BOLT

Real Name: Lawrence "Larry" Evans

Identity/Class: Human technology user

Occupation: Thief

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Daredevil (Matt Murdock)

Known Relatives: Unidentified wife, unidentified child

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New York City

First Appearance: Spider-Man I#74 (November, 1996)

Powers/Abilities: Bolt's suit can fire high-powered energy blasts from its left arm.  It also provides him with superhuman strength and durability.  The armor has a notable weak spot in its abdomen.

History: (Spider-Man I#74 (fb) ) - Lawrence Evans stole an armored battlesuit from parties unknown.

(Spider-Man I#74) - Taking the name Bolt, Evans broke into a bank late at night.  After neutralizing the guards and grabbing a bag of cash, he ran right into Daredevil.  After a brief battle, Daredevil jammed his billy club into a chink in Bolt's armor, knocking Evans out.  Waking up several minutes later tied to a pole, Evans was interrogated by Daredevil.  Although he refused to divulge who he'd stolen the armor from, as they'd kill him if they knew he'd taken it, Evans did tell Daredevil that he'd heard Vincente Fortunato was planning to execute Spider-Man that night.  Thanking Larry and promising to have his "lawyer friend" Matt Murdock call him, Daredevil swung away to rescue the wall-crawler.

Comments: Created by Howard Mackie, John Romita, Jr., & Al Williamson.

No idea who Bolt stole the armor from.  Could have been Fortunato and/or his Hydra allies, I suppose, but one would figure it'd have been green if that were the case...

Profile by Minor Irritant.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Bolt has no known connections to

• Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon), hilariously-named king of the Inhumans @ Fantastic Four I#45
• Bolt (Chris Bradley), former New Warrior, adopted Maverick identity, killed @ Maverick II#8
• Bolt of Earth-X, android duplicate of Quicksilver @ Earth X: X
• Bolt, Andrew, US Congressman, endorsed by Skrull Captain America @ Captain America III#4
• Bolt, Jacob, brother of Jefferson @ Marvel Team-Up I#3
• Bolt, Jefferson, transformed into pseudo-vampire by Morbius @ Marvel Team-Up I#3
• or any other big yellow armored guys

images: (without ads)
Spider-Man #74, p1, pan6 (main image)
Spider-Man #74, p4, pan4 (helmetless)

Appearances:
Spider-Man I#74 (November, 1996) - Howard Mackie (writer), John Romita, Jr. (penciler), Al Williamson (inker), Ralph Macchio (editor)

Last updated: 11/09/07

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