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Events of 616

Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 1

  • Contains Amazing Fantasy 15, & ASM issues 1-10

  • Peter Parker is a regular teenager attending Midtown High who gets bitten by a radioactive spider

  • He realizes he can cling to and climb surfaces 

  • He makes money wrestling by using his new strength and creates a costume as well as web-shooters

  • He dubs himself Spiderman 

  • After a tv interview, Spiderman neglects to stop a thief who tragically kills his Uncle Ben. He vows to use his powers more responsibly

  • After literally gaining 15 minutes of fame as an entertainer, a man named J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle, sullies Spiderman’s name for no reason

  • Spiderman saves Jonah’s astronaut son John Jameson from a failed shuttle launch infuriating Jonah even more prompting another public attack

  • Spiderman tries joining up with the Fantastic Four but after finding out they’re a non-profit organization, he leaves

  • The Chameleon is introduced and thwarted 

  • Peter takes up freelance at the Daily Bugle and sells Jameson pictures of the Vulture who is incarcerated 

  • The Tinkerer is introduced

  • Atomic physicist Otto Octavius aka Dr. Octopus has an accident at an Atomic Research Center whereby an apparatus possessing four metal tentacles adhere to his body and can now mentally control them. The accident also affects his mind

  • Doc Ock humiliates Spiderman in their first encounter 

  • After an inspiring speech from the Human Torch, Spidey regains his confidence and beats Doc Ock

  • Sandman is introduced

  • Doctor Doom attempts to turn Spiderman against the FF

  • Flash Thompson, Peter’s rival at school, pretends to be Spiderman and is taken by Doom

  • Spiderman thwarts Doom while the FF rescue Flash 

  • Peter begins taking notice of the secretary at the Daily Bugle, Betty Brant

  • Simultaneously, his classmate Liz Allan begins taking notice of him

  • A humanoid lizard appears in the Florida Everglades and the news spreads to New York

  • Spiderman confronts the Lizard and finds out from Martha Connors that Lizard is her husband Dr. Curt Connors, a world renowned herpetologist

  • He lost his right arm in the Vietnam War and attempted to regrow it using lizard DNA 

  • It is successful but also transforms him into The Lizard who is a different being akin to Banner and Hulk

  • Vulture is thwarted again. Betty and Peter begin a will-they-won’t-they

  • Peter knocks Flash out of the ring in a boxing match

  • He fights and beats a robot called The Living Brain 

  • Spiderman arrogantly provokes Human Torch and a rivalry begins. He childishly mocks him because he’s jealous 

  • Electro is introduced 

  • Spiderman deals with The Big Man and his Enforcers 

  • Big Man is a mobster who is actually Daily Bugle columnist Frederick Foswell. He goes to jail

  • Jameson internally admits to himself that he jealously hates Spiderman because Spiderman is selfless while he is selfish