Appearing in "The Parents of Peter Parker!"
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Aunt May (Appears in flashback)
- Richard Parker (First appearance) (Death) (Appears in flashback)
- Mary Parker (First appearance) (Death) (Appears in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Red Skull (Malik)
- Sandor (First appearance)
- Finisher (First appearance) (Death)
- Ahab, Amal and other goons under employ of the Red Skull
Other Characters:
- Harry Osborn (Cameo)
- Gwen Stacy (Cameo)
- Ben Parker (Appears in flashback)
- Fantastic Four (Cameo)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
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Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- Unnamed Prototype jet
Synopsis for "The Parents of Peter Parker!"
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5
When helping Aunt May move stuff around the attic, Peter accidentally breaks open a storage trunk filled with photos and other items belonging to his parents. Among these is a newspaper clipping that identifies that his parents were traitors to their country. Mortified, Peter questions his Aunt May, who tells him of his parents and the last time they saw them alive and how she and his Uncle Ben adopted him when they were killed.
Unable to shake this idea from his mind, Peter decides to learn the full story, and so as Spider-Man he seeks the Fantastic Four's aid in helping him travel to the last place his parents were reported seen alive: Algeria. There he learns that his parents were supposedly spies who worked for the Red Skull, and he came across their ID badges for the Skull's organization. Spider-Man also stumbles upon the Red Skull himself, who is in the country to organize a new plot to take over the world.
Spider-Man clashes with the Skull and his men and eventually learns from one of them that Richard and Mary Parker were murdered by the Red Skull when they refused to do his bidding. Believing his parents to have died heroes, he goes after the Red Skull once more and defeats him in battle. In the aftermath, he finds that his father's Red Skull ID card has been cracked in the battle, and finds ID cards underneath that identify them as anti-espionage agents, proving to Peter that his parents were secret government operatives. With evidence to clear his parents' names, Peter returns to the United States, happy to know that in reality, his parents died serving their country instead of betraying it.