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Quote1 Hello, God... This is Peter Parker. Can I ask a favor? I know I've been your personal cat toy for the last few years...but can we not do that to me again for a while? Not real long, I know the odds on that are about zero...but just for a little while. Say...fifty or sixty years? I mean, that's not long in your terms, right? Just kidding, God... Just kidding. But I'll bet you knew that, didn't you? Quote2
Spider-Man after defeating Morlun

Appearing in "Coming Out"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #35

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Later, Peter gets out of his suit, finally getting some sleep. Aunt May comes in the apartment, worried after Peter's phone call. She goes in the room, and finds Peter badly injured, with a torn-up Spider-Man suit on the floor next to him...

Synopsis for "Coming Out"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #35

Spider-Man duplicates and transfers radiation into his system. Morlun was after him because Spider-Man was "pure", but now Morlun was walking right into a trap. Morlun finds Spider-Man lying on the ground. He prepares to absorb Spider-Man, and does so, only to stop in the middle, finding that he has absorbed much more radiation than he could handle. Spider-Man beats down Morlun to a pulp. The villains then falls to the ground, losing life and returning to his cellular state. Morlun surrenders, but Spider-Man knows he cannot let Morlun live, or Morlun would just get his power back and attack him again. Morlun's assistant, Dex, comes in, telling Morlun that he quits, and then shoots Morlun in the chest. Morlun falls to the ground, dying, and then starts to turn into dust. Dex runs away. Spider-Man chases him, and then catches him. Dex tells Spider-Man that Morlun hurt him a lot. Spider-Man lets him go, and swings away. Spider-Man goes to Ezekiel's office. He wonders if Ezekiel could be alive. He sees barefoot prints on the windows.

Appearing in "Flowers for Rhino Part 1 of 2: Rhinoplasty"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Man's Tangled Web #5

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Synopsis for "Flowers for Rhino Part 1 of 2: Rhinoplasty"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Man's Tangled Web #5
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Appearing in "The Man Called Electro!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #9

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Synopsis for "The Man Called Electro!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #9

Spider-Man is dashing past a group of pedestrians who are wondering where he is off to. Then the police are happy to see Spider-Man swinging by to help them stop gunmen, but he just swings by. Soon we find out the reason for Spider-Man rushing by was to get a prescription for Aunt May. On the other side of town, while Peter sits up at Aunt May's bedside, a new menace in the form of Electro charges himself up with electricity and sets out to steal the contents of an armored car carrying gold. After using electric shocks to scare the guards and surrounding them in a ring of electricity he manages to get what he wants.

The next morning, Peter calls the doctor and he explains that Aunt May's health is worse and that she must go to the hospital. Aunt May is worried that Peter cannot look after himself, but he assures her he can. Later that day, Peter goes to class but ignores the taunts of Flash Thompson as his mind is focused on the well being of Aunt May. When Peter finally visits Aunt May, he finds Betty Brant there visiting. Peter has much on his mind and leaves abruptly, without seeing Betty home.

Meanwhile, Electro decides to make a withdrawal at the Forest Hills Bank. There he uses electric shocks to keep the bank manager and his guest J. Jonah Jameson busy while he opens the timelock vault with his electrical powers. The next edition of the Daily Bugle is printed and there is an article claiming the criminal Electro is Spider-Man. Spider-Man searches for Electro and comes up empty a few times, and when he finally finds him, Electro defeats him. The next edition of the Bugle again claims to have proof that Spider-Man is Electro, which makes the public ask questions about who Spider-Man really is.

At a secret hideout after also reading the Bugle, Max Dillon tells his origin. When he's finished, he goes to the West Side House of Detention in downtown New York, where he sets about freeing some prisoners to become his flunkies. Jameson travels down there to see if Spider-Man shows up and to prove that they are one and the same. Peter is tied up looking after his aunt at the hospital but wants to go to the House of Detention to take photos for the Bugle. When Spider-Man finally turns up at the House of Detention, Jameson realizes his mistake: Electro and Spider-Man are different people.

Spider-Man quickly puts rubber gloves on his hands and rubber boots on his feet to insulate him from the electric bolts he will face when he finds Electro. After a long fight with the inmates and Electro, Spider-Man finally defeats Electro with a fire hose and removes his mask, expecting to know who Electro is.

Afterward Peter sells pictures of Electro fighting Spider-Man to J. Jonah Jameson, receiving some much-needed money to help Aunt May. The story ends with Betty and Peter trying to find the right words to say to each other.

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This is a UK title that features reprints of American Spider-Man titles.

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