Der Geier

Der Geier ('The Vulture') is the German-language edition's version of the Vulture, Spider-Man's classic winged adversary who uses a electromagnetic harness to fly and commit crimes, serving as one of the wall-crawler's most persistent foes.

A creature of the Copper/Modern Age, Der Geier swooped onto the scene in 1997 with a debut crafted by the talented team of J. M. DeMatteis, Mark Bagley, and Reinhard Schweizer — and has been haunting the pages of Panini Deutschland's Spider-Man universe ever since. With nearly three decades of appearances across Spider-Man Komplett, Spider-Man, and Der sensationelle Spider-Man, this is a character with genuine staying power in the German-language corner of comics. The company alone is something — sharing pages with Spider-Man himself, Peter Parker, Adrian Toomes, and the formidable Otto Octavius puts Der Geier squarely in some of the most electrifying Spider-Man stories published for German-speaking readers. If you're diving into Panini's rich Spider-Man catalog, Der Geier is exactly the kind of character worth tracking down.