"I know they are the words that define a hero......'That with great power, there must also come great responsibility.' And the man who told them to my departed uncle who told them to me.....my father."
— Peter Parker
| Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special 1 | |
| |
| Comic | |
| Release Date | July 2002 |
| Writer | Brian Michael Bendis |
| Artist | Alex Maleev, Dan Brereton, John Romita Sr., Al Milgrom, Frank Cho, Jim Mahfood, Scott Morse, Craig Thompson, Michael Avon Oeming, Jason Pearson, Sean Phillips, Mark Bagley, Rodney Ramos, Bill Sienkiewicz, Craig Russell, Jacen Burrows, Walden Wong, Leonard Kirk, Terry Pallot, Dave Gibbons, Michael Gaydos, James Kochalka, David Mack, Brett Weldele, Ashley Wood |
Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special 1 is a special issue of Ultimate Spider-Man, serving as a narrative wrap to the completed run of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up.
Summary[]
Peter Parker tells Mary Jane Watson of an encounter he had one night. He saw Eric Brooks chasing after a man, and saved the man by covering him in webbing. Running after the man, the man turned and attacked him with fanged teeth, but Brooks came back, and staked the man through the heart causing him to explode. He viciously threatened Peter before going away, and the story ends. Mary Jane is disturbed that vampires are real, and Peter tells her of another incident. He saw Elektra Natchios getting ready to snipe a man from a rooftop, but Peter intervened. She almost killed him and ran off, and Peter shows Mary Jane that her target was a genocidal dictator, and he is wondering if he is over his head. At Matthew Murdock's law firm, Karen Page reports that Spider-Man is swinging by outside. After three hours, Murdoch meets him on the roof and Peter confesses that he is asking for advice. Learning Peter's only sixteen, Murdoch tells him that he is way over his head. There is a flashback to Peter's English teacher assigning a project to come and give a presentation on a hero. Peter sees the Ultimates' launch party televised at night in New York, and feels that he needs more experience. At the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four go about daily life when they have a security breach, and Peter is caught scaling the Baxter Building. Richards easily looks him up on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s file, and Peter sheepishly reveals that he was going to ask to join the Fantastic Four. They turn him down because the Fantastic Four are a family unit, and broke, but Richards mentions he admired Peter's father. Johnny follows Peter outside and tells him that Peter chose to be a hero rather than a villain, and he should go with that. On the day of the hero presentation with a substitute, Kenny McFarlane goes as Frank Castle, and Peter gives his speech about his father. Peter says that the true hero to him was his father, who said that great power comes with great responsibility, no matter what kind of hero you are.
Characters[]
- Peter Parker
- Eric Brooks
- Mary Jane Watson
- Elektra Natchios
- Matthew Murdock
- Karen Page
- Kenny McFarlane
- Frederick Thompson
- Liz Allen
- Anthony Stark
- Steve Rogers
- Susan Storm
- Reed Richards
- Johnny Storm
- Ben Grimm
- Gwen Stacy
- Henry Pym
- Janet van Dyne
- Bruce Banner
- Thor
- Clint Barton
- Nick Fury
- Stephen Strange
- Edwin Jarvis
- Natalia Romanova
- James Howlett
- Jean Gray
- Scott Summers
- Ororo Munroe
- Henry McCoy
- Piotr Rasputin
- Bobby Drake
- Frank Castle
Trivia[]
- A section of Ultimate Spider-Man 14: Doctor Octopus is reprinted here with a different artist instead, showing it as a flashback instead.
| Previous Issue | Current Issue | Next Issue |
|---|---|---|
| The Ultimates 3: 21st Century Boy | Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special 1 | Ultimate X-Men 15: It Doesn't Have to be This Way |