Cutthroat (Daniel "Danny" Leighton) is a comic book character, a supervillain in Marvel Comics' main shared universe. The character first appeared in Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #89. He is the brother of Diamondback.
Danny Leighton was born in Austin, Texas. He was a member of the Savage Crims, a New York street gang, as a young man. He later became an assassin. He was hired by Amos Jardine to kill Spider-Man, in place of the mad killer Arcade. H...
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Cutthroat (Daniel "Danny" Leighton) is a comic book character, a supervillain in Marvel Comics' main shared universe. The character first appeared in Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #89. He is the brother of Diamondback.
Danny Leighton was born in Austin, Texas. He was a member of the Savage Crims, a New York street gang, as a young man. He later became an assassin. He was hired by Amos Jardine to kill Spider-Man, in place of the mad killer Arcade. He battled Nightcrawler, who had gotten wind of the plan, and Spider-Man, and they defeated him with some secret assistance from Arcade himself.
Many years later, he defeated Mangler and Deathstrike in a fight to the death to become the Red Skull's new chief operative, replacing Crossbones. He underwent training by the Taskmaster. He tried to persuade Blackwing and Jack O'Lantern to help him free Mother Night from the police. He initiated a brief affair with Mother Night. With the Skeleton Crew, he battled Crossbones and Diamondback. He...
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