SPIDER-MAN: DROWNED IN THUNDER
CABLEBOT CHASE

This illustration depicts Spider-Man’s route through the city in his battle with the cablebots in Chapter 7.  The chase begins at the far right of the image (please scroll right to see the rest).  Spider-Man’s route is in red (dashed when hidden behind a building).  Certain of Spider-Man’s weblines and nets are depicted in red.  Certain key cablebot positions are denoted in blue.  (Photo montage by the author, taken from the Empire State Building observation deck in February 2006.)



KEY:
1: The Daily Bugle building is at the corner of Thirty-ninth and Second.  The red skyscraper here (Highpoint Condominiums) is at the same intersection.  Assume the Bugle building is just beyond the edge of the photo.
2: The Burroughs Building.  Spidey’s webline to its corner is shown.
3: 600 Third Avenue.  Site of first cablebot encounter (a), which begins on the side of the building facing away from the viewer.
4: Dryden East Apartments.  The websling where Spidey lands after his long fall (shown in red) stretches between the Dryden East building to the south and Murray Hill East Suites to the north.
5: The Court hotel at Thirty-ninth and Lexington.
6: 360 Lexington (not mentioned in text), “climbed stepwise” by Spidey to head northeast.
7: Mobil Building. Site of second cablebot attack.
8: Chrysler Building, to which the two cablebots attach (b, c) to block Spidey’s northward route.
9: Top of Chanin Building (sticking out behind the big black 101 Park Avenue building).
10: Lefcourt Colonial Building (not mentioned in text), Spidey’s anchor point when he veers south on Madison.  Note that this intersection is where the Baxter Building is officially located.
11: 425 Fifth Avenue, where Spidey makes his stand (on the right-hand face, hidden from view).
12: 260 Madison Avenue.  Used by first cablebot (d) as anchor point.
13: Mercantile Building.  Used by cablebots as anchor point.
14: Water towers where first cablebot is destroyed.  Manhattan’s bedrock limits water pressure, requiring all buildings above 6 stories to have rooftop water towers.
15: Fifth Avenue Tower, where final confrontation occurs (mostly hidden from view by 425 Fifth).  Note web-netting on side of building.

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