Ultimate Spider-Man 15
From Ultimarvel
[edit] “Confrontations”
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Mark Bagley
Inker: Art Thibert
Editor: Ralph Macchio
Publication Date: January 2002
• An unnamed woman is exercising in her home and is attacked by Dr. Octopus.
• Kong attempts to convince Flash and Liz that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. To attempt to prove his point, Kong kicks Peter in the hallway. Peter senses the threat with his spider-sense and reacts by taking the kick to protect his identity. Gwen Stacy witnesses the event and threatens Kong with a switchblade, threatening to cut him if he ever does something like that again. Gwen is caught by a passing teacher and sent to the principal’s office. She is subsequently expelled.
• Captain Stacy investigates the murder scene of the aforementioned unnamed woman attacked by Dr. Octopus. During this investigation, he is called by the school principal about the incident with his daughter, Gwen. Ben Urich arrives at the scene and questions Captain Stacy about the incident. Captain Stacy chastises Urich for his work on the Kingpin story and indicates that since the Kingpin’s departure, there are a massive number of criminals trying to make names and claim territory for themselves.
• Peter busts a random criminal in front of the Daily Bugle and runs into J. Jonah Jameson and Robbie Robertson. Peter confronts JJJ about the negative stories running about him in the Bugle, he then secretly webs JJJ’s feet to the ground and leaps off, leaving JJJ to fall forward on his face.
• Ben Urich meets with JJJ and Robbie Robertson and informs them that he has been investigating the murder case that he was at the scene of. The person that rented the house before the murder victim was Otto Octavius. Ben goes on to detail that Otto was one of the Chief Scientists at Osborn Industries and supposedly died during the explosion (Ultimate Spider-Man 4). Ben then mentions that he came in a few eeks ago and told JJJ that his sources confirmed that Octavius was taken to a Government Hospital/Medical Facility somewhere in South Jersey, code name Octagon. Ben says the same source called the previous day to tell him “Octavius escaped from the facility after murdering several government employees.” Peter Parker is shown to be listening in on this conversation while scenes of Dr. Octopus show him to be scaling a skyscraper and breaking through the windows into a upper floor office.
Notes:
- Flash references the Human Torch, however according to the Fantastic Four continuity; the Fantastic Four have not gone public yet so the name should not be known at this point.
- Captain Stacy makes the comment to Ben Urich, “Don’t you have sewer monsters to chase?”
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