On with the show. Before we delve into our next chapter of the Amazing Spider-Man, let's first go over a quick checklist of the content we have recorded as a class for our custom graphic novel. So far we have establish Peter Parker as,
PETER PARKER
A- Parents murdered by The Chameleon (Spy)
B- Peter's father working on super soldier serum
C- Peter orphaned and runs away from home
D- Travels off to Africa
E- Mentored and trained by Kraven the Hunter
F- Inherits trust fund from deceased parents
G- Becomes photographer for NOW Magazine
H- Returns to NYC after 7 years abroad
I - Moves in with his widowed Uncle Ben Parker
J - Wears the black suit and web shooters
So we have the idea that Peter's father was updating the super soldier serum from the 1940s and tests out his serum on several subjects, one of which will be a spider. Of course the spider will get loose and bite Peter when he is at his father's lab, resulting in his fateful rise to power.
The class likes the idea of Peter developing the web shooters while he is off in Africa, the visual of Peter swinging through the jungles of the Dark Continent like Tarzan is too good not to give to an artist. With our story starting to come together we open the floor to discussing possible love interests for our newly refined and handsome Peter Parker.
With Peter being a photographer, the obvious choice would be to go with model Mary Jane Watson, the sultry redhead who eventually becomes Peter's wife in the comics. But since this is our own story, I have played with the idea of having Jameson's secretary Betty Brant be the love interest in our first installment of the Arach-Knight.
We have toyed with the idea of having Mary Jane make a cameo in our big action sequence where Spider-Man is first introduced to the crowd in New York City. We have linked model Mary Jane with the QB of a New York football team.........Flash Thompson. Now that we have added to our legend its time to delve into today's lesson. We move into The Amazing Spider-Man 5, where our titular hero does battle with Marvel Comics version of Darth Vader.......................DR DOOM
At the time of its publication, we saw Italy debut the Lamborghini,
Also President John F Kennedy's favorite spy novel is turned into a movie when the 2nd James Bond film, From Russia With Love, is released.
The story opens up with J Jonah Jameson taking up TV time to put a $1,000 bounty on Spider-Man's identity. While Peter watches on at the bowling alley with his classmates, Dr Doom is holed up in a secret hideout in the city while on the run from The Fantastic Four. Frustrated at the super group's constant thwarting of his plans, Dr Doom decides he will either recruit Spider-Man to join forces with him, or kill him for not obeying.
Dr Doom uses a transmitter to lock onto Peter's spider sense. Once Spider-Man arrives at Doom's HQ, the doctor begins laying on the charm, offering Spider-Man power and a place at his side in order to destroy the Fantastic Four, who he claims shunned him while they bask in the limelight of their fame and celebrity. Appealing to Spider-Man's current status as an outcast, Doom fully expects Peter to sign up as his new sidekick. When Spider-Man turns down Doom's offer, the brawl is on,
Mixing booby traps, robot body doubles and guns coming out of his pointer finger, Spider-Man barely escapes the brawl with his hide intact. Regrouping to continue the fight another day, Spider-Man crash lands out of Doom's hideout and into the water below. Before Spider-Man can get his bearings, Dr Doom has already blown up his hideout and moved on to a new one.
Meanwhile back in high school, Flash Thompson and his classmates put together a makeshift Spider-Man costume in order to play a prank on Peter, a prank which ultimately goes all wrong for the red headed QB
Of course once he spots Spider-Man on the street, Dr Doom douses Flash with a little sleeping gas and decides to use his unconscious prize as a hostage to trap The Fantastic Four. Dr Doom then takes Flash back to his hideout at.........................................Universal Studios Islands of Adventure
Just making sure you're still paying attention, Doom drags Flash back to his lair thinking its the real Spider-Man and once Peter finds out, he actually considers leaving Flash to rot and possibly die at Doom's hands. After enjoying the fantasy for a few moments, Peter knows even he can't let Flash perish, so he gets into gear and scours the city until he tracks Doom to an abandoned factory, where the Doc has set up traps galore.
What follows next is just an all out ten page brawl as Spider-Man and Dr Doom kick the ever loving crap out of one another, using traps with falling ice, grapefruit sized web balls, iron globes whirling around a magnetic core, heat rays that torch the entire floor, and of course multiple robot body doubles.
After blinding Spider-Man with some fancy fireworks, Dr Doom is about to go in for the kill when he spots The Fantasti-Car in the distance. Doom ducks out in time and Spider-Man catches his breath before exiting himself, leaving the Fantastic Four to rescue Flash and put a huge scare into him for his carelessness.
Flash of course entertains his classmates with a different version of the story, one in which he whipped Doom.
In the end, not only do we start to see the buds of a developing relationship between Peter Parker and Betty Brant, but the announcement at the end of this issue celebrates the fact that the overwhelming response of fans and sales figures resulted in The Amazing Spider-Man being promoted to a monthly comic. Once again another fine installment of Comics in the Classroom.
Random shot of the lovely MAJESTY, the main villainess in The Chronicles of FARO #1
Vocab Word Web
1- Facsimile
2- Accursed
3- Wrath
4- Sensory
5- Impetuous
6- Limelight
7- Brazen
8- Insipid
9- Antagonist
10- Earnest
11- Skinflint
12- Blustering
13- Devious
14- Emanations
15- Gallantry
16- Irrevocably
17- Claustrophobia
18- Contrary
19- Disintegrate
20- Cavalry
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