Appearing in "Electrical Problems!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Daily Bugle Staff
- Aunt May (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Daily Bugle newspaper
- Brick
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Electrical Problems!"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "Namesake"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
- NYPD (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Manhattan
- Fort Tryon Park
- The Cloisters
Items:
- Neo-symbiote (First appearance; dies)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Namesake"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "What If Spider-Man Had Joined the Fantastic Four?"
What If? #1
Featured Characters:
- Fantastic Four / Fantastic Five (First appearance)
- Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (First appearance)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (First appearance)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (First appearance)
- Invisible Girl (Susan Storm) (First appearance) (Leaves)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (First appearance) (Main story and recap) (Joins)
Supporting Characters:
- Uatu the Watcher
- May Parker (First appearance)
- J. Jonah Jameson (First appearance)
- Watcher (Earth-772) (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- The Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov) (First appearance)
- The Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (First appearance)
- Red Ghost (Ivan Kragoff) (First appearance)
- Super-Apes (First appearance)
- Namor the Sub-Mariner (First appearance)
- Hypno-Fish (First appearance)
- Giant Octopus (First appearance)
- The Puppet Master (Phillip Masters) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Fantastic Four (Only in recap)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in recap)
- Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Only in recap)
- Invisible Woman (Susan Richards) (Only in recap)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in recap)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only in recap)
- Thing (Reed Richards) (Only in recap)
- Killraven (Jonathan Raven) (Only in recap)
- Martian Masters (Only in recap)
- Invaders (Only in recap)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only in recap)
- Bucky (James Barnes) (Only in recap)
- Namor the Sub-Mariner (Only in recap)
- Human Torch (Jim Hammond) (Only in recap)
- Toro (Thomas Raymond) (Only in recap)
- Avengers (Only in recap)
- Radioactive Spiders (Only in recap)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Only in recap)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only in recap)
- Vision (Only in recap)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (Only in recap)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Only in recap)
- Squadron Supreme (Only in recap)
- Hyperion (Mark Milton) (Only in recap)
- Whizzer (Stanley Stewart) (Only in recap)
- Dr. Spectrum (Joseph Ledger) (Only in recap)
- Lady Lark (Linda Lewis) (Only in recap)
- Golden Arrow (Wyatt McDonald) (Only in recap)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only in recap)
- Superman (Earth-7642) (Behind the scenes in recap)
- Deathlok (Luther Manning) (Only in recap)
- Daily Bugle (Referenced)
- General Motors (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Al Capone (Mentioned)
- Dr. Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)
- Ben Parker (Only in recap)
- Ed (reporter) (First appearance)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
- NASA (Mentioned)
- John Jameson (Mentioned)
- NYPD (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Watchers
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Martian Masters (Only in recap)
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Main story and recap)
- Synthezoids (Only in recap)
- Mutants (Only in recap)
- Eternals (Only in recap)
- Kryptonians (Behind the scenes in recap)
- Robots (Only in recap)
- Apes (First appearance)
- Hypno-Fish (First appearance)
- Giant Octopus (First appearance)
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Moon
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- Queens (Only in recap)
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (Only in recap)
- New York Hall of Science (Only in recap)
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (Only in recap)
- Queens (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- Earth-721 (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- Earth-691 (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- Earth-TRN558 (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- Earth-7642 (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- Columbus Circle (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- Earth-7484 (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- Earth-772 (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- United States of America (First appearance)
- New York (First appearance)
- New York City (First appearance)
- Queens (First appearance)
- Forest Hills (First appearance)
- Aunt May's House (First appearance)
- Midtown High School (Mentioned)
- Forest Hills (First appearance)
- Manhattan (First appearance)
- Baxter Building (First appearance)
- Rockefeller Center (First appearance)
- Queens (First appearance)
- New York City (First appearance)
- Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California (Mentioned)
- New York (First appearance)
- Sub-Mariner's Domed Undersea Villa (First appearance)
- United States of America (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
Items:
- Fantastic Four Uniforms (Main story and recap)
- Spider-Men's Suits and Web-Shooters (Main story and recap)
- Captain Americas' Uniforms and Shields (Only in recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Only in recap)
- Psychic Clay
- Vulture's Wings (Only in recap)
Vehicles:
- Marvel-1 (Only in recap) (Unnamed)
- The Fantasti-Car
- The Puppet Master's Submarine
- The Fantasti-Sub
Events:
- World War II (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "What If Spider-Man Had Joined the Fantastic Four?"
What If? #1
Uatu the Watcher explains to the readers that there exist many realities. In each alternate reality, there is a divergence from what what has happened and what could have happened.
The Watcher focuses on an alternate reality in which Spider-Man attempts to join the Fantastic Four as a solution to his money problems. Originally, Spider-Man is turned down by the group, but in this alternate reality they allow Spider-Man to join, causing the birth of the Fantastic Five.
With Spider-Man on the team, his association with the Fantastic Four grants him acceptance from the population unlike his mainstream counterpart, who is labeled a menace by the Daily Bugle.
The Fantastic Five take on a number of villains, including the Vulture and the Red Ghost and his Super-Apes. While Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Human Torch and Spider-Man go on these adventures, the Invisible Girl often stays behind to monitor things from base.
Sue is eventually seduced into meeting Namor the Sub-Mariner, who is under the control of the Puppet Master to get revenge on the Fantastic Five.
After freeing Sue and Namor from the Puppet Master's control, Sue decides that she loves Namor and wants to stay in his kingdom with him, after months of neglect from the team thanks to Spider-Man's inclusion in the group. Accepting her request, Namor conditions her body so that she can breathe underwater (a process that is apparently permanent), and the remainder of her former comrades leave in defeat, Spider-Man regretting to have joined the group.
Appearing in "The Bigger They Are..."
Spider-Man J #3
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Detective Flynn
- Aunt May
- Jane Marie (Mentioned)
- Harold Osborn (Mentioned)
Villains:
- Lord Beastius
- B-Warrior Tough Goraias
- General Wasperus
Other Characters:
- Mary Parker (Mentioned)
- Richard Parker (Mentioned)
Locations:
Items:
Synopsis for "The Bigger They Are..."
Spider-Man J #3
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "Hulk Date"
Hulk and Power Pack #4
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Storm
- The Thing
- Hawkeye
- Captain America
- Iron Man
- Thor
- Gen. Thunderbolt Ross (First appearance)
- Betty Ross (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Hulkbuster (First appearance)
Locations:
Synopsis for "Hulk Date"
Hulk and Power Pack #4
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
Remember back in the day, when super heroes would fight other super heroes? What? That still happens? Civil…what?
Well, ANYway…we’re taking you back in time, when Spidey was pretty new at all this super hero stuff, and would make silly mistakes, like, oh, say..knocking out the Invisible Girl! I think her friends might want to have a talk with the web-crawler…
Also! We’ve got a backup story featuring TWO Scorpions, Spider-Man J and classic Spidey archives !