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Doppelganger
Doppelganger

Doppelganger

10 appearances Β· Copper/Modern Age Β· 1992–2024
Who is Doppelganger?

Doppelganger is a monstrous, six-armed spider-like duplicate of Spider-Man spawned during the Infinity War event, when the cosmic villain Magus created evil doubles of Earth's heroes. Feral and barely sentient, it operates on savage instinct rather than human intelligence.

Born from the chaos of the Infinity War crossover era, Doppelganger first lurched onto the Marvel stage in Quasar #38 in 1992, courtesy of writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Greg Capullo β€” a genuinely unsettling creation from one of the Copper Age's most fertile creative periods. This creature has carved out a dark niche in Marvel's nastier corners, keeping company with some of the publisher's most dangerous figures: Spider-Man, Venom, and Carnage all share pages with this thing, which tells you everything about the sinister neighborhood it inhabits. Collectors will find Doppelganger turning up across landmark collections like the Carnage Epic Collection and Extreme Carnage: Scream, as well as the more recent Chasm: Curse of Kaine, proving this Copper Age oddity has remarkable staying power well into the 2020s. If you love Marvel's darker, weirder edges β€” the corner where horror bleeds into superheroics β€” Doppelganger is absolutely worth tracking down.

β˜… First appearance
Quasar #38
Sep 1992

Top series

Covers through the years β€” 1992–2022

Marvel Comics Presents #112 1992
Marvel Comics Presents #112
Extreme Carnage: Scream #1 2021
Extreme Carnage: Scream #1
Carnage Epic Collection #1 2022
Carnage Epic Collection #1

Appearances

Quasar (1989)
#38
Marvel Comics Presents (1988)
Spider-Man Unlimited (1993)
#1
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964)
#27
Maximum Carnage (1994)
#1
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man 2005 (2005)
Extreme Carnage: Scream (2021)
#1
Venom Epic Collection (2020)
#2
Carnage Epic Collection (2022)
#1
Chasm: Curse of Kaine (2024)
#2