Typeface (comics)

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Typeface
Gordon Thomas (Earth-616) from Civil War Front Line Vol 1 3 0001.jpg
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Peter Parker: Spider-Man vol. 2 #23 (November 2000)
Created by Paul Jenkins
Mark Buckingham
In-story information
Alter egoGordon Thomas
PartnershipsSecret Avengers
Notable aliasesGeordie, Captain A-Face, Sesame Street Pete, Shakespeare
AbilitiesSkilled and intelligent combatant

Gordon Thomas, known better as Typeface, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Peter Parker: Spider-Man vol. 2 #23 (November 2000), and was created by Paul Jenkins and Mark Buckingham.

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Fictional character biography

What little is known about Typeface's past is seen in a flashback. In his civilian life as Gordon Thomas, he fights in an unknown war for the US Army in which he loses his brother Joey. Upon his return to America, Gordon's wife leaves him and takes their son with her. [1]

Feeling outcast, Gordon becomes a signsmith. He is happy for a time until a man named George Finch buys the company he is working for, Ace Signs, and Gordon is laid off. Gordon starts to hate everything that went wrong in his life and decides to become a super-villain, calling himself Typeface. He uses a grease pencil to write letters on his face, including a large, red "R" on his forehead, for "retribution". He begins committing vandalism throughout the city, and while attacking local thugs, he catches the attention of Spider-Man. Typeface uses his giant letters as weapons and manages to defeat the webslinger. [2] After successfully escaping and returning to his apartment, he replaces the "R" letter on his head with an "A" for "Annihilation". [1]

Thomas later seeks revenge against George Finch, but is stopped by Spider-Man. Typeface wants to kill Spider-Man for intervening, but when he sees the webslinger being attacked by the Spider-Hybrid, he has a flashback to the words his brother Joey once gave him: "Just live, man." Typeface decides to help Spider-Man defeat the Spider-Hybrid, and renounces his desire to kill Finch. However, Finch decides to exact revenge on Typeface for humiliating him, and finds the remote to the bombs Thomas would have used to kill him. Finch sets them off and demolishes an entire building and for a time it was believed that Typeface died in the explosion. [1]

Mysterious reappearance

Having survived the explosion, Typeface becomes a vigilante. He wages war against a gang called the "Penny-Ante Brigade". After taking out the gang (and another vigilante, Spellcheck, inspired by Typeface), Typeface mimics Spider-Man's note to police, left when he apprehends criminals: "Compliments from your friendly neighborhood Typeface." [3]

Civil War

Returning in Marvel's Civil War: Front Line , Typeface has chosen to side against the Superhuman Registration Act. He joins a small resistance cell that includes Battlestar, Gladiatrix, and Solo. During a visit by the reporter Sally Floyd, he talks about how he had held his brother who had died in a foreign country, Typeface feels his brother had died in the cause of freedom and this had motivated him to oppose the act. [4] Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attack, capturing Typeface and many other members of the group. Floyd and others escape. [5]

The prisoners are taken to a maximum security prison built in the Negative Zone called "Fantasy Island". While transferring, Typeface befriends Robbie Baldwin, otherwise known as Speedball. Both are concerned over the fate of a fellow prisoner adversely affected by the very nature of the Negative Zone. [6]

According to writer Paul Jenkins, he "may not survive the series," but when he dies his eyes will be covered by "little X's". [7] In Civil War: Frontline #10 he is slammed into a bus by Venom during the final battle. A quick examination of Typeface by a fleeing Ben Urich leads the Daily Bugle reporter to believe he is dead. Sally Floyd also witnesses the murder. [8] Post-death, Typeface's eyes were not seen.

In Civil War: Frontline #11, he is carried away in a stretcher, with the sheet pulled over all but his letter-covered arm. [9]

A recovered Typeface is later shown among the patrons of an underground casino that Spider-Man, Deadpool, and Saturn visit on Christmas. [10]

Reception

In 2020, CBR.com ranked Typeface 10th in their "Marvel: 10 Famous Villains From The 2000s To Bring Back" list. [11]

In other media

An alternate universe-displaced incarnation of Typeface appears in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , voiced by an uncredited actor. [12]

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  1. 1 2 3 Paul Jenkins  ( w ), Mark Buckingham  ( p ),Tom Palmer,Rodney Ramos ( i ),Joe Rosas ( col ), Richard Starkings , Troy Peteri ( let )."Warning Signs" Peter Parker: Spider-Man ,vol. 2,no. 24(December 2000). Marvel Comics .
  2. ↑ Paul Jenkins ( w ),Mark Buckingham ( p ),Dan Green,Rodney Ramos ( i ),Joe Rosas ( col ),Richard Starkings, Troy Peteri ( let )."Read 'Em and Weep"Peter Parker: Spider-Man,vol. 2,no. 23(November 2000).Marvel Comics.
  3. ↑ Ted McKeever  ( w ),Ted McKeever ( a ), Steve Buccellato  ( col ),Paul Tutrone ( let )."Alphabet City" Spider-Man's Tangled Web ,vol. 1,no. 18(November 2002). Marvel Comics .
  4. ↑ Paul Jenkins  ( w ),Ramon Bachs ( p ), John Lucas  ( i ), Laura Martin  ( col ),Randy Gentile ( let )."Embedded: Part Three"Civil War: Front Line,vol. 1,no. 3(July 12, 2006). Marvel Comics .
  5. ↑ Paul Jenkins ( w ),Ramon Bachs ( p ),John Lucas ( i ),Laura Martin ( col ),Randy Gentile ( let )."Embedded: Part Four"Civil War: Front Line,vol. 1,no. 4(July 26, 2006).Marvel Comics.
  6. ↑ Paul Jenkins ( w ), Steve Lieber  ( a ),June Chung ( col ),Randy Gentile ( let )."The Accused: Part Five"Civil War: Front Line,vol. 1,no. 5(September 8, 2006).Marvel Comics.
  7. ↑ Newsarama story on Civil War
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