Bullseye Fact — October 22, 2026

Today's Fact

Verified against 2 independent sources. Issue numbers cited below.

BORED IN THE NINTH, HE THREW AT THE BATTER'S HEAD!

The Featured Fact

Before he was an assassin, Bullseye was a pitcher — and a phenomenal one. As told in Bullseye: Greatest Hits #2 (2004) by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon, the boy who would become Bullseye skipped a college scholarship for minor-league baseball, and after just three games was called up to start a sold-out major-league game.

He was pitching a no-hitter. Bottom of the ninth, two outs — and he was bored. He asked his coach to pull him from the game. The coach refused. The batter mocked him as a coward. So Bullseye did the thing his whole life would be built on: he threw the ball directly at the batter's head, killing him, and — in the retelling — said one word: “Bullseye.”

He was barred from professional baseball and convicted of manslaughter. The NSA recruited the disgraced pitcher as an assassin, and the rest is Hell's Kitchen history. One honest warning, though: this origin comes from Bullseye's own interrogation — and he later boasted that some or all of his life story was made up to amuse himself. Even his origin may be a thrown story.

Why It's Obscure

Everybody knows Bullseye the assassin. Almost nobody knows Bullseye the major-league pitcher — or that his baseball career ended with a corpse at home plate.

The Bronx

An abusive father, a brother, air rifles — and a kid so accurate he killed a pigeon with a thrown yo-yo. The aim came first; baseball just gave it a uniform.

3 games

Three minor-league games was all it took. Called up to a sold-out major-league start, no hits surrendered — a star being born in real time.

The ninth

Bottom of the ninth, two outs, a no-hitter on the line — and he asked out because he was bored. The mockery that followed cost the batter his life.

2004

Bullseye: Greatest Hits #2 (Way & Dillon) tells the baseball story — as Bullseye's own confession, which he later claimed he may have invented. Trust the aim, doubt the narrator.

Gallery

Real depictions tied to this fact — no AI imagery, nothing mislabeled.

Bullseye: Perfect Game comic cover art — **Perfect Game**Bullseye in the assassin years the baseball career collapsed into — the aim never left, only the target changed.

Bullseye: Greatest Hits comic art — **Greatest Hits**Art from the 2004 miniseries that finally told the pitcher story: the Bronx, the mound, and the ninth inning.

Bullseye comic panel art — **The man who never misses**The finished product of that fatal pitch: a hitman who can turn anything he can throw into a killing weapon.

Sources

Every claim above is verified against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Why Bullseye is the Most Dangerous Man in the Marvel Universe — Marvel.comOfficial Marvel account: as detailed in Bullseye: Greatest Hits (2004) #2, Lester pitched a no-hitter, grew bored, and killed the mocking batter with a throw to the head.
Bullseye (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseAfter only three games he became bored while pitching a no-hitter and hurled the ball at the batter, killing him; he was later recruited by the NSA — and his interrogation stories may partly be lies.