Swarm (Fritz von Meyer) is a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, an enemy of Spider-Man. Created by Bill Mantlo and John Byrne, the character first appeared in Champions #14 (July 1977). A former Nazi sympathizer, the character is devoured by a colony of mutated bees who absorb his consciousness. He surrounds his skeletal remains with the bees, and can manipulate them at will.
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Famous quotes containing the word swarm:
“As night returns bringing doubts
That swarm around the sleeper’s head
But are fended off with clubs and knives ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“A swarm of bees in May
Is worth a load of hay;
A swarm of bees in June
Is worth a silver spoon;
A swarm of bees in July
Is not worth a fly.”
—Unknown. A Swarm of bees in May (l. 1–6)
“‘Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes,—thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)