Old Lace (comics) Old Lace (comics) Old Lace (often nicknamed as OL) is a superheroine fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Old Lace appears in the Hulu television series "Runaways" which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Old Lace was created by Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona and debuted attacking the other characters in "Runaways" vol. 1 #2. Old Lace was given her name by Gertrude Yorkes after she had taken the code name Arsenic, making the pair Arsenic and Old Lace, which is a reference to a movie of the same name. Old Lace
Old Lace (comics) engineered in the 87th century, the project being commissioned by Dale and Stacey Yorkes, the parents of Gertrude. At the parents request, the designer also put in several character traits which included a tele-empathic bond with Gertrude as well as being incapable of harming any of her immediate family, as discovered when Gertrude orders Old Lace to attack her parents and Old Lace refuses. Old Lace was originally intended to be part of Gert's inheritance for when her parents died but Gertrude and the rest of the Runaways stumble upon her while searching the Yorkes' basement for the body of