Flint Marko flees to a nuclear testing site on a beach near Savannah, Georgia where he comes into contact with sand that had been irradiated by an experimental reactor. His body and the radioactive sand bond, changing Marko’s molecular structure into sand. Impressed, he calls himself the Sandman after his new powers. Marko https://www.comicbookaddicts.com/2022/09/the-amazing-spider-man-1963-268/ with Peter Parker/Spider-Man for the first time in Peter’s high school. Spider-Man defeats Marko with a vacuum cleaner and hands it over to the police.
The Sandman first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #4 (June 11, 1963).
