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| Nathan Dolly | |
| Aliases: | Brother Grimm Mister Doll |
| Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Type: | Supervillain |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Long Island, New York Los Angeles, California |
| Associations: | Brothers Grimm |
| Status: | Deceased |
| First: | Tales of Suspense #48 |
| Final: | Spider-Woman #12 |
Nathan Dolly is a fictional super-villain and a minor recurring antagonist featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is associated with the characters of Iron Man and Spider-Woman and first appeared in Tales of Suspense #48 in December, 1963.
Biography[]
When he traveled to Africa, Nathan Dolly befriended a witch doctor. He stole from them a magical moldable figurine which could be shaped to resemble an intended victim, and any type of damage inflicted on the figurine would be transferred to said person. Under the alias of Mister Doll, Nathan mastered the ability to reshape the figurine in mere seconds and started a criminal career.
He used the doll to torture and blackmail businessmen into signing over their fortunes to him. His third victim was Charleton Carter, a steel tycoon who was forced to prompty cut all business with Stark Industries. When Tony Stark drove to Carter's house to investigate the magnate's odd behavior, he discovered Mister Doll roaming on the premises. Stark donned his Iron Man Armor to confront Carter's assailant, but Mister Doll turned the doll on Iron Man. Faced by the pain inflicted by the figurine, Iron Man retreated.
When Mr. Doll attempted to extort Stark Industries, Iron Man encountered him once again and suffered the same fate as their last encounter. While Iron Man was able to better resist the pain due to his new armor, he still surrendered to Mister Doll's will to bluff him. Mr. Doll then proceeded to reshape the figurine in order to inflict pain on Tony Stark, without knowing Stark and Iron Man were the same person. Iron Man was able to endure the pain until Mr. Doll dismissed him. Once out of Doll's reach, Stark quickly built a device to defeat Dolly.
Iron Man burst into Mr. Doll's location, prompting the villain to reshape his figurine to Iron Man's image to punish him. Using a force beam, Iron Man caused the figurine to change shape into Mr. Doll himself. However, the change happened so fast Dolly was already dropping the figurine to the floor with the intention of causing harm to Iron Man through the figurine's damage from the fall. The resulting damage was passed into Mr. Doll instead of his intended victim, causing Nathan to pass out. Doll was then apprehended by the authorities. [1]
Later, in the process of creating the Brothers Grimm dolls, Nathan's consciousness was trapped simultaneously inside both doll mannequins. They were used by Nathan's wife Priscilla to power a pair of life size versions. She named them Jake and William (the names are a take on the Brothers Grimm), treated them as if they are her sons, and they in turn acted as if this were true. [2]
Priscilla planned to use her knowledge of the occult to transfer Nathan's mind from the mannequins to a living human body. These efforts were stopped by Spider-Woman, and Nathan's consciousness dispersed away. [3][4]
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- The character of Nathan Dolly was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.
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- ↑ Tales of Suspense 48
- ↑ Spider-Woman 3
- ↑ Spider-Woman 11
- ↑ Spider-Woman 12