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art by Ramon Bachs |comic_color=background:#ff8080 |character_name=Typeface |real_name= Gordon Thomas |publisher=Marvel_Comics |debut=''Peter_Parker:_Spider-Man'' (2nd series) #23, (November 2000) |creators=Paul_Jenkins (writer)
Mark_Buckingham (artist) |alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0 |alliance=None |status=Active |alliances= |previous_alliances=United States Army, Ace Signs, ally to Spider-Man |aliases=Geordie, Captain A-Face, Sesame Street Pete, Shakespeare |relatives=unnamed ex-wife and son |powers=highly-trained melee combatant, weapons master, very intelligent |}} '''Typeface (Gordon Thomas)''' is a is fictional Marvel_Comics Antihero. He first appeared in ''Peter_Parker:_Spider-Man'' (2nd series) #23, (November 2000), and was created by Paul_Jenkins and Mark_Buckingham. ==History== What little is known about Typeface's past is seen in 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.{{Comic book reference | Writer = Paul_Jenkins | Penciller = Mark_Buckingham | Inker = Tom Palmer, Rodney Ramos | Story = Maximum Security: Warning Signs | Title = Peter Parker: Spider-Man 2 | Issue = 24 | Date = December 2000 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} 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. After successfully escaping and returning to his apartment, he replaces the "R" letter on his head with an "A" for "Annihilation".{{Comic book reference | Writer = Paul_Jenkins | Penciller = Mark_Buckingham | Inker = Tom Palmer, Rodney Ramos | Story = Read 'Em and Weep | Title = Peter Parker: Spider-Man 2 | Issue = 23 | Date = November 2000 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} 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 bombs Gordon would have used to kill Finch. Finch sets them off and demolishes an entire building, killing himself, and for a time it was believed that Typeface died in the explosion. When the police arrive, they declare Typeface responsible for the explosion.{{Comic book reference | Writer = Paul_Jenkins | Penciller = Mark_Buckingham | Inker = Tom Palmer, Rodney Ramos | Story = Trick of the Light | Title = Peter Parker: Spider-Man 2 | Issue = 25 | Date = January 2001 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} ===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."{{Comic book reference | Writer = Ted_McKeever | Artist = Ted_McKeever | Story = Alphabet City | Title = Spider-Man's Tangled Web | Issue = 18 | Date = November 2002 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} After that, Typeface is not seen for many months. ===Civil War=== {{main|Civil War (comics)}} Returning in Marvel's ''Civil_War:_Front_Line'', Typeface has chosen to side against the super-hero registration act. Upon his arrest, Typeface and other arrested super-heroes are transported to a maximum security prison built in the Negative Zone called "Fantasy Island." According to Paul Jenkins, the writer currently using him, he "may not survive the series,"{{citation needed}} but when he dies his eyes will be covered by "little X's" http://www.newsarama.com/WW_Chicago_06/Marvel/civilwar.html. ==Bibliography== *''Peter Parker: Spider-Man'' #23-24 *''Tangled Web of Spider-Man'' #18 ==External links== *Marvel Universe Appendix: Typeface *Front line *Typeface on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki ==References==
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Category:Spider-Man_villains
art by Ramon Bachs |comic_color=background:#ff8080 |character_name=Typeface |real_name= Gordon Thomas |publisher=Marvel_Comics |debut=''Peter_Parker:_Spider-Man'' (2nd series) #23, (November 2000) |creators=Paul_Jenkins (writer)
Mark_Buckingham (artist) |alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0 |alliance=None |status=Active |alliances= |previous_alliances=United States Army, Ace Signs, ally to Spider-Man |aliases=Geordie, Captain A-Face, Sesame Street Pete, Shakespeare |relatives=unnamed ex-wife and son |powers=highly-trained melee combatant, weapons master, very intelligent |}} '''Typeface (Gordon Thomas)''' is a is fictional Marvel_Comics Antihero. He first appeared in ''Peter_Parker:_Spider-Man'' (2nd series) #23, (November 2000), and was created by Paul_Jenkins and Mark_Buckingham. ==History== What little is known about Typeface's past is seen in 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.{{Comic book reference | Writer = Paul_Jenkins | Penciller = Mark_Buckingham | Inker = Tom Palmer, Rodney Ramos | Story = Maximum Security: Warning Signs | Title = Peter Parker: Spider-Man 2 | Issue = 24 | Date = December 2000 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} 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. After successfully escaping and returning to his apartment, he replaces the "R" letter on his head with an "A" for "Annihilation".{{Comic book reference | Writer = Paul_Jenkins | Penciller = Mark_Buckingham | Inker = Tom Palmer, Rodney Ramos | Story = Read 'Em and Weep | Title = Peter Parker: Spider-Man 2 | Issue = 23 | Date = November 2000 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} 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 bombs Gordon would have used to kill Finch. Finch sets them off and demolishes an entire building, killing himself, and for a time it was believed that Typeface died in the explosion. When the police arrive, they declare Typeface responsible for the explosion.{{Comic book reference | Writer = Paul_Jenkins | Penciller = Mark_Buckingham | Inker = Tom Palmer, Rodney Ramos | Story = Trick of the Light | Title = Peter Parker: Spider-Man 2 | Issue = 25 | Date = January 2001 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} ===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."{{Comic book reference | Writer = Ted_McKeever | Artist = Ted_McKeever | Story = Alphabet City | Title = Spider-Man's Tangled Web | Issue = 18 | Date = November 2002 | Publisher = Marvel_Comics}} After that, Typeface is not seen for many months. ===Civil War=== {{main|Civil War (comics)}} Returning in Marvel's ''Civil_War:_Front_Line'', Typeface has chosen to side against the super-hero registration act. Upon his arrest, Typeface and other arrested super-heroes are transported to a maximum security prison built in the Negative Zone called "Fantasy Island." According to Paul Jenkins, the writer currently using him, he "may not survive the series,"{{citation needed}} but when he dies his eyes will be covered by "little X's" http://www.newsarama.com/WW_Chicago_06/Marvel/civilwar.html. ==Bibliography== *''Peter Parker: Spider-Man'' #23-24 *''Tangled Web of Spider-Man'' #18 ==External links== *Marvel Universe Appendix: Typeface *Front line *Typeface on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki ==References==