"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
As a reader, I decide they did, same thing for Gwen at the onset of that decade.
yipes. is it that deep as to who was Peter's "first"?
Growing up, I thought that was Betty. She seemed older and independent, but later on, it was established she was also a teen (!?).
in the 1990s retcon Spider-Man adventures mostly written by Kurt Busiek, Betty was revealed as having dropped out of high school at some point (her older brother Mark was the Molten Man/a racketeer), then got the job at the Bugle.
Evolving creative sensibilities made it 'creepy' that Betty would flirt/date a high schooler. and of course during the original publishing era of the strips, it wasn't out of bounds for somebody high school age to be working in certain "adult" environments, diploma or not.
Somehow, I don't see how anyone's going to get first crack at a job starting at the top (publisher and editor of an important NY newspaper). I would imagine that there's a number of positions for a secretary that she would have to go trough before getting there.
Working on the assumption that readers in the sixties would assume that the female love interest would be in the peer group of the male protagonist...
It's possible that she had contacts through family or through teachers or something like that. More importantly, I would suppose that, since women often retired to become full-time homemakers back in the sixties, it must have been much easier for a young woman to get a job in a traditionally female area.
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I don't see anyone mentioning the Clone Saga that seemed to imply Ben and Betty could be a thing.. all part of the effort to remake classic Spider-Man..
I don't remember what issue but it was during the Scarlet Spider era, before Peter accepted Ben was still alive.
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
Last edited by Daibhidh; 02-11-2024 at 09:22 AM.
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