Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 9
Release Date: December 1985
Highlights
- Death of Smithville Thunderbolt, AKA Fred Hopkins
- Last appearance of Roxanne DeWinter, and Ludlow Grimes
- First appearance of Amy Grimes, Willy Grimes, and Jeff Grimes
- There are two prologues, the first takes place thirty years ago, the second, one year ago
- The first prologue retells the origin of Fred Hopkin's Thunderbolt, and the second of Ludlow Grimes'
- Ludlow finds the meteor piece while tilling a field, and picking it up, draws strength from it
- Ludlow returns home from his day of work, and as his wife serves dinner with him and the children, Ludlow swings a hand at a fly, hitting the house, and destroying the wall
- In a panic, his wife grabs the kids, calls him a monster, and screams at him to leave
- As the fight between Ludlow and Spider-Man takes place, Roxanne stands back taking photos, and dreaming of her future journalist jobs in New York
- During the battle, Fred runs away
- Spider-Man tells Roxanne to get help, which she says she will, right after she finishes her roll of film, and gets it to a lab for development
- We learn of Ludlow's troubles after getting his powers; being branded a demon, hunted by his neighbors, and determined to become the next Thunderbolt to gain admiration as opposed to fear
- Fred sets up another scheme to stop Roxanne from publishing her story, but as she finds out that she's being tricked, Ludlow attacks, knocking her van, with her inside, over the edge of a cliff
- As Spider-Man and Ludlow fight, Fred climbs down the cliff to help Roxanne
- Ludlow realizes that Fred is a hero, and that he did it without powers, and stops his rampage
- S.H.I.E.L.D. recruits Ludlow, and promises to not only help him, but reunite him with his family
- Despite everything, Roxanne still publishes her story on Fred, exposing his secret identity
- Fred commits suicide, and Roxanne, being the ***** she is, pulls out her camera, and starts snapping photos of his body
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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