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
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