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Some guy? You think you're just some guy? You think the crimes you commit don't matter? That nobody's ever gonna get hurt because of you? Frankie, buddy, I'm here to tell you... I know different. So yeah, the world might be going to Hell. Alien slime monsters might be eating the Empire State Building. But until you stop what you're doing, I'm never going to stop finding you and putting you away. Because to me, you're not "just some guy."

—Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Appearing in "Just Some Guy"

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  • Frankie Fama (Main story and flashback) (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "Just Some Guy"

Frankie Fama is a low level crook that "likes super-heroes" because the grand events that they handle allows a mook like him to commit breaking and entering while no one is looking. While the War of the Realms happens and the heroes are busy, Frankie breaks into a storehouse and is immediately found by Spider-Man, the one super-hero that routinely sends him to Ryker's Island. After a bad joke and leaving a note, Spider-Man recounts the past times that he left Frankie for the authorities. Three to five years later, Frankie goes to break into another warehouse after hours, but this time plans on Spider-Man showing up and is surprised by the appearance of the Enforcers when he does. Having convinced them that he can deliver Spider-Man right to them, they get the drop on the Web-Head until the hero showcases his powers to them: outmatching Montana, overpowering the Ox and outmaneuvering Fancy Dan. After Spidey webs up the Enforcers, Frankie tries to escape and demands an answer in panic as to why Spider-Man always has to hound him while super-events are going on at the same time, as he is just a nobody. Spider-Man questions his viewpoint and tells Frankie that he is not a nobody, as his actions have consequences, and Spider-Man will continue to stop him because Frankie is not "just some guy." Leaving Frankie webbed up for the authorities yet again, Spider-Man leaves another note and swings away.

Appearing in "Sinister 60th"

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Spider-Man yells at a teenaged Vulture II to go easy on his elder as they fight, but the Vulture II brings up Spider-Man's youth and how he fought the original Vulture, the super-hero conceding to his logic. In his mask earpiece, Spider-Man answers a call from his wife, Mary Jane Watson-Parker, letting him know that he is late for his birthday dinner reservation which she had made. As he webs up the Vulture II, she tells him that he does not need to leave a note as his work will speak for itself and he hurries over to her. He promises no more stops and they end the call, then he hears a cry for help and stops to help, but his old age slows his reflexes and a common mugger shoots Spider-Man repeatedly before fleeing, leaving the woman that he saved to call for an ambulance.

As Mary Jane continues to wait and the restaurant is about to close, she talks to the waiter before running out, having seen the news report on Spider-Man being fatally shot. As the EMTs try to help, a veteran medic tells the rookie to leave the mask half on out of respect for Spider-Man's decades-long community service. Meanwhile, Spider-Man imagines how he should have gone out in an epic brawl, like with the Sinister Six, but reflects that a common burglar may be poetic justice given Uncle Ben's death. A few days later, Spider-Man wakes up and is rather piqued that the other heroes did not visit, but the doctor directs him to the line of civilians coming by to pay him respects for the times that he saved them in one way or another... in a line stretching a few blocks long.

When it is Mary Jane's turn, she hears the stories leading up to her visit, and she whispers a time how he saved her, and he replies that those were the times she saved him, leading them to share a kiss. As soon as she leaves, the doctors race in, hearing a flatline, only for Spider-Man to have jumped out the window as the next guy came in, all to stop another mugging. Mary Jane chides him for being naked under a hospital gown doing so, as a doctor readies to discharge Spider-Man into Mary Jane's custody and another doctor ensures that he does not write that down out of respect for Spider-Man. At their home, with well wishes and flowers from the other heroes, Peter finds the goodie bag that Mary Jane brought was minus a birthday cake slice as she had eaten it, which she has done every year.

Appearing in "Spider-Man vs. Conspiriton"

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Synopsis for "Spider-Man vs. Conspiriton"

Peter is on the phone with his Aunt May when she tells him about a really untenable story, then heads out as Spider-Man and sees other people reading a copy of the Daily Bugle but reading different stories, getting into fights over what they perceive to be reading. At Jameson's office, the editor brags about receiving awards in the papers that the Bugle printed, but Peter only sees articles praising Spider-Man. In a hidden laboratory, Spider-Man wears an air filter on his mask and sees the real print on the newspaper, with the scanners detecting trace elements of hallucinogenic compounds and recalls something that Aunt May said about a cat at the ink depot. There, a guard confirms to Peter that someone broke in and took nothing, but Peter realizes that the ink depot supplies the Daily Bugle for their newsprints. His suspicions are confirmed when Spider-Man web-swings by a new large mecha-wearing supervillain who calls himself "Conspiriton." As he emits a hallucinogenic cloud, random citizens start to arm themselves in paranoid delusions as Spider-Man tries to find a way through the villain's steel armor. Spider-Man easily deduces that Conspiriton was paid by some gangsters to cause a ruckus for easier pilfering and, despite a concentrated dose of the gas to the face, attacks the armor to rip off the helmet in order to expose the pilot to the gas and defeat the new foe. Later on, Jameson is dismayed that he "lost" the Pulitzer Prize, and later swears to his staff to regain the trust of the public by pivoting their journalism to the Internet, as that is where the facts and the truth are.

Appearing in "The Kid's Got A Good Eye"

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On a nice summer day with an ice cream cone in hand and his camera ready, the high schooler Spider-Man (Peter Parker) thought he could get some pictures of him catching baddies in order to get a paycheck to take Betty Brant to the movies later. Thankfully, no one was in the mood to ne'er-do-well on a nice day, so Peter spent his last dollar on ice cream which was immediately ruined, as he forgot to pull up his mask, the better to eat it. While web-swinging as Spider-Man, Peter thinks that he should tell Betty that he is studying so that she will not know how broke he is, then swings through a water spray from an opened fire hydrant by some kids and takes some pictures of them, getting an idea to go around town taking pictures of people living their lives. Later, at the Daily Bugle, an irate J. Jonah Jameson scolds Peter on his collected pictures, but finds appeal in the last picture in the stack: the one of Spider-Man with ice cream all over his face and suit, failing to eat it. Cutting Peter a check for the minimum payment allowed, Jameson leaves to use his chosen photo and Betty greets Peter, having finished the last of the obituary column files that she had been assigned. Seeing if he is still up for a movie, her treat, Peter accepts Betty's offer while Joe "Robbie" Robertson is impressed by Peter's eye after finding a picture that Jameson had tossed, sending it to the copy desk to fill a hole on page 3.

Appearing in "In the Flesh"

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  • Arnulfa Gonzales (First appearance)

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Arnulfa Gonzales, who has struggled with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder since the age of 10, is now convinced that she has spiders crawling in her skin and is sedated once more at her hospital as the radio covers the one-year anniversary of the death of Captain George Stacy[1] before the death of the captain's daughter, Gwen Stacy,[2] creating rumors of a blood feud with the Stacy family. An orderly turns off the radio, uncomfortable with talk of Spider-Man, as the doctors talk about her routine relapses with medication refusal. In her bed, Arnulfa fixates on the delusions from her illness, with the voices in her head telling her how she belongs to them, reminding her of her father's death and her mother's deportation, her baby girl Luna's death and her ex-husband, Hector, walking out on her. But she is slapped out of her state by her roommate, Jolene, who frees her from her bindings as she races out for her own preservation, but runs into the fire and is burned to death. When she starts to have an episode in the fire, a giant spider calls her name and chases her, webbing her up to draw her in. The spider soon dispels and is revealed to be really Spider-Man, who calls her Gwen but corrects himself and takes off his mask. Showing her that he is a real person and not a hallucination, he reassures her that she is safe, as neither of them are a monster, and he carries her to the roof for rescue. Although she begs that he stay, he promises to come by later and asks that she get some sleep, which she does once one of the doctors checks on her, with the one new voice in her head now being the voice of Spider-Man.

Appearing in "Slaves of the Witch-Queen"

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Synopsis for "Slaves of the Witch-Queen"

The Witch-Queen flies about a museum, seeking slaves to bring to her era in ancient Egypt. Betty Brant directs Flash Thompson and Liz Allan to evacuate as Liz wonders where Peter ran off to, just as Spider-Man arrives to battle the new villain. Startled by his appearance, the Witch-Queen still fights back and sends living mummies to fight Spider-Man, but his spider-strength makes quick work of them. The Witch-Queen is in awe of Spider-Man's power, finding that everything thus far was more than what Rocco Rank described to her, and she elaborates on her travel from her time in ancient Egypt to modern New York City. Seeking slaves to work for her while her rule suffers through a great drought, one time-summoned slave was Rocco Rank, a modern petty criminal, who told stories of the modern day and was summoned by the Witch-Queen, who was convinced to go to modern New York to summon more slaves and take in the wonders of the future. So, Spider-Man directs her to leave the museum and she is rather disgusted by the future, like rancid air by industrial and vehicular expulsion, as well as overweight and unhealthy people. When frightened by fighter jets, Spider-Man elaborates that there is a military base full of them and that, should she defeat them, then she would have to contend with other super-heroes that are just like him. Understanding completely, the Witch-Queen recalls all of her minions from the modern era and Spider-Man seals up the sarcophagus behind her. He also captures Rocco Rank, content with doing time for a simple breaking and entering, but he muses on the others that are still enslaved. Spider-Man voices having had a hand in that matter, as the Witch-Queen, now back in the past, orders all of her slaves to be freed so that they can go wherever they wish and returns others to their proper times, frightened of Spider-Man's retaliation, and will meditate on what to do next. Having seen the future and once thinking it to be an amazing fantasy, actually experiencing it proved that it was not such a thing after all.

Appearing in "You Get It"

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Appearing in "With Great Power..."

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  • Neil Gaiman

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Appearing in "Along Came A Rhino..."

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Solicit Synopsis

The comic that brought you SPIDER-MAN hits issue #1000!

We're going big to celebrate in this, our thousandth issue of AMAZING FANTASY! An ALL-STAR roster of creators are coming together to celebrate Peter Parker and Spider-Man's birthdays!

Trivia

  • The panel where Spider-Man saves Arnulfa during "In the Flesh" is an homage to Amazing Spider-Man #90, the death of Captain George Stacy, which was cited as being one year prior to this story.

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