What If I Had Named This Set?
What If? 7
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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What If? 7
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0909738001
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Spider-Man looks like he's boogie-ing down!
Published: 2/78
In the prelude, Uatu recounts how Peter Parker became Spider-Man in preparation for the alternate versions of the story.
In the first version, Flash Thompson is bitten by the spider instead of Peter Parker. Peter, noticing the spider takes it with him to run some tests. Flash goes on to become a super hero and fights crime while Peter becomes his biggest fan. However, when Flash has his first fight with a super villain, the Vulture he is thrown away from his enemy in mid-flight. Flash, not being the science whiz that Parker is, never developed web fluid and is therefore unable to break his fall. He dies in an alley watched by Parker.
In the 2nd story, Betty Brant is present at the demonstration and is bitten by the spider. Once again, Parker discovers the spider and takes it into his possession. Betty confides in Parker that she has spider powers and Parker aids her in becoming a heroine, designing a costume and building her web shooters. Betty fights crime but refuses to use her spider strength in battle. However, when a criminal escapes from Betty she later finds that he killed Ben Parker she punches the criminal in rage. The blow proves to be fatal. Unable to cope with the fact that she took someone's life, Betty gives up on the life as a crime fighter and goes back to living an ordinary life.
In the last story, John Jameson is bitten by the radioactive spider. As was the case in the previous two stories, Parker obtains the spider. John's father Jonah Jameson learns of his son's new powers and immediately starts to endorse him in his paper and encourages him to become a crime fighter. John agrees and dons a costume and a jet pack. Like Flash Thompson he does not develop web shooters and when the runaway space capsule falls to Earth he relies solely on his jet pack to slow its decent. Unfortunately, the pack is not strong enough to slow the capsule's fall and he is crushed underneath it.
Very interesting. 2 of the 3 different storylines resulted in the death of the bitten person while the other results in the death of someone else at the hand of the bitten person.
That saying of "with great powers come great responsibility" was definitely presented as true in each of these scenarios.
Makes me wonder "What if I had been bitten by that ever-iconic radioactive spider"?
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