Welcome to another edition of Obscure Comics Characters, where we take a look at some of the comics industries most obscure characters.

Today, we bring you Slyde, The Teflon Coated Man, right from the pages of Amazing Spider-Man.  Created by Tom DeFalco and Sal Buscema in 1986 (ASM #272), Slyde is a skilled chemist who created a a surface perfect for non-stick frying pans.  Unfortunately, his employers didn’t see the genius of this skilled chemist and fired him.  Naturally, he took his non-stick technology and made a suit out of it to rob banks.

His suit is so stick free that you can’t lay a hand on him and he glides about on the ground at 30 miles an hour!

He’s made appearances more recently in Civil War and the Initiative, but I’m sure he still lives on in relative obscurity.  I really don’t see how coating yourself in a non-stick frying pan shaped like a suit qualifies someone as a cool super-villain.  And the name Slyde with a “Y”?  Jeez.

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