Dates
- Cover date
- February 1978
- On sale
- November 22, 1977
- Pages
- 52
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- What If Someone Else Had Become -- the Amazing Spider-Man · 33 pages
What would have happened if someone else had gotten spider powers instead of Peter Parker? Flash Thompson would have named himself Captain Spider and then died in a battle against the Vulture. Betty Brant would have become Spider-Girl, but then retired after failing to stop the thief who murdered Peter's uncle Ben. John Jameson, goaded on by his father, would have become Spider Jameson and then sacrificed his life to save the life of a fellow astronaut. In all these alternate realities, Peter Parker still becomes Spider-Man in the end, as this is his true destiny.
Publisher’s description
What if Flash Thompson had been bitten by the radioactive spider? Flash Thompson as…Spider-Man! But without the scientific know-how of Peter Parker, will Thompson reach his full potential as the wall-crawler? The Watcher presents three alternative realities where in each one of them someone else received the super powers given by the bite of the radioactive spider that would transform Peter Parker in Spider Man. WHAT IF #7 WHAT IF SOMEONE ELSE WAS BITTEN BY THE RADIOACTIVE SPIDER Turning point : Flash Thompson pushes Peter out of the way to show off for his girlfriends, and the spider lands on him. Betty Brant is covering the science exhibit for the bugle and James Jameson is at the Science exhibit and takes Peter Parkers place as the victim of the radio active spider.
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Reprinted in
Spider-Man Winter Special (1979), What If? Classic (2004), The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (2018), What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus (2021)