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Quote1 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." Quote2
—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 superheroes because the grand events they handle allows a mook like him to commit breaking and entering. While the War of the Realms happens and the heroes are busy, Frankie breaks in to a store house and is immediately found by Spider-Man, the one cape that routinely sends him to Ryker's Island. After a bad joke and leaving a note, Spider-Man recounts the past times 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 he can deliver them Spider-Man, they get the drop on the web-head until the hero showcases his powers to them: outmatching Montana, overpowering 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's just a nobody. Spider-Man questions his viewpoint and tells Frankie that he isn't some nobody, as his actions have consequences, and Spider-Man will continue to stop him because Frankie isn't just some guy. Leaving Frankie webbed up for the authorities again, Spider-Man leaves another note and web-swings away.

Appearing in "Sinister 60th"

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Spider-Man yells at a teenage Vulture II to go easy on his elder as they fight, but Vulture II brings up Spider-Man's youth and how he fought the original; the superhero conceding to his logic. In his mask earpiece, Spider-Man answers a call from his wife, Mary Jane Watson-Parker, letting him know he's late for his birthday dinner reservation which she made. As he webs up Vulture II, she tells him that he doesn't 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, but 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 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, Spidey 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 given Uncle Ben's death. A few days later, Spider-Man wakes up and is rather piqued the other heroes didn't visit, but the doctor directs him to the line of civilians coming by to pay him respects for the times he saved them one way or another-- in a line stretching a few blocks long.

When it's Mary Jane's turn, she hears the stories leading up to her visit, and she whispers a time asked how he saved her, and he replies that those were 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 Spidey into Mary Jane's custody and another doctor ensures he doesn't write that down out of respect for Spider-Man. At their home, with well wishes and flowers from other heroes, Peter finds the goodie bag Mary Jane brought was minus a birthday cake slice as she ate it, which she does 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 Parker when she tells him about a really untenable story, then heads out as Spider-Man and see other people reading a copy of the Daily Bugle but reading different stories, getting into fights over what they perceive to be reading. At Jonah's office, the editor brags about receiving awards in the papers the Bugle printed, but Peter only sees articles praising Spider-Man. In a hidden lab, 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 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-mech-wearing villains self dubbed "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 giant 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 to the face, attacks the suit to rip off the helmet to expose the pilot to the gas and defeat the new foe. Later on, Jonah is dismayed that he "lost" the pulitzer, and later swears to his staff to regain the trust of the public by pivoting their journalism to the internet as that's where the facts and 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 photos of him catching baddies to get a paycheck to take Betty Brant to the movies later. Thankfully, nobody 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 to better eat the ice cream. While web-swinging as Spider-Man, Peter thinks he should tell Betty he's studying so she won't know how broke he is, then swings through a water spray from an opened fire hydrant by some kids, and takes some photos 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 scold Peter on his collected, but finds appeal in the last photo in the stack: the one of Spider-Man with ice cream over his face and suit, failing to eat it. Cutting Peter a check for the minimum payment, Jonah leaves to use his chosen photo and Betty greets Peter, having finished the last of the obituary column files she had assigned. Seeing if he's still up for a movie her treat, Peter accepts Betty's offer while Robbie Robertson is impressed by Peter's eye after finding a photo Jonah tossed, sending it to the copydesk to fill a hole on Page Three.

Appearing in "In the Flesh"

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  • Arnulfa Gonzales (First appearance)

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Arnulfa Gonzales struggles with schizophrenic syndrome and bipolar disorder since age ten, convinced 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, the voices telling her how she belongs to them, reminding her of her father's death and mother's deportation, her baby Luna's death and ex-husband Hector walking out on her. But she's slapped out of her state by roommate Jolene, who frees her from her binding as she races for her own preservation, but runs into the fire and burns 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 really Spider-Man, who calls her Gwen but corrects himself and takes off his mask. Showing he's a person, he reassures her she's safe, as neither of them are a monster, and he carries her to the roof for rescue. Although she begs he stay, he promises to come by later and asks she get some sleep, and she does once one of the doctors checks on her, with the voice in her head now 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 the 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 mummies to fight Spider-Man, but his strength makes quick work of them. The Witch-Queen is in awe of Spider-Man's power, finding everything thus far was more than what Rocco Rank described to her, and she elaborates her travel from her time in Egypt to modern New York City. Seeking slaves to work while her rule suffers 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 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 there's a military base full of them, and should she defeat them then she'd have to contend with other heroes like him. Understanding, the Witch-Queen recalls all her minions from the modern era and Spider-Man seals the sarcophagus. He also captures Rocco Rank, content with doing time for a simple breaking and entering, but he muses on the others still enslaved. Spider-Man voices having had a hand in that matter, as the Witch-Queen in the past orders all slaves freed to go wherever 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 an amazing fantasy, experiencing it proved that it was not at 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 from the Amazing Spider-Man #90, the death of George Stacy, which was cited as being one year prior to this story.

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