This game is for lowlifes. Dangerous people who don't deserve to keep goin' anyway. And that sure as hell don't apply to the smartest, prettiest, connivingest gal in the world, my Janice.
Appearing in "The Crime of the Century, Part 1"
Featured Characters:
- Beetle (Janice Lincoln) (Main story and flashback) (Origin revealed)
Supporting Characters:
- Tombstone (Lonnie Lincoln) (Main story and flashback)
- Fixer (Paul Norbert Ebersol) (Main story and flashback)
- Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Mentallo (Marvin Flumm) (Mentioned)
- Mallory Aimes (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Kelli (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Patricia (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Al (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Thunderbolts (Mentioned)
- Winter Soldier / Bucky (James Barnes) (Only in flashback)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only in flashback)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Captain America's Shield (Only in flashback)
- Smart Armor
Synopsis for "The Crime of the Century, Part 1"
A series of flashbacks shows how Tombstone never wanted Janice to enter his world, and so he paid her for law school and she later went to work in a law firm as a lawyer. One day she is entrusted with the task of mediating between Baron Zemo and Fixer and managed to reconcile them and discovered that they are looking for someone to turn into a supervillain, she volunteers, thus assuming the identity of the Beetle.
Solicit Synopsis
• The Sleeper hit of the year continues!
• Can’t do the time? Speed Demon shouldn’t have done the crime.
• Spencer, Lieber, Rosenberg, Caramagna, and a group of Foes on the brink!Trivia
- Janice mentions the television series Homeland and the politician "Carlos Danger" (pseudonym of Anthony Weiner).
See Also
- 7 image(s) from Superior Foes of Spider-Man Vol 1 7
- 1 reprint(s) of Superior Foes of Spider-Man Vol 1 7