8 Best Comic Storylines Featuring Spider-Man: Far From Home Villains
5. Supernatural Thrillers #8
Marvel Comics
In the comics, Mysterio started out his adult career as a special effects artist. He lived and breathed cinema, and his ability to make compelling illusions on the big screen eventually served him well in his career as a criminal, with Beck utilising movie magic - and characters - to trick Spidey during his many, many capers.
What does this have to do with the original Elementals? Well, in their first appearance from 1974's Supernatural Thrillers #8, the group transported a very Boris Karloff-looking Mummy to the modern day. It's the kind of illusion the original Mysterio would've employed, except in this story, it was the real deal.
We already know that the Elementals of Spider-Man: Far From Home will draw most of their inspiration from the aforementioned Elements of Doom, but their namesake still stems from the universe-hopping group originally spotlighted in Marvel's supernatural series.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
