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Gorgon is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. ... Gorgon appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Inhumanity", ...
MacDonald "Mac" Gargan is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, [2] the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #19 (December 1964). [3]
During the Spider-Geddon storyline, Arnim Zola created a clone of the Gorgon that functioned as little more than a loyal goon, with intelligence and skills far inferior to the original. This clone ambushed the Superior Octopus to reclaim him for Hydra.
Gorgon – Each of them has snakes in place of their hair; sometimes also depicted with a snake-like lower body. Jorōgumo - Type of Japanese yōkai, depicted as a spider woman manipulating small fire-breathing spiders. Selkie – A seal that becomes a human by shedding its skin on land. Karasu-tengu – A crow-type Tengu.
Gorgon blood was said to have both the power to heal and harm. Representations of full-bodied Gorgons and the Gorgon face, called a gorgoneion (pl. gorgoneia), were popular subjects in Ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman iconography. While Archaic Gorgons and gorgoneia are universally depicted as hideously ugly, over time they came to be ...
Arachne (/ ə ˈ r æ k n iː /; from Ancient Greek: Ἀράχνη, romanized: Arákhnē, lit. 'spider', cognate with Latin araneus) [1] is the protagonist of a tale in Greek mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story. [2]
Size comparison between a person and Inostrancevia (reconstructed with long lips and some hair). Earlier gorgonopsids in the Middle Permian were quite small, with skull lengths of 10–15 cm (4–6 in), [1] whereas some later genera attained massive, bear-like sizes with the largest being Inostrancevia up to 3.5 m (11 ft) in length and 300 kg (660 lb) in body mass. [2]
Argiope aurantia is a species of spider, commonly known as the yellow garden spider, [2] [3] black and yellow garden spider, [4] golden garden spider, [5] writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or McKinley spider. [6] The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1833.