Marvel Comics Most Exclusive Bar Is For Villains Only

Marvel Comics’ Most Exclusive Bar Is For Villains Only

Even costumed villains need a place to let loose without worrying about being thrown in jail or vaporized by Doctor Doom – enter the Bar With No Name.

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Marvel Comics Most Exclusive Bar Is For Villains Only

Regardless of what side of the law you’re on, everybody needs a place to blow off some steam among friends. Nowhere is that more true than for Marvel’s supervillain community. World-ending threats like Thanos, Galactus and Kang the Conqueror cast a large shadow over the planet, and equally mighty heroes have risen to dispel the darkness. Imagine the stress of being Stilt-Man, or Big Wheel, or even the Shocker when there’s a Captain Marvel or an Iron Man in every major city.

The only support network villains have to turn to is each other, and that’s where the Bar With No Name comes in. An establishment dedicated to serving Marvel’s costumed villains drinks and a place where – ostensibly – they don’t have to worry about getting their jaws smacked or being vaporized by an Infinity Stone. For obvious reasons, the Bar With No Name doesn’t have a fixed location, but it can typically be found in New York City, and before that there was a location in Medina County, Ohio.

The Bar With No Name has appeared in many Marvel titles such as The Amazing Spider-Man, The Punisher, She-Hulk, and Daredevil (to name a few), but it was first introduced in Captain America #319, created by writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Paul Neary. The story was called “Overkill” and boy did it live up to its name. Captain America finds himself in Cleveland – as he says, “All of America is my stomping ground” – delivering swift justice to Blacklash when he gets wind of a mad killer known as the Scourge who’s killing costumed villains left and right. The villain Firebrand goes to the Bar With No Name to assemble his fellow villains into a united front against this mysterious Scourge who’s decimating the criminal underworld with extreme prejudice. Unfortunately for them, Scourge is disguised as the bartender and guns down everyone in the bar, leaving behind him only wreckage and blood. Not an auspicious first impression for the drinking establishment, but the idea stuck around anyway.

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Another notable entry for the Bar With No Name appears in Punisher War Journal #4, written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Mike Deodato. NYC’s villains have gathered for the funeral of Wilbur Day, otherwise known as Stilt-Man. The mourners are a mixed bag of Sinister Six members and silver-age villains that never quite caught on. Just a bunch of career criminals sharing laughs and reminiscing about the good ol’ days when the stakes weren’t so high. It is a positively delightful scene. Of course, what starts off as a high-spirited wake devolves into a cathartic brawl, and ends with the Punisher disguised as a barman – yes, again – blowing up the place.

Despite these repeated instance of violence, the Bar With No Name is an institution to this day. When Electro finally fell back to Earth after being shot into space by Thor, one of his first ports of call for solace and fellowship was the Bar With No Name in NYC. Unfortunately, what he mostly found there was derision from his foible against the God of Thunder, but that’s another story. The thing about villains – and Marvel villains in particular—is that they usually work best as characters when readers can recognize some humanity in them. The Bar With No Name is one of those reminders that even gimmicky lowlives need a place where everybody knows their name.

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