NEMESIS
Real Name: Edward Stanford
Identity/Class: Human
Occupation: Criminal mastermind, district
attorney
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Various criminal cohorts and thugs in his employment
Enemies: Captain Universe (Ann Dodgson Stanford), Captain Universe (Clare Dodgson)
Known Relatives: Ann Dodgson Stanford (wife), Jenny Stanford (daughter), Johnny Stanford (son), Clare Dodgson (sister-in-law)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight II#10 (January, 1981)
Powers/Abilities: Nemesis had no actual superpowers but was a very skilled criminal leader, employing lots of thugs.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'11")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 160 lbs.)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
History:
(Marvel Spotlight II#10 (fb) - BTS) - Edward Stanford married Ann
Dodgson and they had two children, Jenny and Johnny. At some point,
Edward began masquerading as the crime boss Nemesis to provide extra
money for his family, figuring crime was the only way to gain big
money, and he soon took a job as Phoenix, Arizona's district attorney
in an effort to throw suspicions off of his criminal dual identity.
(Marvel Spotlight II#10) - As district attorney, Edward Stanford helped convict two criminal thugs who worked for him in his Nemesis identity. After the trial, two more Nemesis thugs grabbed Edward and pushed him into a car, claiming that he had an appointment with "Nemesis."
Later that night, private
detective Clare Dodgson arrived at her twin sister
Ann's house, where she felt a sense of dread and that her sister was
in trouble. Clare jumped through the window and surprised the thugs who
were
holding her sister at gunpoint. During the fight, both Clare and Ann
were
tapped by the Uni-Power
and were transformed both into separate Captain
Universes. Using their newfound powers, Ann probed one of the thugs'
minds and found that Nemesis had "kidnapped" her husband,
Edward Stanford, unaware that Stanford himself was Nemesis. Following
the trail of Nemesis' thugs, the duo of Captain
Universes tracked Nemesis to the Phoenix Drive-In Movie Theatre, where
the
found him meeting with his criminal cohorts. After a brief battle,
Nemesis
attempted to make his escape via car. Nemesis then tried to run over to
the
two Captain Universes but instead, ran the car off a cliff and crashed.
The
duo then arrived to save Edward Stanford, only to realize that he did
not seem to be in
the car. Unmasking the beaten Nemesis, they discovered that Nemesis was
in fact
Edward himself and that Edward was using the guise of Nemesis to bring
more
money into his family. He admitted his beliefs that crime was the way
to gain the "big money" and that he only played the role of district
attorney to keep anyone from suspecting he was Nemesis.
Comments: Created by Bill Mantlo and Steve
Ditko.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
This character, Nemesis, has no known connections to
Appearances:
Marvel Spotlight II#10 (January, 1981) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Steve
Ditko (art), Al Milgrom (editor)
First posted: 11/12/2004
Last updated: 11/27/2023
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