Appearing in "The Alien Costume"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Daily Bugle
- J. Jonah Jameson
- Robbie Robertson
- Daily Bugle Staff
- NASA (First appearance)
- John Jameson (First appearance)
- Paul Stevens (First appearance)
- Flash Thompson
- Felicia Hardy
- Aunt May
Antagonists:
- Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich) (First appearance)
- Kingpin (Wilson Fisk)
- Alistair Smythe
Other Characters:
- News presenter (First appearance)
- Daily Bugle staff
- Eddie Brock
- Luke Perry (Mentioned)
- Motorists
- Pedestrians
- Wolverine (Photo)
- New York City Police Department
- Government military post guards
Locations:
- Earth-TRN566
- Galaxy
- Asteroid
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Daily Bugle Building
- Chrysler Building (Kingpin's Crime Central)
- Empire State University
- Queens
- John F. Kennedy International Airport (First appearance)
- Forest Hills
- Government military post
- Manhattan
- George Washington Bridge (First appearance)
- Hudson River (First appearance)
- New Jersey (State) (Mentioned)
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Galaxy
Items:
- Alien Costume (First appearance)
- Prometheum X (First appearance)
- Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) (First appearance)
- Space Shuttle Entry Terminal Area Energy Management (T.A.E.M.) (First appearance)
- Spider-Man's Red and Blue Suit
- Spider-Man's Web-Shooters
- Spider-Tracer
- Control rods
Vehicles:
- Space Shuttle Victory (First appearance)
- Lander spacecraft (First appearance)
- Traffic
- Eddie Brock's car
- Smythe's hoverchair
- Helicopters
- Police cars
Synopsis for "The Alien Costume"
Astronauts John Jameson and Paul Stevens visit a newly discovered asteroid, where they discover a new fissionable material named "Prometheum X", as well as unintentionally picking up a fluid black alien life form. As they prepare for their landing at Kennedy Airport, they are attacked by the alien, causing them to crash land on the George Washington Bridge. The Kingpin sends the Rhino to steal the Prometheum X.
Spider-Man arrives at the crash site in order to save the pilots, but is attacked by the Rhino who steals the Prometheum X. Eddie Brock witnesses the fight, and although he takes photos of the Rhino fleeing the scene he decides not to reveal them, and instead tells J. Jonah Jameson that Spider-Man robbed the shuttle.
As Spider-Man leaves the scene, the alien from the shuttle sticks to his costume, but he passes off the black fluid as pollution from the Hudson River. When he returns home, he becomes agitated after hearing Jonah Jameson's broadcast issuing a one million dollar bounty on Spider-Man, and vows to quit his life as Spider-Man before going to sleep. While he sleeps, the alien attaches itself to him and he awakes to find himself in an unfamilar black costume on top of a Manhattan skyscraper. After evading some men who try to capture him for Jameson's reward, he discovers that the costume has enhanced his spider powers.
Meanwhile, the Rhino delivers the Prometheum X to the Kingpin, who sends him to steal some special control rods which Alistair Smythe claims to need in order to present the Prometheum's power to Kingpin's buyers. Rhino is tracked by Spider-Man, who had stuck a Spider-Tracer to him during their previous fight, and Spider-Man easily gains the upper hand with his new costume. Spider-Man then prepares to kill the Rhino.
Notes
- This issue adapts "The Alien Costume, Part One", the seventh episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
Trivia
- Peter Parker has a Wolverine poster on his bedroom wall.
