Brothers Grimm (comics)
The Brothers Grimm are two sets of twin supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
The first appearance of the first Brothers Grimm came in Spider-Woman #3. These were a pair of identical, magically animated mannequins created by doll collector Nathan Dolly and his wife Priscilla. During their initial appearances only one was ever seen at a time and the singular identity, Brother Grimm was used instead of their true plural name. After three return appearances in Spider-Woman, they perished in issue #12.Although the characters were introduced while Marv Wolfman was writing Spider-Woman, their origin and identities were not revealed until Mark Gruenwald's run on the series. Questioned as to whether he had told Gruenwald the characters' origin or Gruenwald had come up with it himself, Wolfman admitted that he could not even remember if the origin he had envisioned for the characters was the same as the one ultimately used by Gruenwald, except that "Brother Grimm" actually being two people was his intention from the beginning. Though Wolfman could not remember how the Brothers Grimm were created, he has said he is confident that they were designed by penciler Carmine Infantino: "I usually gave the artist a concept of what I wanted and then let them have a field day with it. Carmine created brilliant designs in The Flash, so I would certainly have bowed to his expertise."
The second Brothers Grimm appeared in Iron Man #188. They later join the group Night Shift alongside other lesser-known villains.
Fictional character biography
First Pair
Mister Doll, real name Nathan Dolly, is a criminal who can mystically harm a person by harming a doll whose features he can reshape to resemble the victim's. While creating the Brothers Grimm dolls, Nathan's consciousness is trapped simultaneously inside both doll mannequins. These mannequins mail themselves to Nathan's wife Priscilla and transfer their life forces into two human-sized versions.Priscilla names the two Jake and William after the historical Brothers Grimm and believes them to be her sons, a delusion which they play along with. The "brothers" have sharply opposed personalities, rarely could come to agreement, and as such pursued separate criminal careers.
Priscilla plans to use her occult knowledge to transfer Nathan's mind from the mannequins to a living human body. To this end, Jake abducts Jerry Hunt to use for the body, and William captures Spider-Woman to coerce Magnus the Sorcerer to perform the transfer. Spider-Woman pulls Hunt out of the spell at the last moment, and Nathan's consciousness disperses.