Origin

The Wild Pack was founded by Ernst Sablinova with the aid of the Symkarian government originally to hunt Nazi war criminals. After the death of her mother and about a decade of training, Silver Sable joined her father on her first mission. They were to take out the National Front, a KKK offshoot in Spain. They were smuggling Nazi war criminals into the United States. For their efforts, they were given a castle to make their headquarters, and Silver quickly became his second in command. When they get a lead on Ivan Trefkov, the Nazi who killed Silver’s mother, her father leads a small task force to Toyko to apprehend him. Unfortunately, Ernst has lost a step, surviving two heart attacks, and allowed himself to get emotional over his wife’s death. He got sloppy and was stabbed and dragged off by Treykov. Silver never found either man and considered her father dead.

Under his daughter’s leadership, she transformed them into international bounty hunters.

Creation

The Wild Pack debuts in The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #265 by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz

Historically, there have been two groups known as The Wild Pack. The second was assembled by Cable. The latter eventually changed their name to the Six Pack due to Silver Sable already having the name.

Major Story Arcs

First Run In With Spider-Man

A major insurance company offered Silver Sable and her team $200,000 for the apprehension of the Black Fox, with an expense budget of $10k per day and $50k budget for property damage. Working out of the Symkarian Embassy, their efforts were complicated by Spider-Man. Spidey was moved by Black Fox’s sad backstory and decided to give him a second chance. First, Spidey lifted the jewels he had stolen so he could make a deal with Sable: take the jewels for the reward in lieu of not apprehending Fox. Sable was intrigued.

Sinister Syndicate

Sable and her Wild Pack were hired by a South African government who believed Jack O’Lantern was training rebels within their borders. They tracked him to New York where he had been publicly mixing it up with Spider-Man. Sable needed the lead on Jack so she placed an ad in the Daily Bugle offering him a job.

Spider-Man initially turned down her offer, but he needed the money. Flash Thompson had been accused of being the Hobgoblin, and he needed money to mount his legal defense. Thus, Spider-Man was hired as a member of the Wild Pack. With Sable, they head for Coney Island after being invited there by Jack. They expected a trap, but they were still ill prepared for the Sinister Syndicate, sent in Jack’s place.

The group was able to overwhelm them, injuring Sable’s ankle. The duo got the unlikely help of Sandman, who just happened to be passing by and noticed the commotion as he was considering the straight and narrow. Their combined might scared the Syndicate off, angering Sable, who doesn’t get paid when that happens. She bailed on Spidey, who didn’t get his cut, but she offered a job to Sandman.

The Sable Gauntlet

The Wild Pack, without Silver Sable, was hired to test the security measures of The Pruett Building, purported to be the safest commercial space in New York City. Ultimately, they failed, proving the building’s level of security, however, Frank Cruz, head of security, wasn’t happy until Silver did it herself. Unfortunately, Frank Cruz was actually Franz Kraus, the son of a Nazi war criminal, who The Wild Pack put in prison years ago.

Kraus wanted to lure Silver into a trap. Spider-Man, who was checking in on why Silver was in the city, got a low level buzz on his spider-sense and looked into him. After he found out the truth, he broke into the Pruett Building to help Silver through the security measures that Kraus adjusted to be lethal. Mr. Pruett, the owner of the building, then hired The Wild Pack to find him.

Kraus’ organization was more dangerous than they expected, forcing Silver to hire special operatives: Spider-Man and her recent recruit, Sandman. They tracked him to the west side stocks where they had been stockpiling weapons while planning to eventually form their own country. Sandman and Spidey kept the guards occupied while Silver looked for Kraus, who she easily apprehended.

The Assassination Plot

Intelligence operatives at Silver Sable International uncovered a conspiracy targeting Symkaria related to a foreign operative named Chakane. Silver hired Paladin to do recon in New York City, which was interrupted by Spider-Man. Once Spidey knew what was happening, he volunteered to join the Wild Pack yet again. They finally track down Chakane, who reveals he was scouting locations to hide an assassin. The said assassin was to kill King Stefan of Symkaria during the King’s Royal Jubilee and then flee to New York, thus framing the United States for the murder.

Spider-Man accompanies Silver to Symkaria and joins the Wild Pack on a number of raids, looking for the assassin. They came up short and ran out of time. With the assassin on the loose, the Wild Pack needed to increase security at the jubilee. Unfortunately, Ultimatum posed as an aerial stunt team and parachuted into the festivities, opening fire before they even hit the ground. Even though they managed to kill the queen, they proved to be a distraction when the prime minister was killed with evidence linking the CIA, leading Silver to believe he was the real target all along.

With the help of Captain America and Solo, they were able to track a contingent of Ultimatum to the Symkarian-Latverian border. There, they found intel on the assassin: Sabretooth. Spidey and Solo were sent back to New York to search for the Ultimatum leader, Toler Wiel, while Sable and Cap head for Mexico to find Sabretooth. Either of their testimonies would clear America’s name. Unfortunately, Sabretooth was buried under a collapsing building, and Weil was withstanding interrogation techniques. Spider-Man, who was muscled out of Silver’s ranks, was forced to work on his own. He broke Weil out, following him back to his employer, The Red Skull. Spider-Man confronted the Skull and recorded him monologuing his grand plan. He then turned that audio over to the Department of Defense ending war with Symkaria before it started.

The New Task Force

After bringing her nation’s prime minister’s assassin to justice, Silver re-modeled the Wild Pack. Before, it was a large roster of soldiers with occasional mercenaries and vigilantes enlisted. Now, it includes an alpha team of specialists, including Texas bodyguard, Doug Powell, and former Daredevil villain, The Crippler. She also outfitted them with new uniforms that are kevlar-lined, flame retardant, and without garish colors (per Silver’s specific orders).

Their first mission was in America where a televangelist was being targeted by an assassin after revealing that he was pro-choice. They took over security at Madison Square Garden during his stadium tour, while Sandman used a lifelike mask to pose as the preacher. While the Wild Pack was busy dealing with the Watchdogs, Sandman was gunned down by the real assassin, Gattling. His sand composition allowed him to absorb and contain the bullets without injury. Silver and the Wild Pack chased him to the roof, but he escaped.

While the Watchdogs were attacking over the preacher’s pro-choice opinion, Gattling targeted him because the preacher was a drug dealer and a rival dealer (who also posed as a televangelist) wanted his territory. While the Wild Pack (now joined by Battlestar, who had experience with Watchdogs) takes on the Watchdogs, Silver’s ex-lover, the Foreigner, kills Gattling’s employer. Gattling blames Silver for losing his job so he targets her. Temp member Battlestar takes him out, earning him a permanent spot on the team.

Cyberwar

After Michael Collins, the current Deathlok, filled in for Wild Pack member Quentino, Silver Sable owed him a favor. He called in that favor when he learned that Cybertek’s Deathlok program data was being used for a new brand of soldiers-for-hire: The Cyberwarriors. These Cyberwarriors used cadavers that had no human brain activity to argue with the computer brain like most Deathloks. Cybertek’s parent company, Roxxon, hired Deathlok to recover this technology, but he needed the Wild Pack’s help.

They tracked a Cyberwarriors lab to the Paris Underground, where their raid led to a confrontation with Cyberwarriors. With the mindless Deathloks pushed back, the Cybertek members made their getaway by blasting through a wall into the River Seine, thus filling the lab with water. Deathlok and his new ally, Siege, gave chase, while Silver and the Wild Pack followed up on a shipment of Cyberwarriors delivered to the Genesis Coalition, a Hydra splinter group that Silver has been keeping her eye on.

Silver and the Wild Pack plan an amphibious raid with the help of Stingray. They are also reunited with Siege, who heard Stingray’s Avengers distress call, and Sandman, who left the group to join Next Wave. Hydra hired Next Wave to retrieve the mobile base the Genesis Coalition stole. Genesis was planning on using the Cyberwarriors to start a war with Transia and make Wundagore Mountain their new headquarters. Luckily, the mountain is still defended by the Knights of Wundagore. With three teams fighting off the Cyberwarriors, they didn’t stand a chance.

As the dust settled, Sandman transferred back to the Wild Pack, and Siege promised his help if they ever needed it.

The Genesis Coalition

Dmitri Petrovitch of the Genesis Coalition would attempt to lure the Wild Pack into a trap. He pretended to defect from the Genesis Coalition to lead the Wild Pack back to the group’s base so that they would take out his leader, Trefkov, the murderer of Ernst Sablinova. Then, Dmitri’s loyalists within the coalition would execute the Wild Pack, ending their long standing feud and positioning Dmitri as the lone leader. The Wild Pack’s assault was interrupted early on by Fritz Sablinova, brother of Ernst and uncle of Silver. He admitted to starting the Genesis Coalition in an attempt to take down both organizations.

Fritz requests that the Wild Pack allow them to be captured so that Fritz can keep his cover. They agree, but not before Silver sends a coded message to her new task force, The Intruders. She ordered them to head to Bosnia where the Genesis Coalition is faking attacks to force the hands of the US government and SHIELD, hoping to start full scale war. Thankfully, Foreigner has infiltrated the ranks of the coalition in disguise. He releases the Wild Pack and brings them to Silver’s long thought dead father, Ernst.

Angry, Silver and the Wild Pack infiltrate Trefkov’s battlecruiser and kill him. Fritz believes his plans are ruined and takes aim at Silver, only to be killed by Foreigner. With the Genesis Coalition without leadership, the Wild Pack return to headquarters with Ernst, alive and well.

The Osborn Identity

Since Silver’s apparent demise during “Ends of the Earth.” Symkaria has hit difficult times. Norman Osborn has been working with Symkarian Countess Karkov to manufacture black market weapons, enslaving the people of Symkaria. Without the funds and other resources she used to have, Silver has been struggling to stalk Osborn across the world until Spider-Man offered the resources from Parker Industries. For privately entering the country, Parker Industries was dropped as a SHIELD contractor and branded foreign invaders. His SHIELD contact, Mockingbird, also quit to join The Wild Pack.

This new Wild Pack were generals, with call signs from the NATO alphabet, leading their own battalions of freedom fighters. Their battalions were made up of soldiers from various war-torn nations, mostly targeted by Osborn’s black market arms. They have been rounded up by Mockingbird so they could unite with Spidey and Silver for an assault on Osborn’s headquarters. They were each given a spider-themed vehicle to take on the Goblin Army.

Osborn moved up the time table on his master plan. He shot a missile full of the latest version of his goblin serum at the capital city. He would then traffic the people of Symakria as goblin soldiers to the war-torn countries. Silver assigned Foxtrot and Tango to cover Mockingbird as she flew to the missile to disarm it and assigned X-Ray, Romeo, and Juliet to evacuate the city. Silver would accompany Spider-Man into Osborn’s castle looking for an abort button.

Mockingbird managed to disarm the explosive device but believed the gas globes inside could still shatter and cover most of the city. Foxtrot and Tango in their spider planes then used a web-shooter function to create a net that stopped the missile from smashing into the city. Unfortunately, Osborn escaped, but The Countess was apprehended.

Sinister War

After a hot streak, Chance invested his new riches in The Palace, a flying casino above Manhattan. After cheating The Foreigner on a bet, Foreigner got him back by pressuring him into a new bet in front of everyone so he couldn’t say no. He offered to cover all the bets that night if he could steal Spider-Man’s web-shooters. He used this opportunity to get his Jack O’Lanterns to help him out and move in as his partner in the casino.

Unfortunately, all but one of the Jack O’Lanterns were Chameleon doubles on The Finisher's payroll and betrayed Chance and Foreigner. While they tried to make off with the prediction machine, the doubles sabotaged the engine and The Palace started plummeting to Manhattan. Spider-Man managed to save it from crashing, but the operation was ended. Chance got himself, Foreigner, and some of their hired help (Slyde and the real Jack O'Lantern) to safety using the casino's cloaking tech. The Foreigner blamed Spider-Man for this fiasco. He hired Taskmaster and Black Ant to join his new Wild Pack. The team was lured to a graveyard where Spider-Man was, as were a few other supervillain teams.

Once assembled, the demon, Kindred announces they were all hellbound villains who could earn a spot as Kindred's assistant, avoiding torture in the afterlife, if they killed Spider-Man. Spider-Man tries to get away while they all fight each other for the chance, but he fails. Eventually, Doc Ock uses a piece of Black Ant's helmet to knock everyone out through the ear centipedes Kindred was using to control them all.

Fall of X

The Wild Pack was hired by Orchis, an anti-mutant paramilitary organization, as part of their worldwide propaganda and assault campaign on mutantkind. Silver disapproved of Orchis’ xenophobia but also disapproved of Krakoa’s tainted pharmaceuticals (which were actually tainted by Orchis). They were specifically hired to search for Nightcrawler, who Orchis previously had mesmerized into an assassin. He was currently disguising himself as Spider-Man and was patrolling Central Park.

She was answering to Vulture, who was put in charge of Orchis’ mutant experimentations. He was experimenting with the technarchy genetics to create a new version of the Hounds. Silver disapproved yet again of Orchis’ actions considering mind control technology was illegal. This causes her second in command, Kremer, to start questioning her decision making ability, especially after she gets too close to the target and starts an affair with the mutant.

Kremer records her intimate moments with the target and uses them to blackmail Silver into staying on mission, a mission she was ready to cancel and return the money. Silver is not easily blackmailed. She plans with Nightcrawler and his mother, Mystique, to replace members of the team. In disguise, they assault Vulture’s lab, freeing the mutants from their hound programming

Venom War

The Wild Pack are hired by Alchemax CEO, Liz Allan, to retrieve a special package from the The Life Foundation during an outbreak of zombiotes, mindless symbiotes that multiply and spread like an infection. This was seen as the perfect time to test the new Lethal Protectors Initiative upgrades, provided by Alchemax. Each of the Wild Pack members would be bonded to a symbiote and outfitted with a sonic emitter to keep it in check:

• Riot was bonded to Puma
• Scream was bonded to Lightbright
• Phage was bonded to Strickland
• Lasher was bonded to Tarantula
• New symbiote, Flicker, was bonded to Lin Abbas
• Agony was bonded to pilot, Navvab Taojvar

Unfortunately, Navvab was infected before they could activate the upgrades. Agony rejected him as a host, and the sonic emitter killed him. Agony then forced Silver Sable to become her host.

While they were attacked by zombiotes, the large container they were moving broke open. Inside, was a clone of Shriek, whose sonic scream was considered useful enough to clone. With their new ace in the hole, the team commandeered Dominic Fortune's steamboat ferry so that they could rig Shriek to an Alchemax sonic emitter out on the water, containing the zombiote horde to Manhattan island. Despite a betrayal from Strickland, which cost him his life, the Wild Pack were successful and made their exit.

Variants

Ultimate Universe

Silver Sable and the Wild Pack are hired to hunt Spider-Man and Venom

Other Media

Television

• Silver Sable and the Wild Pack appear in the five-part story arc “Six Forgotten Warriors” in the Spider-Man: The Animated Series
• Silver Sable and the Wild Pack appear in Spider-Man (2017). Members include Paladin, Battelstar, and Puma.

Video Games

• Silver Sable and the Wild Pack appear in the 2005 video game, Ultimate Spider-Man.
• Silver Sable and the Wild Pack appear in the 2010 video game, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. They competed with the prime Spider-Man to capture The Juggernaut.
• Silver Sable and the Wild Pack are hired by the Sinister Six to fight Spider-Man in the phone app game, Spider-Man: Unlimited
• Silver Sable and her expansive Wild Pack appear in the Insomniac Spider-Man games Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. They run a police state during and after Doctor Octopus’ attempt to use a biological weapon on the city.