Lt. Kris Keating

Lt. Kris Keating is a New York City police lieutenant who regularly crosses paths with Marvel street-level heroes, appearing in titles such as The Spectacular Spider-Man and Captain America as an authority figure navigating a world of costumed vigilantes.

A Marvel police procedural fixture born in the Bronze Age, Lt. Kris Keating stepped onto the scene in The Defenders #51 in 1977, courtesy of David Kraft and Keith Giffen, and proved durable enough to keep turning up across three decades of Marvel storytelling. With a presence spread across The Spectacular Spider-Man and Captain America, this is a character who moves in genuinely rarefied company — sharing pages with the likes of Spider-Man, Peter Parker, and Captain America himself. A modest appearance count only adds to the intrigue for dedicated Marvel completists hunting the connective tissue that holds street-level New York together.