Amazing Spider-Man #42

[iamrman]

Spidey hits the jackpot! Also, something-something John Jameson, something-something space spores.

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[metadronos]

And comics history is made!

I remember, as a kid, reading the newspaper-comic version of the John Jameson story (back when Lee and Romita were still doing the strip). It played out pretty much the way it did here, although I remember the spore-influenced John using rather more... final language in conversation with his dad. Instead of merely wanting to "beat the tar" out of Spider-Man, he wanted to "destroy him."

Oh, and the newspaper version wasn't linked to the MJ reveal; in that continuity Peter had met and begun an on-and-off relationship with her a long time ago. In fact, if memory serves me correctly MJ was, at the time (very early 80s), on a long extended-leave from the strip; Peter's girlfriend then was Carole Jennings.

[tripodeca113]

And so Mary Jane saunters on stage and supplants all other Spider-Man love interests with the exception of Black Cat.

What does Betty Brant have? Blaming Spider-Man for her brother's death (and that time in the 80's she was a gun totting vigilante)
What does Gwen Stacey have? Dying.....
What does Deborah Whitman have?......um.....

[iamrman]

"What does Deborah Whitman have?"

Severe trust issues thanks to Peter's gaslighting?

[blues32]

Hey, he flat out confessed his secret identity to her. She's the one who laughed it off and didn't believe him.

[cainofdreaming]

And here I thought the Astartes were a product of genetic manipulation and cybernetic implants rather than space spores. Guess you do learn something every day.