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Historian's Note
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To be precise, I assume this novel takes place
during the "time passing" montage on p. 18 of Amazing Spider-Man #515
(Feb 2005), "Skin Deep," Part 1. It can't be any earlier, since Mary
Jane's theatrical career was only just starting in the previous storyline
("Sins Past"), and ASM 515 explicitly begins only two days after "Sins Past."
However, it can't be after the "Skin Deep" storyline, since that ends
with the destruction of Aunt May's home and the Parkers moving to Stark Tower.
Luckily the story allows for the passage of time in that montage, which
was no doubt done intentionally to let it catch up with events in the sister
titles. For my purposes, I'm assuming that Spidey joining the Avengers
took place during that p. 18 montage as well, sometime after Drowned
in Thunder. The opening 12-issue story arc of Marvel Knights:
Spider-Man must also follow DIT, since that storyline ends with Jameson
believing his son is Spider-Man. This is a bit confusing since the
majority of that storyline was published before "Skin Deep," but it's the
only way I can see to reconcile the continuities of the various titles.
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I am also assuming that this novel takes place
not long after the previous two Spidey novels from Pocket Star, Down These
Mean Streets by Keith R.A. DeCandido and The Darkest Hours by
Jim Butcher.
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Chapter 1
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Except where otherwise specified, the chapter
titles come from the famous theme song to the 1967 Spider-Man animated
series, with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster and music by Bob Harris. The
theme song is also featured in all three of Sam Raimi's Spidey movies.
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The first time I visited Manhattan after getting
this novel assignment, I discovered it could get incredibly windy even at
street level, with the buildings concentrating the wind. A visit to
the top of the Empire State Building verified that the winds were even stronger
up there. Updrafts along the sides of skyscrapers can reach hundreds
of MPH. Realistically, this would make webslinging virtually impossible.
I realized I'd have to address the issue somehow.
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I'm sure there have been comics where Spidey has
webslung without a working spider-sense; indeed, it happens later in this
very novel. Perhaps the wind was very mild on those occasions. Also,
his "senseless" webslinging in this novel takes place mostly in low, open
regions rather than among the skyscrapers of Manhattan, so the wind would
be less of a factor. (I only wish I could say I planned it that way.)
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The Marvel Encyclopedia volume on Spider-Man
places his apartment at the time of this novel in LoHo, the neighborhood
south of East Houston Street in Manhattan. The F train is the best
way to get there from Midtown, according to my city map.
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I'm implicitly assuming that the play MJ is rehearsing
for in this book is Cats Always Lie, the play featured in the ASM
storylines around the timeframe of this book.
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Many early issues written by Stan Lee assumed
that the spider-sense could be interfered with by heavy rain, smoke clouds,
etc. For example, Mysterio used a smoke cloud to disrupt the spider-sense
in his first appearance, ASM #13 (Jun '64). Mr. Lee's version of
the spider-sense was more physical and less pseudo-psychic than later authors
sometimes interpreted it to be. I've followed Mr. Lee's precedent for
the most part.
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horripilation:
The hair standing on end in response to fear or alarm. In trying to
figure out just what "My spider-sense is tingling" actually means, I decided
the simplest interpretation was the "spine-tingling" or "chills" sensation
of horripilation.
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In the first draft, the heist was at a generic
department store. Just after finishing it, I came to Manhattan for
Comic-Con and took the opportunity to research local color, architecture,
and geography for the revised draft. So I walked around the area of
this sequence looking for a suitable store for the heist. I'd almost
settled for a K-Mart on 34th Street when I arrived at Herald Square and realized
I was across the street from Macy's. Duh....
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Confound it! The
batteries are dead!: An homage to a classic Adam West line from
the 1966 Batman movie.
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ASM #63 (Aug '68) by Stan Lee showed that Spidey's
webbing wouldn't solidify in heavy rain. Later writers ignored this,
so I assumed Peter reformulated the webbing.
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Spidey's capture and protection by Captain Stacy
occurred in ASM #65 (Oct '68) by Stan Lee. Stacy died in ASM #89-90
(Oct-Nov '70), also by Lee.
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Chapter 2
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16
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Barker and his owner Caryn were supporting characters
in the PPSM and SSM comics written by Paul Jenkins, first appearing in
PPSM #30 (Jun '01).
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MJ played Lady Macbeth in The Darkest Hours.
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Most of the "guest" character names in this book
are taken from the cast and crew of the '90s animated Spidey series. An
exception is Jenny Hardesty (p. 25), a character from Straczynski's ASM
run (specifically ASM Vol. 2 #37, Jan '02).
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Peter's last-period general science class and
the details of the faculty lounge are from Down These Mean Streets.
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The underlined phrases in JJJ's blog entries are
meant to represent hyperlinks to other sites and articles. Since underlining
in manuscripts generally represents italics, it took some doing to make
sure the underlines were properly rendered.
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Eddie Barnes is named in honor of Ed Asner and
Christopher Daniel Barnes, the voices of Jameson and Spidey respectively
in the '90s animated series.
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Nicholas Kaproff is named in honor of Nicholas
Hammond, star of the '70s live-action Spidey TV series, and Dana Kaproff,
composer for that series' second season.
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Chapter 3
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"Hey you guys!"
was the opening cry of The Electric Company, the PBS educational show
from the '70s, which had a regular Spider-Man segment. Electro
-- Electric Company -- get it? (Yes, it's a terrible pun, but
the great thing about writing Spidey is that terrible puns are expected.)
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The presence of the NY Public Library is a bit
of an homage to the first Spidey movie, in which Uncle Ben was killed in
front of the building. It's also just here because I really love the
building.
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Spidey battled the stone lions in ASM #311 (Jan
'89) by David Michelinie. It was unclear whether the lions were a
manifestation of the Inferno storyline occurring at the time (an X-Men
crossover event involving demons taking over Manhattan) or one of the illusions
created by Mysterio in the issue.
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Quite by accident, the wardrobe I describe here
for Peter is a good match for the outfit he routinely wore in the '90s
animated series from the second season onward.
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My description of how the web mesh is formed is
inspired by a form of spray-on
clothing that's been developed in the real world. My descriptions
of the web-shooter's operations are based on the various descriptions in
the comics over the years, but with some of my own interpretations added.
Another slightly different explanation of the web-shooters can be
found at MarvelUniverse.com.
The "bungee-cord" effect is my own conjecture to explain how Spidey
can use a webline to raise himself off the ground.
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My placement of the Baxter Building was, again,
based on the Marvel Encyclopedia's Manhattan map, which places it
on 5th Avenue somewhere around 54th or 55th Street. But MarvelUniverse.com
gives its official location as 42nd and Madison, which would be behind
Spidey at this point. Well, maybe one of Reed's experiments moved
it temporarily? (I made a point of referencing the Fantastic Four
here since in Watchers on the Walls I somehow managed to make several
references to the individual team members and "the FF" without ever actually
writing the phrase "Fantastic Four.")
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The "old Fleischer cartoon"
Spidey is thinking of is "The Mechanical
Monsters," the second Superman cartoon produced by the Fleischer
Studios in 1941.
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The older policeman is meant to resemble Stan
Lee. My editor told me to plot my Marvel novels as though they were
movies, so naturally Stan had to have cameos in both of them.
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"Talented amateur"
was the description of Mrs. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) in the title sequence
to the television series The Avengers (no relation to the Marvel superhero
team).
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I hope my description of the interior of the Jewelry
55 building is accurate. On my Manhattan trip, I went to the Diamond
District to check its geography and get some reference photos, but I chickened
out of actually going into the exchange building, for fear that a guy coming
in to take pictures and not buy anything might attract the suspicion of
the guards. I did peek in through the windows, though.
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Van der Waals forces
are what insects, arachnids, and geckos use to cling to walls and ceilings.
Basically they use many microscopic hairs to increase the area of
contact with the molecules of a surface and thus amplify the weak intermolecular
forces. I'm implicitly assuming here that Spidey's sticky fingers
work the way they were shown to in the first movie, with lots of tiny hairs
or setae extending from their tips.
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Electro's trick of cancelling out Spidey's clinging
ability was first seen in SSM Vol. 1 #134 (Jan '88) by Peter David, and
rarely or never seen again. SPOILER: Dillon's intelligence in remembering
this trick now is a clue to what's really happened to him, though at this
point his own personality is in control.
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Spidey saved Dillon's life in the "Light the Night"
arc in Spider-Man Vol. 1 #38-40 (Sep-Nov '93) by J. M. DeMatteis.
Dillon sought revenge for that perceived humiliation in ASM #422-3
(Apr-May '97) by Tom DeFalco.
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One of the buildings in the zone endangered by
the robots' rampage is the Simon & Schuster headquarters where Pocket
Books' offices are located. Luckily my editor's office is on an upper
floor so he was in no peril.
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The LED indicators are a component of the improved
web-shooters that Peter designed in ASM #297 (Feb '88) by David Michelinie.
They haven't been mentioned subsequently as far as I know, but I
see no reason not to assume they're still present.
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Chapter 4
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Isn't it neat how the newspaper article is printed
in a newspaper-like column width, even narrower than the "blog entries"?
That was the doing of Marco, my editor. I really like it.
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Spidey was usually one of the featured heroes
in the Marvel Team-Up series, hence his eclectic history of
team-ups. Meanwhile, this sequence is ironic given that he would
join the New Avengers shortly after this story.
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Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, staged Flash
Thompson's accident in PPSM 44-47, "Return of the Goblin" (Aug-Oct '02),
by Paul Jenkins. The aftermath of this was followed in Jenkins' subsequent
work on PPSM and its successor series SSM. Liz Allan and Jill Stacy
were seen as members of Peter's social circle in those comics, though their
backstories are too complicated to go into here.
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I really should've found some way to make more
use of these characters than this single scene. I fear the lack of
followup keeps their inclusion from working as well as it should.
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"Don't be alarmed, ladies...":
Peter is paraphrasing a line from the Freakazoid! animated series.
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Chapter 5
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The chapter title is from Irving Berlin's Oh!
How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, a classic World War I song.
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Robbie's musings about the need for a publisher
to be tough are based on his thoughts about Jonah from ASM #123 (Aug '73)
by Gerry Conway.
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Jonah confessed his involvement in the Scorpion's
creation and stepped down as Bugle editor in ASM #249-251 (Feb-Apr.
'84) by Roger Stern.
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The Blendo robot really existed,
and was the first collaborative effort of FX artists Jamie Hyneman and Adam
Savage, best known today as the stars of MythBusters on the Discovery
Channel.
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The use of the spider-sense to give Spidey a spatial
awareness of his surroundings was common in the '60s and '70s. See,
for instance, ASM #114 (Nov. '72) by Gerry Conway, in which the sense lets
Spidey figure out how to adjust Hammerhead's rotating office so that its
window aligns with the street, allowing him to escape. This was generally
overlooked in later years, as the concept of the spider-sense as a heightened
physical awareness of Spidey's surroundings gave way to the notion of a
pseudo-psychic power specifically attuned to "danger" in any form. In
this book I've tried to reconcile those.
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The Yellow Kid was the first newspaper comic strip,
and the dirty tactics waged between newspaper syndicates in their attempts
to acquire this profitable strip gave birth to the term "yellow journalism,"
which came to mean disreputable, sensationalist, or false reporting in the
name of boosting newspaper sales (essentially what's now known as tabloid
journalism).
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Chapter 6
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For once, the chapter title isn't a song lyric,
just a play on Sense and Sensibility.
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While this book offers a fairly scientific explanation
for the spider-sense, it doesn't quite work. Only some species of
spider have the kind of motion sensitivity I describe, and it's because
of the tiny hairs that cover their body. I suppose it's possible that
Peter is covered all over with fine sensory hairs, but I didn't want to suggest
that. Besides, such a system wouldn't work with that all-concealing
Spidey suit in the way. (And his stickiness shouldn't work through
gloves and boots, unless the setae are proportionately very long.)
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For that matter, the spider strength wouldn't
scale up either, because it's a function of the spider's anatomy and structural
design. A human body couldn't be made much stronger without completely
redesigning its anatomy. Indeed, spiders aren't really known for
being exceptionally strong in proportion to their size anyway.
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May's stint as Doc Ock's housekeeper, in which
she smashed a vase over Spidey's head, was seen in ASM #114-115 (Nov-Dec
'72) by Gerry Conway.
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MJ's pillow attack setting off Peter's spider-sense
was seen in "These Great Powers," a backup story in Spider-Man Vol.
1 #26 (Sep '92) by Tom DeFalco. There's really no good way to reconcile
that with the way the spider-sense usually works.
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JJJ's creation of the Scorpion was in ASM #25
(Jun '65, Lee); specifically, on p. 8 he lured Spidey into a trap and didn't
set off the spider-sense. (Something very similar happened in ASM
Annual #10 with Jameson's creation of the Human Fly.) JJJ confronting
Peter with the photos proving his identity was in ASM #169 (Jun '77, Len
Wein). Chameleon-as-JJJ did set off the spider-sense in Web of
Spider-Man #51 (Jun '89, Conway). There may be instances where
JJJ did set off the spider-sense, but not as far as I could find in the
comics I've read.
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The sprawling "Clone Saga" is one of the most
reviled storylines of the Spidey comics, considered to have gone on way
too long and gotten far too complicated. In-universe, it was a very
traumatic period in Peter's life.
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The last time the Chameleon was featured prior
to the timeframe of this novel, he was in an asylum, though my sources don't
specify which one (it was a story I wasn't able to track down and read).
I've assumed it was the Ravencroft asylum featured in the 1990s comics
and animated series.
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I'm aware the real prison in the East River is
Rikers Island, but "Ryker's" is the Marvel-Universe spelling. (And
of course in Futurama's 31st century we have "Commander Riker's Island.")
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Jameson took a bat to Smythe in ASM Vol. 2 #21
(Sep '00) by Howard Mackie. The character has not returned in the comics
since then.
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The Robot Master's "assimilation" took place in
PPSM #27-28 (Mar-Apr '01) by Paul Jenkins. The character has not
returned in the comics since then. Edwin Hills is from PPSM 53-55
(Apr-Jun '03) by Zeb Wells.
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The "Triple-X business" involving Doc Ock is from
Down These Mean Streets. Peter told off Doctor Doom
in ASM Vol. 2 #50 (Apr '03) by Straczynski.
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121
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Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth) was the wife (later
ex-wife) of Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier.
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Chapter 7
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128
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Bud Collyer was the voice of Superman in the radio
and animated series of the 1940s-60s. Naturally, on radio he had to
give Clark and Superman very distinct voices so listeners could tell them
apart.
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Peter faked photos showing that Spidey was Electro
in ASM #9 (Feb '64, Lee), the villain's first appearance.
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See the Cablebot
Chase page for an illustration of Spidey's route across Midtown as he
battles the cablebots.
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The cablebots are inspired by the SpiderCam, a
rig developed by the makers of Spider-Man 2 to film that movie's
swooping aerial shots. The remote-controlled camera reels itself along
cables rigged to allow it to move smoothly and rapidly in three dimensions.
The rig has been used in other films including Mission: Impossible
3.
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They evolved, they rebelled...:
Quoting the opening sequence of the modern Battlestar Galactica, in
reference to the robotic Cylons.
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By coincidence, the 425 Fifth Avenue building and
others surrounding it are visible in the background of some of the climactic
shots from the movie Spider-Man 3.
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Chapter 8
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Jonah is exaggerating when he says there were warrants
out for Spidey's arrest on the majority of occasions when he sent out Spider-Slayers
or other robots to hunt him down. I believe it was on two occasions
at most: in ASM #58 (Mar '68, Lee), shortly after a brainwashed Spidey had
joined Doctor Octopus on a crime spree, and in ASM #167 (Apr '77, Wein),
during the time when Spidey was wanted for questioning in the deaths of George
and Gwen Stacy. There were no warrants out for Spidey in Jameson's other
two robotic spider-hunts, in ASM #25 (Jun '65, Lee) and #105 (Feb '72, Lee).
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"your third play in two
months": After The Z-Axis in Down These Mean Streets
and Macbeth in The Darkest Hours.
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As far as I know, it's never been definitively
established what the J. stands for in J. Jonah Jameson, though "John" is
considered the most likely candidate.
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Jameson's recollections of Spidey's early career,
and particularly his concern that he may have unwittingly helped drive Spider-Man
to vigilantism, are based on "How I Created Spider-Man!" by David Michelinie,
a backup story in ASM #365 (Aug. 1992), the 30th-anniversary issue of the
title. Michelinie's story was invaluable to me in figuring out what
made Jameson tick.
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Jameson's abusive father was established in Spider-Man's
Tangled Web #20 (Jan '03, Zeb Wells).
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Jameson revealed his jealousy of Spider-Man's heroism
in a soliloquy in ASM #10 (Mar '64, Lee). Later writers portrayed JJJ
in a more positive, philanthropic light, changing him from Lee's Scroogelike
scoundrel into a basically noble figure who had one huge blind spot where
Spidey was concerned. In the paragraphs that follow, I attempt to reconcile
these.
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Chapter 9
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168
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The chapter title is from the theme song to the
Spidey segments on The Electric Company, composed by Gary William
Friedman.
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"Jigsaw Jameson" is my homage to "Guilty," a Jameson-centric
episode of the 1990s animated series, written by John Semper, Larry Brody,
and Meg McLaughlin. In that episode, Jameson hit the streets to clear
Robbie Robertson of a crime, claiming that "Jigsaw" had been his nickname
in his old reporting days. The nickname was never referenced in the
comics as far as I know, which is why nobody recognizes it here.
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The android impostors of Peter's parents appeared
in ASM #363-388 (Jun '92-Apr '94, Michelinie), although their true nature
wasn't revealed until the end of the storyline.
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Chapter 10
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May solved the Restwell Nursing Home caper in a
Mike W. Barr-written backup story in ASM #220 (Sep '81).
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The Tinkerer's brief supervillain career and his
henchbot Toy were featured in ASM #160 (Sep '76, Wein), ASM #183 (Aug '78,
Marv Wolfman), and SSM Vol. 1 #53 (Apr. '81, Bill Mantlo).
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There are real-life prototypes for robots that
consume meat for energy, although they use microbes rather than furnaces
to do the digesting. See for example http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/27/explorers.ecobot/index.html
and http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/07/21/carnivorous.robot.reut/index.html.
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Yes, the marshal from Gunsmoke was Matt
Dillon, not Max, but it's not the first time the similarity has been noted
in the Spideyverse.
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Chapter 11
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The chapter title is an allusion to the title of
a trade paperback collection of PPSM #51-57 (Feb-Aug '03, Zeb Wells), but
it's also a reference to the fact that Spidey is fighting without his spider-sense
in this chapter.
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Gargantua is a giant from a series of satirical
16th-century novels by the French author Rabelais, collectively known as
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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My characterization of Electro here is more in
keeping with his appearances in recent years than with his early appearances,
in which he spoke in a much more formal and stilted manner, like most supervillains
of the day. His more lowbrow speech and personality are more in keeping
with an electrical lineman turned petty hood, and create a greater contrast
with... well, you'll see in a few pages.
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I modelled my description of the location and layout
of Ryker's Island on the real Rikers Island, though I don't know if they
really correspond that closely. Come to think of it, I believe at least one
Spidey comic shows Ryker's to have at least one rather high cliff overlooking
the river, though that may have been a different prison.
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There was actually a Stan Lee-written ASM issue
that referred to Spidey's "awesome power of chest expansion." No kidding.
(From the look of things, the Black Cat apparently has the same power...
at least when Terry Dodson is drawing her.)
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Chapter 12
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226
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The chapter title is an homage to the blanket title
of the fourth season of the '90s animated Spidey series, though that was
actually "Partners in Dangers" (which I felt was a bit too awkward).
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MJ is overreacting here; in fact, the New York state law
banning the use of cell phones while driving makes an exception for hands-free
devices. (Although it really shouldn't; the danger comes from the
mental distraction of talking while driving, not just from having a hand
occupied.) Although she is in violation of the law once she actually
answers the phone a paragraph later.
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In recent years, the comics have treated Peter's
spider-sense as a well-kept secret; for instance, in the recent Civil War
arc, Spidey was surprised that Iron Man had deduced the existence of the
ability. But go back to the early Stan Lee issues, and it was an open
secret well-known to his foes. Indeed, within the first five issues
of ASM, both the Chameleon and Doctor Doom independently deduced the existence
of the spider-sense and invented ways to tap into it to send messages to
Spider-Man. In subsequent years, Spidey often indulged in the then-common
superhero habit of narrating how their abilities worked while they used them.
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Yep, Spidey is doing a riff on the classic Pinky
and the Brain "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" routine. The
other punchline I considered was "I think so, Jonah. But how do we
convince Galactus that planets are high in carbs?"
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Chapter 13
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239
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This is the only chapter title that isn't a Spidey
ref of any kind, just a play on "Ghost
in the Machine."
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On my trip to the 2006 New York Comic-Con, while
this novel was in development, the Greyhound bus passed through the New Jersey
Meadowlands and I was quite struck by its flat, open, sparse geography.
I realized that it would be a horrible place for webslinging and thus
an ideal place for a villain's lair in this novel. As it turned out,
the location proved to have an additional benefit for this story (see p.
245).
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Chlorite infiltration:
A nod to my X-Men novel.
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Perhaps the most memorable underwater base Spidey
had to deal with was the base of the "Master Planner" (Doc Ock) in ASM #31-33
(Dec '65-Feb '66, Lee), the classic "If This Be My Destiny...!" storyline.
Watch for another allusion to this story in the next chapter.
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For more on self-replicating robots and the technologies
they might employ, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine.
Auxons also figure in my novelette "Among the Wild Cybers of Cybele."
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"Is that Robot J. Master?":
This time Spidey is borrowing a gag from a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon.
"Is that Arch J. Fiend?"
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The bald alien woman and the guy from Seventh
Heaven are Persis Khambatta as Ilia and Stephen Collins as Decker in
Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Thanks to the wonders of the ever-shifting
Marvel timeframe, Peter Parker and friends attended the 1979 premiere of
that movie in ASM #203 (Apr '80), in a story written by Marv Wolfman, also
the editor of Marvel's Star Trek comics at the time. The Spidey
of this novel, however, would not have been born yet in 1979.
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Yep, I actually came up with an excuse for a scene
of the villain explaining his plot to the hero in excruciating detail.
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I originally intended the Tinkerer to be a red herring,
but once I got to this scene, I realized that Robey Jr. would've needed
an accomplice on the outside.
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Chapter 14
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262
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The title is a line from the Electric Company
theme by Joe Raposo.
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264
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Morlun was the villain in the first J. Michael Straczynski
arc in ASM V. 2 #30-35 (Jun-Nov '01). The Darkest Hours was
a direct sequel to that arc.
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MJ's plane was blown up in ASM V. 2 #13 (Jan '00,
Howard Mackie), though it was later revealed that it had been done to hide
her abduction. The Red Skull was revealed as the killer of Peter's
parents in ASM Annual 5 (1968, Lee). Kraven buried Spidey alive in
"Kraven's Last Hunt" by J. M. DeMatteis, a crossover spanning all the Spidey
titles in Oct-Nov '87. The events in Doc Ock's flooding base are from
"If This Be My Destiny...!" (see p. 242 note).
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Electro's backstory and family life were revealed
in ASM #422 (Apr '97, Tom De Falco).
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