LARCENOUS LIL
Real Name: Lilith Moll
Identity/Class:
Normal human
Occupation:
Prisoner;
formerly criminal mastermind
Group Membership:
None
Affiliations: Larcenous thugs, Big Wheel, Chairman,
Demolition
Derby, Elektro,
Fly,
Home Wrecker,
Hotshot,
Human
Computer, Hypno-Hustler, June
Jitsui, Legal
Eagle, Photoman,
Printout
Man, Simon the Evil Swami
Enemies: Spider-Man
Known Relatives:
None
Aliases: Boss
lady
Base of Operations: S-Wing,
unnamed prison in New York state, USA
First Appearance:
Hostess Fruit Pies ad "The Trap" from Micronauts I#18
(June, 1980) and other issues published in that
month
Powers/Abilities:
At best, Lil was a normal human. She was an
overweight-looking, middle-aged woman who looked like she did not
participate in any amount of physical exercise. She relied on her hired
thugs to perform her tasks. However, she and her thugs did have access
to a very strong net - strong enough that Spider-Man was not able to
break through it.
History:
(Spider-Man in "The Trap")- The
dastardly criminal mastermind, Larcenous Lil, and two of her hired
thugs were waiting on the top of a building with a sturdy net to
capture
Spider-Man. As if right on schedule and as predicted by Larcenous Lil,
Spider-Man's webs swung by carrying the hero, and her criminal henchmen
then dropped a net on
him. Spider-Man was then captured and awaited his fate. Larcenous Lil
told the hapless hero that he was going on a one-way ride and she
departed soon after, leaving a henchman behind with a gun. Spider-man
began to beg the criminal to be a nice guy and let him go, but his
captor replied "not for a million bucks." Using the power of Hostess
Twinkies, he persuaded the thug to let him go. Larcenous Lil, having
returned to her lair, was soon caught by Spider-man who broke
in and webbed her
up.
(Fin Fang Four Return!#1/5 (fb) -
BTS) - Larcenous Lil was imprisoned somewhere in NY state.
(Fin Fang Four Return!#1/5) - The
robot Elektro, mistakenly identified as a villain and arrested, was
ushered into the prison's S-Wing where he met various past Spider-Man
villains,
including Larcenous Lil. Later, inspired by Elektro's defiance, she and
the other inmates of S-Wing smashed their way out only to be subdued by
the prison guards using sedation foam.
Comments:
Created by unknown writer, penciler and inker.
Of all the Hostess
villains, only Icemaster
has shown up in an Earth-616 title. He could have crossed over to
Earth-616 from "Earth-Hostess," but I say leave them on Earth-616 until
proven otherwise. Nonetheless, until they do show up in regular
continuity, they remain outside regular canon. Surely someone will
write a story teaming them all together.---Snood.
And now they've been
found! ... in a dark corner of an ignored prison
...
You can get the whole
Hostess story, and some clever commentary from Seanbaby's
The Hostess
Page. It might
not meet with the Comics Code Authority's approval, so kids, ask your
parents before checking that out!
Perhaps the
awesome
mind-altering powers of Twinkies
has been neutralized to prevent its will-sapping power falling into
the wrong hands...---Grendel Prime
Her real name was revealed in Elektro's profile in OHotMU A-Z Update 2010#2.
Profile
by AvatarWarlord72.
CLARIFICATIONS
:
Larcenous Lil has no known connections to:
- Diamond Lil
(Lillian Crawley), Gamma Flight, Omega Flight, Alpha Flight, 198,
captured and experimented on by Department H
@ Alpha Flight
I#1
- Larcenous
Three, (Badd Axe, Firearms, Vampiro) - criminals,
battled
Spider-Man and Nova
@ Nova III#5
- or any other
"Larcenous" or
"Lil" characters
Larcenous Thugs
Two unnamed male criminals were
employed by Larcenous Lil and helped capture Spider-Man with a very
strong net. One of the men was left behind and held Spider-Man at
gunpoint
while Larcenous Lil and the other thug returned to their lair. The
criminal, not seeming to be that bright, was bribed with the power of
Hostess Twinkies and let Spider-man go. His fate, as well as that of
his buddy's, remains unknown as they were not seen when Spider-Man
captured Larcenous Lil.
--Hostess Fruit Pies ad "The Trap"
images:
(without ads)
Hostess Fruit Pies ad "The Trap", pan 3 (main image)
Fin Fang Four Return!#1/5, p6, pan1 (head shot)
Hostess Fruit Pies ad "The Trap", pan 2 (thugs)
Appearances:
Hostess Ad: Spider-Man in "The Trap" (June, 1980)
Fin Fang Four Return!#1/5 (July, 2009) - Scott Gray (writer), Roger
Langridge (artist), John Barber (editor)
First Posted: 06/19/2007
Last updated: 05/09/2009
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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