Coffee Bean

Coffee Bean
Name	Coffee Bean
Location Details
Reality	Earth-616
Galaxy	Milky Way
Star System	Sol
Planet	Earth
Country	United States of America
State	New York
City	New York City
Locale	Manhattan
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stan Lee, John Romita Sr.
First	Amazing Spider-Man #53 (July, 1967)
First	Amazing Spider-Man #53 (July, 1967)

History

A small coffee and malt shop on the corner of 8th Street and Astor Place, in the East Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. The Coffee Bean was regularly frequented by students from the nearby Empire State University, making it the academia's unofficial hangout. Peter Parker and his friends used to socialize here during their college days.

Back from a science expo, Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy reunited with their friends, as Aunt May came in and told them that she and Anna Watson were going to rent out an extra room in Anna's house.

The next day, Peter came back to the Coffee Bean to see Gwen and Mary Jane Watson, but he had to leave soon to check Aunt May's new boarder.

Some time later, Peter returned with Gwen to the ever-popular Coffee Bean to see their friends, but, as the financial woes got the better of him, causing him to snap at another one of Flash's harmless flirtations towards Gwen, he stormed out of the going away party.

Brand New Day

After returning from a "years-long stay in Europe", Harry Osborn bought the Coffee Bean, and often was on premises as proprietor. Harry had plans in place to franchise the Coffee Bean, projecting a billion dollars in profit during the first year. While Harry was proud of building something on his own, his father Norman was dismissive, and even authorized his Thunderbolts to wreck the Astor Place location while hunting Spider-Man. While Harry rebuilt, incidents such as these made it difficult for Harry to retain employees. He had even taken to sleeping in the manager's office. While Harry left town, both the Tribeca and Astor Place locations remained open.

Alternate Reality Versions

Earth-1048

On October 5th of 2014, Peter had filled out a job application for Coffee Bean, but he ended up never submitting it.

Residents

• Harry Osborn, owner and resident.
• Trina, a barista.
• Kenny Kong, barista.
• Shelly Conklin, barista.
• Max Vinck, barista.

Notes

• The Coffee Bean is decorated with framed posters, including one comparing movie director Woody Allen to a hobbit and another promoting "Fu Manchu for mayor." On Earth-616, Fu Manchu is a real supervillain, but is considered a fictional character by most of the population. The poster is a reference to advertisements that were printed and distributed in New York City for the 1965 film The Face of Fu Manchu, released during the 1965 mayoral election.
• Like Empire State University, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe depicted the Coffee Bean as being located in the East Village in Lower Manhattan. However, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 would later state the bistro was located at West 23rd Street in Midtown Manhattan. Despite this, several issues of Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1, post-One More Day, would consistently describe its location as being in the East Village, just off Astor Place, while an unaltered panel reproduced from Annual #21 would maintain the 23rd Street address. The Astor Place location would again be referenced in Amazing Spider-Man #674, further clarifying that it was on the corner of 8th and Astor.

Trivia

• The Coffee Bean is distinguished because the furniture squeaks and the air smells of caffeine.

See Also

• 96 appearance(s) of Coffee Bean
• 3 minor appearance(s) of Coffee Bean
• 20 mention(s) of Coffee Bean
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Coffee Bean
• 8 image(s) of Coffee Bean