"
First Comic Appearance: the Amazing Spider-Man, issue 20
A.K.A.: n/a
Love Interests: n/a
Eye Color: Brown
Team(s): the Insidious Six
Position: Deadly Spider-Man villain
Mac Gargan was a nobody who was hired by J. Jonah Jameson to stalk Peter Parker to find out how he gets the pictures of Spider-Man. When completely embarrassed by Spider-Man when Spider-Man webs him up against a bookcase, Gargan vows for revenge. Jameson decides to turn him into a superhero that will defeat Spider-Man. Dr. Stilwell uses the Neogenic Recombinator (who created the machine as well) to turn him into The Scorpion. He chose a scorpion because the scorpion is a natural predator of spiders.
After having defeated Spider-Man, Scorpion looks in a puddle, that shows his reflection as a monster. Enraged at what he now is, Gargan destroys half the city, saying he will only stop when he is turned back to normal. After being stopped and sent to jail, Scorpion breaks out, and becomes a thief.