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Willie Lumpkin
Willie Lumpkin as depicted in his debut appearance in Fantastic Four #11 (February 1963). Art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceFantastic Four #11 (February 1963)
Created byStan Lee (writer)
Dan DeCarlo (artist)
In-story information
Full nameWilliam Lemuel Lumpkin
Supporting character ofFantastic Four, Spider-Man
AbilitiesAbility to wiggle ears and nose

William Lemuel "Willie" Lumpkin is a fictional supporting character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is best known as the mailman of the Fantastic Four in their self-titled comic book.[1]

Willie Lumpkin was portrayed by Stan Lee in the 2005 film Fantastic Four.

Publication history

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Newspaper comic strip

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Willie Lumpkin in the 1959-61 comic strip. Art by Dan DeCarlo.

The character was originally created for a syndicated daily comic strip by writer Stan Lee and artist Dan DeCarlo.[2] Lee recalled in a 1998 interview that,

Mel Lazarus had done a strip called Miss Peach, which used not panels but one long panel instead. I liked that idea very much, so when Harold Anderson, the head of Publishers Syndicate, asked me to do a strip, I came up with Barney's Beat, which was about a New York City cop and all the characters on his patrol who he'd meet every day and there would be a gag. I did some samples with Dan DeCarlo, and I thought it was wonderful. Harold said it was too "big city-ish" and they're not going to care for it in the small towns because they don't have cops on a beat out there. He wanted something that would appeal to the hinterland, something bucolic. He said, "You know what I want, Stan? I want a mailman! A friendly little mailman in a small town." I don't remember if I came up with the name Lumpkin or he did, but I hated it. I think I came up with the name as a joke and he said, "Yeah, that's it! Good idea!"[3]

Willie Lumpkin drew humor from the people and situations Willie would encounter along his mail delivery route in the small town of Glenville. The daily strip ran from December 1959 to May 6, 1961. A Sunday strip ran through May 28.[4]

Marvel Comics

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Lee then introduced the comic book version of Willie Lumpkin in Fantastic Four #11 (Feb. 1963), featuring art by Jack Kirby.[5] The comic book Lumpkin is depicted as significantly older than in the comic strip, though the character's good nature was retained, as were references to his past as a mail carrier in Glenville, which the comic book placed in Nebraska.[citation needed]

In his first comic book appearance, Lumpkin is represented as having befriended the Fantastic Four, to whom he makes regular fan mail deliveries at their Baxter Building headquarters in New York City. He half-jokingly requests to join the team on the grounds that he has the "power" to wiggle his ears.

Lumpkin appeared in his own solo feature in Marvel Comics Presents #18 (May 1989). In this parody of A Christmas Carol, he is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past who had intended to haunt cantankerous Spider-Man nemesis J. Jonah Jameson, but could not find his address. The story concludes with the normally amiable postman deciding he hates Christmas.

Fictional character biography

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Willie Lumpkin is a mail carrier whose Manhattan route includes the joint home and office of the Fantastic Four. On occasion he falls into the danger that typically surrounds the adventuring heroes. Examples include a story in which he is forced to spend Christmas Eve locked in a closet while the Fantastic Four fight the Super-Skrull,[6] or when he helped to save the team from the Mad Thinker. This incident involved Reed's trust in Lumpkin; he had hired the mailman to manipulate the machinery as part of a safety routine.[7]

Lumpkin briefly dates Peter Parker's Aunt May.[8] When May briefly appears to have died, Lumpkin grieves and is seen to befriend a new companion named Doreen Greenwald.[9]

Lumpkin has since retired, and his niece Wilhemina "Billie" Lumpkin has taken his position as the Fantastic Four's mail carrier.[10]

He was interviewed about the Fantastic Four on the news show Lateline,[11] saying how though the group took on cosmic menaces, they always found time to greet him. Sometime later, the Fantastic Four enter Lumpkin's body in miniature form to remove an otherwise inoperable brain tumor.[12]

Lumpkin was later hired as a biology teacher for the Future Foundation, a school founded by the Fantastic Four.[13]

Other versions

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An alternate universe version of William Lumpkin appears in Ultimate Fantastic Four. This version is a government agent for the Baxter Foundation.[14]

In other media

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References

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  1. ^ Sanderson, Peter (2007). The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City. New York City: Pocket Books. pp. 42–48. ISBN 978-1-4165-3141-8.
  2. ^ Markstein, Don. "Willie Lumpkin". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Stan the Man & Roy the Boy: A Conversation Between Stan Lee and Roy Thomas". Comic Book Artist. No. #2. Summer 1998. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
  4. ^ Apeldoorn, Ger (November 11, 2013). "Late Mail". The Fabuleous Fifties.
  5. ^ DeFalco, Tom; Sanderson, Peter; Brevoort, Tom; Teitelbaum, Michael; Wallace, Daniel; Darling, Andrew; Forbeck, Matt; Cowsill, Alan; Bray, Adam (2019). The Marvel Encyclopedia. DK Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0.
  6. ^ Marvel Comics Presents #18 (May 1989)
  7. ^ Fantastic Four #15 (June 1963)
  8. ^ The Amazing Spider-Man #343 (January 1991)
  9. ^ Spider-Man Holiday Special (December 1995)
  10. ^ Fantastic Four (vol. 3) #2 (February 1998)
  11. ^ Fantastic Four #543 (April 2007)
  12. ^ Fantastic Four #606 (July 2012)
  13. ^ FF (vol. 2) #5 (May 2013)
  14. ^ Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 (February 2004)
  15. ^ Coggan, Devan (September 2, 2015). "Stan Lee says Fantastic Four flopped because he didn't have a cameo". Entertainment Weekly.
  16. ^ Berggren, Victoria (July 19, 2017). "From 'X-Men' to 'Spider-Man': 35 of Stan Lee's Most Memorable Cameos". The Hollywood Reporter.
  17. ^ "Willie Lumpkin Voice - Iron Man VR (Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 21, 2026. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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