Snake Marston (comics)

Snake Marston
Snake Marston
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Machine Man #16 (August, 1980)
Created by	Tom DeFalco and Steve Ditko
In-story information
Alter ego	Sylvester Marston
Team affiliations	Thunderbolts; Satan Squad; Enforcers
Abilities	human contortionist

Sylvester "Snake" Marston is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe.

Publication history

Snake Marston first appeared in Machine Man #16 (August 1980), and was created by Tom DeFalco and Steve Ditko.

The character subsequently appeared in Marvel Team-Up #138 (February 1984), Thunderbolts #104 (September 2006), and #107 (December 2006).

Snake Marston appeared as part of the "Enforcers" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #4.

Sylvester Marston was born in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of Baron Brimstone's Satan Squad when they fought Machine Man.^{[volume & issue needed]} He later joined the Enforcers and fought Spider-Man.^{[volume & issue needed]} He was impersonated by the Eel as part of a plot involving Daredevil, Mister Hyde, and the Enforcers.^[1]

Much later, he was seen imprisoned in Seagate Prison's supervillain cell block.^{[volume & issue needed]}

During the Civil War event, he was captured by Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts and forced to join them or face jail time.^{[volume & issue needed]} With the Thunderbolts army, he went on a mission to Sydney, Australia.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Snake Marston has no super human powers; he is however a master contortionist who can hold an opponent helpless by winding himself around them.

Snake Marston is mentioned in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Hammerhead's henchmen mentioned how Marston uses his contortionist abilities to attempt to seduce Janice Foswell, something her boyfriend Hammerhead is unhappy about.

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