Grim Hunter

The Grim Hunter is Vladimir Kravinoff, son of the legendary Kraven the Hunter, who takes up his father's obsessive legacy of the hunt — targeting Spider-Man to prove himself worthy of the Kravinoff name.

A creature of the hunt born in the mid-1990s Marvel Universe, Grim Hunter crashed onto the scene in Spider-Man #54 (1995) under the hands of Howard Mackie and Tom Lyle, stepping into one of comics' most dangerous and storied corners — the world of Kraven the Hunter. With a presence haunting the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man, this character keeps genuinely formidable company: Spider-Man, Kaine, Madame Web, and the Kravinoff legacy itself all share those charged, shadowy issues. Rare in the catalog but potent in context, Grim Hunter is the kind of figure whose small footprint only sharpens the intrigue — a dark, memorable piece of the sprawling, obsessive mythology that surrounds Marvel's most legendary big-game hunter.