A lesser-known Spider-Man villain is quietly connecting Marvel’s movies and shows

Versions of Tombstone are appearing in three different adaptations Spider-Man has a deep rogue’s gallery, but one supervillain in particular is getting a lot of screentime at the moment. Tombstone made his big screen debut as muscle for Kingpin in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and since then he’s popped up in three more adaptations. Tombstone, aka Lonnie Lincoln, was a major character in the 2025 Disney Plus animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and will reportedly appear in the upcoming MCU film Spider-Man: Brand New Day. He’s also going to be causing trouble on Prime Video’s Spider-Noir, which premieres on May 27. Given there are so many versions of the character, here’s a guide to his origins and recent appearances. Tombstone was introduced in Gerry Conway's the 1987 comic Web of Spider-Man #36. He is typically portrayed as a ruthless New York gangster who got into criminal activity in high school, extorting other students for protection money. He has also repeatedly persuaded the journalist Joseph Robertson to kill stories that would have exposed his crimes. The first version of the character was tall and strong, but didn’t have any superhuman abilit