Ryker's Island is a fictional comic book maximum security prison located in the New York City of Marvel Comics' Marvel Universe. It is a counterpart to the real-world New York prison Rikers Island and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #4. Apart from its conventional facilities for holding non-powered criminals, it also has its own specialized containment facilities for imprisoning superhuman convicts known as the Raft, which first appeared in Alias #26. In New Avengers #1 (written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by David Finch) The Raft was the setting of a large scale breakout in which several supervillains escaped from captivity. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Supermax is the name used to describe control-unit prisons or units within prisons, representing the most secure and austere levels of custody in the prison systems of the United States and other countries. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... View of Rikers Island Rikers Island is the name of New York Citys largest jail facility, as well as the name of the 415 acre (1. ... The Amazing Spider-Man is the title of both a comic book published by Marvel Comics and a daily newspaper comic strip. ... The Raft is a fictional comic book prison, created to house super-villains and rogue super-heroes in the Marvel Universe. ... Brian Michael Bendis (born August 18, 1967) is a American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. ... David Finch is a Canadian-born comic book artist who got his start working for Top Cow Productions. ... The Raft is a fictional comic book prison, created to house super-villains and rogue super-heroes in the Marvel Universe. ... The Green Goblin, a supervillain and enemy of Spider-Man. ...

Previous inmates include Sandman, The Punisher, Jigsaw, Bullseye, Kingpin, and Daredevil (Daredevil vol. 2 #80). Sandman is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe, traditionally an adversary of Spider-Man. ... The Punisher (Frank Castle) is a Marvel Comics anti-hero. ... Jigsaw is a fictional Marvel Comics villain of The Punisher. ... Bullseye is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe who is primarily an enemy of Daredevil. ... The Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics villain who has battled many Marvel crime-fighters, most often The Punisher, Spider-Man, and Daredevil. ... This article is about the Marvel Comics superhero. ...

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The Raft
List of correctional facilities in comics The Raft is a fictional comic book prison, created to house super-villains and rogue super-heroes in the Marvel Universe. ... The following is a list of prisons, asylums, institutions, planets, and alternate dimensions which have been used to imprison humans, superhumans, and nonhumans in various fictional comic book universes. ...