Character/Marvel
Kid Ock / Spider-Kid / Steel Spider
Oliver "Ollie" Osnick is a teenager who idolized Doctor Octopus, and led a group of teenaged super-villain admirers. As a genius level intelligence, Ollie developed his own set of mechanical tentacles like Doc Ock's and began imitating him, calling himself 'Kid Ock'. Spider-Man comes across Ollie committing a crime, but let's him go with a stern talking to upon realizing he was just a kid. After the encounter with Spider-Man, Ollie becomes obsessed with Spider-Man as well, and he modifies his tentacles into spider legs and puts on a Spider-Man Halloween costume, changing his secret identity to 'Spider-Kid'. Later on, during college, Ollie's girlfriend is paralyzed by muggers, and Ollie again modifies his mechanical tentacles to suit a new identity: this time, Steel Spider, a hybrid of his two idols with lethal and non-lethal weaponry. In this incarnation he wears gauntlets which house grappling hook launchers and pepper spray blasters, and his mechanical limbs contain additional weapons.
Character history
Across the catalog
The Spectacular Spider-Man
1976–1998
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