Bullseye Fact — November 5, 2026

Today's Fact

Chained, shackled and beaten in a cell built to give him nothing to throw, Bullseye manufactured his weapon out of his own mouth.

BULLSEYE KILLED A MAN WITH HIS OWN TOOTH — SPAT INTO AN AGENT'S SKULL AFTER A BEATING KNOCKED IT LOOSE!

The Featured Fact

Bullseye was being held in a facility designed around a single problem: anything he can hold is a weapon. His hands were locked inside fully enclosed shackles, no loose objects were allowed near him, and federal agents took turns interrogating him about his past — the sessions retold in Bullseye: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 #1–5 (2004–2005) by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon.

Agent Hoskins lost his temper during one session and beat the shackled prisoner, knocking a tooth loose. Bullseye smiled through the blood, worked the tooth free, and spat it into Hoskins' skull, killing him on the spot in issue #5. He then deflected the guard Horace's single bullet into Horace's own eye and walked out of a prison that had been engineered to make escape impossible.

It was not even the first time he had weaponised his own teeth: back in Captain America Vol. 1 #372 (1990) a jailed Bullseye smashed his own head to loosen a tooth, spat it into a guard's eye when the man rushed in, and took his gun. The lesson Marvel's prison designers keep relearning is that disarming Bullseye is meaningless — his body is the arsenal.

Why It's Obscure

Most killers need a weapon smuggled in; Bullseye's smuggler, quartermaster and armoury are all the same person.

#5, 2005

The tooth shot — Bullseye: Greatest Hits #5: a beating loosens the tooth, and Bullseye spits it through Agent Hoskins' skull.

#372, 1990

The first tooth — Captain America #372 had already shown him loosening a tooth on purpose in a cell and spitting it into a guard's eye.

Full shackles

The precautions — His hands were sealed in enclosed shackles and the room kept empty; the system accounted for everything except his mouth.

One bullet

The guard's limit — Horace, the guard posted outside, was permitted exactly one bullet — Bullseye deflected it into Horace's eye.

Gallery

The grin that loaded the gun — Bullseye on the cover of the issue where his own tooth became the murder weapon.

Bullseye Greatest Hits issue 5 cover, Bullseye grinning — **The smile before the shot** Bullseye: Greatest Hits #5 cover — the grin is the point: the tooth Hoskins knocked loose in this issue is the one Bullseye spat into his skull.

Bullseye comic cover art — **The man himself** Bullseye in costume: a killer whose accuracy turns anything loose — including parts of himself — into ordnance.

Bullseye comic art — **Nothing in his hands** Bullseye needs no props on a cover; in the cell he proved he does not need them in a fight either.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

Bullseye's tooth kill in Greatest Hits — Popverse Describes the shackled Bullseye spitting a dislodged tooth into the guard's brain in Bullseye: Greatest Hits (2004).
Horace (Bullseye foe) — Marvel Appendix Issue-by-issue record of Greatest Hits #5: the tooth spat into Hoskins' skull, and Horace killed by his own deflected bullet.
Born Again echoes an iconic Bullseye moment — Bam Smack Pow Traces the tooth weapon to Greatest Hits #5 (2005) and back to Captain America #372 (1990), where he spat a tooth into a guard's eye.