He is a man of many faces. Literally. Introduced in Amazing Spider-man #1 (1962) by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Dmitri is the son of a Russian (or Soviet at the time) aristocrat and a servant. He would be made to hate himself with His father hated the sight of his face and his mother considered him a humiliation. The only person who tolerated him (though still abused him) was Sergei Kravenoff. To impress him, Dmitri would give impressions of their neighbors and family. He was later taken in and trained by the Finisher and would earn his name as the Chameleon.

Years later, he would steal missile defense designs and tried to frame Spider-man as the culprit. Spider-man exposed the truth. He was deported but soon returned to get revenge against the Wedhead but sending his half-brother, Sergei now Kraven the Hunter after him. Trying to gain the respect of Kraven, he would try and defeat Iron Man by disguising himself as Cap and having the two believe they attacked each other. He was exposed and fled. He would begin selling his services to others, including Hydra, The Leader, and the Lobo Brothers. He later kidnapped and impersonated J. Jonah Jameson for a while until Spider-man exposed him. He would later gain the ability to change the shape of his body.

Trying to learn of Spider-man’s identity and with the urging of Green Goblin, Chameleon created two robots of Richard and Mary Parker and sent them to pretend they were really Peter Parker’s parents. When Peter found out the truth, he beat Chameleon into a coma. He would be sent to Ravencroft Institute but would escape by taking on the form of Ashley Kafka. He would kidnap and unmasked Spider-man, learning the truth of his identity. He brainwashed Peter and then took on his identity but was exposed and beaten with a baseball bat by MJ, who recognized that he wasn’t really her husband. While fleeing, he was shot by his nephew Alyosha Kravenoff. During Civil War after Peter exposed his identity to the World, he would try and kidnapped Aunt May by pretending to be Peter, only for her to drug him with oatmeal and sleeping drugs.

After briefly joining the MODOK 11, he tried to plant a bomb in New York. Kraven’s widow later recruited him to help her resurrect her husband. He would later join with Doc Ock’s revenge plan before he died as a member of the Sinister Six. The Avengers and Spider-man defeated them. He would later try to find a dose of the Infinity Formula (the formula that allowed Nick Fury to remain young) and would come into conflict with Spider-man and his sister, Theresa Parker.

Despite being Spider-man’s first villain and one of his most regulars, it would take years before he got a figure in ML. He would get this figure as part of the Spider-man Rhino wave.