Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 13
Release Date: April 1986
Highlights
- First appearance of Buddy Corbett, Friel, and Mike
- Seeing Spider-Man webbing above, Buddy Corbett panics, and runs across the street
- He's hit by a truck, which Spider-Man webs in hopes of slowing it down
- Friel, a young photographer who wants to be like Peter Parker snaps photos, and races to the Bugle to sell them
- J. Jonah Jameson praises him for catching Spider-Man on film looking like the menace he is
- Reporters swarm Buddy's room to interview him, and his doctor attempts to shoe them away
- J. Jonah Jameson arrives at the hospital with Peter Parker, intent on meeting with Buddy and the press
- When stopped by the same doctor, Jameson demands him to get out of his way, tells the guy he's on the board of directors for the hospital, and that if he doesn't move, he'll learn that E.R. also stands for "easily replaced"
- Buddy asks Jonah when he's getting out of the hospital because he doesn't have insurance, but Jonah assures him he'll be taking care of all the bills
- In an attempt to stop robbers of an ATM, Spider-Man is approached by a mob who condemn him, and then physically assault him, tearing his black suit
- Now both his suits are damaged, the previous being last issue where is red and blue suit was caught in the fire in his apartment
- The news also blasts Spider-Man, sending Peter into a rage
- Mary Jane calls, and tries to calm him down, but to no avail
- Ben Urich figures out that Buddy is a con artists, and in other cities went by different names
- With the gig up, Buddy confesses he was running a scam for someone, and when he saw Spider-Man panicked because he thought the hero was on to him
- Spider-Man crashes through the window of J. Jonah Jameson's office, intent on punching the man in his face for all his hateful articles which turned the public against him
- J.Jonah Jameson informs Spider-Man that he merely wrote the news as the public percieved it, and thanks Spider-Man for the compliment that he's such a good writer that even he, Spider-Man believes it now
- Jameson then tells Spider-Man that maybe he is a menace, he is, after all, there to beat him up
- Robbie informs Jameson of what Urich found out, and how bad it will look for Jameson since he publicly announced he would foot all the hospital bills
- Because he is a journalist at heart, Jonah tells him to run the story
- None
Oddities
- Peter says he doesn't have the money or insurance to repair his apartment - Why would he have to pay those costs? It would be a Landlord responsibility for the structural repairs
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