Spider-man Trivia Part 2

The Women of Peter Parker/Spider-man's Life

Peter's first love was Gwen Stacy.  When Gwen died in the hands of the Green Goblin, Mary Jane Watson filled the void.  These two are the more famous women in Peter Parker's life.  But  Peter also dated other ladies like Betty Brant who worked as J. Jonah Jameson's secretary.  Their relationship was cut short due to Betty's jealousy over Peter's high school classmate Liz Allan (Liz became Mrs. Harry Osborn).  And then there's Carlie Cooper who became Peter's girlfriend after Mary Jane.

Carlie Cooper works as a crime lab expert
for the New York Police Department.

However, as Spider-man, he also got involved with rather some very interesting ladies.

The Black Cat

Burglar.  She's got the power to hex bad luck on anyone who thinks her harm.  She was Spidey's rebound girl when MJ turned down his first proposal for marriage.  Unfortunately, Black Cat does not like how Spidey's alter ego lives his life and the relationship did not prosper.

Silver Sable

Spider-man worked with Silver Sable in a couple of jobs and it's quite obvious that Silver Sable is enamored with the Wall Crawler.  Is the feeling mutual?  I think the Spider-man writers need to finally decide on that.  Right now, given a kiss or two from Sable ain't not such a bad deal for Spider-man.

Ms. Marvel

Carol Danvers aka Ms. Marvel worked together in the New Avengers.  She openly declared her attraction to Spider-man.  Spidey you're such a chick magnet!

Spider-man fought along side with the most heroes in the world
Peter Parker's did not live a financially stable life.  He worked freelance as a photographer for the Daily Bugle's but its not enough to live on.  When Peter and Mary Jane got married they had to shack up with Aunt May due to financial limitations.  This prompted Spider-man to ply his services to the Avengers and get financial stipend.  Unfortunately, he was deemed "disruptive" to the group dynamics and was denied membership though his services would be called upon time and again.

Spider-man also worked along side The Fantastic Four and became a member when the group became the Future Foundation after The Human Torch's death.

An inventor---officially that is!
Peter Parker have always been a man of science.  Unfortunately, being Spider-man got him too pre-occupied fighting bad guys that he almost did not finish college.  But now he is a creative engineer at the Horizon Lab which creates the most sophisticated technologies in the Marvel Universe.  This is where Peter creates Spider-man's special suits aside from other stuff on the side.

Spider-man Trivia

The recent Spider-man revived my childhood fascination with the Wall Crawler and prompted me to continue reading the comic book story where I last left off in my youth.  In order to remember where I actually left off I needed to review from the beginning and hope that my aging memory triggers a semblance of familiarity.  Fun process I must say!

Apparently, aside from the Amazing Spider-man series that I was following (mainstream continuity) there is an alternate comic book universe---another "dimension"---an Ultimate Universe where comic book creators and editors explored other comic book realities.  Naturally, there is the Ultimate Spider-man series that explore another story line to the already colorful life of Spider-man.  But I'm not going to go ahead of myself and just stick to the mainstream story for now.

Costumes

I only knew of two costumes that Spidey wore---the original red and blue and then the alien suit which he wore during the Secret Wars series.  The former, which is actually a living organism, almost took over Spider-man in its symbiotic need to merge with its host.  Spidey, with the help of Reed Richards and The Human Torch of the Fantastic Four was able to take off the symbiote costume and and held it in captivity in their headquarters.  The costume would later escape and plague the life of Spider-man.  It would later merge with Spider-man's critic Eddie Brock and create the villain Venom.  Spider-man would wear another black suit similar to the symbiote but was sewn for him by the Black Cat.

However, Spider-man will get to wear other costumes with his various collaboration with other heroes (special mention to Tony Stark aka Iron-man and Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic).  Of course, being an inventor and scientist himself, Peter Parker also created variations to his costume.  

Iron Spider-man.  Created by Tony Stark during
Spider-man's employment leading to the Civil
Wars story arc.

The Unstable Molecule Costume.
Created by Reed Richards for Spider-man's use
as a member of the Future Foundation.

Spider-Armor Mark 1.  Created by Peter Parker
when New York wasattacked by villains using high caliber
rifles.  Made out of pseudo-metallic compound
invented by Peter at Empire State University.
The suit slowed him down but it rendered him
impervious to bullets.

Spider-Armor Mark II.  Peter Parker's enhanced
version of the Spider-armor.  This suit can
withstand a direct hit from a grenade launcher.

Anti-Sinister Six Suit.  Another Peter Parker invention designed
to counteract the different capabilities of the Sinister Six.

The Stealth Suit.  Created to combat
the Hobgoblin's sonic scream, the suit wraps
sound and light around it making it invisible
in the process.  The suit would later be worn
by Peter's clone Kaine.

(to be continued...http://nonomaca.blogspot.com/2012/07/spider-man-trivia-part-2.html )