Oscorp

Oscorp is a fictional business featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is part of the mainstream Marvel Universe and is associated with the Spider-Man line of comic titles. It first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man, Volume 1 #37 in June 1966.

Overview
Oscorp was a multinational corporation specializing in research and development. It was founded by Norman Osborn and his business partner Mendel Stromm, and was originally known as Osborn Industries. The corporate headquarters was based out of Oscorp Tower in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Stromm began embezzling money from the company, and was arrested and sent to prison. Afterward, Norman Osborn assumed complete control of the company.

Oscorp was awarded several military contracts and developed scientific devices and processes intended to benefit the country's armed forces divisions. Among these technological marvel's was a winged flying apparatus and a special type of hand grenade. Norman Osborn incorporated both of these devices as the Goblin Glider and Pumpkin bombs when he assumed the costumed identity of the Green Goblin.

Characters

 * Mendel Stromm: Co-founder and business partner. Managed the day-to-day operations of the company during its early years.
 * Norman Osborn: Co-founder and financier. Assumed complete control of Oscorp after Stromm was imprisoned.

Notes & Trivia

 * Is also known as Osborn Industries, Osborn Laboratories, and OsCorp International.


 * Divisions of Oscorp include Osborn Chemical and Osborn Manufacturing.


 * In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Oscorp was the company that genetically engineered the radioactive spider that ultimately bit Peter Parker, giving him his super-powers.


 * In the Spider-Man animated television series, Oscorp Tower was located in New Jersey, not New York.


 * Oscorp eventually evolved into the Alchemax corporation, which was run by Norman Osborn's former daughter-in-law, Liz Allan.

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