What If?
#7
(February 1978)
Marvel,
1977 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1977-11-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860268602
- Editing
- Roy Thomas
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (2021) -
in Spider-Man Winter Special (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #1979 (1979), #1979 (1979), #1979 (1979)
-
What If Someone Else Besides Spider-Man Had Been Bitten By the Radioactive Spider?
Spider-Man / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gil Kane (signed as K)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as S)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Betty Brant; Colonel John Jameson; Flash Thompson; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
- Reprints
What If Someone Else Had Become -- the Amazing Spider-Man
Spider-Man / comic story / 33 pages
- Script
- Don Glut; Roy Thomas (concept)
- Pencils
- Rick Hoberg
- Inks
- Sam Grainger
- Colors
- George Roussos
- Letters
- Rick Parker
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am the Watcher... one of the weariless race of beings...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Spider [Flash Thompson] (death); the Chameleon; Crusher Hogan (wrestler, death); J. Jonah Jameson; Spider-Girl [Betty Brant]; Spider Jameson [Colonel John Jameson] (death); Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; the Tinkerer; the Vulture; the Watcher; Sam; Joe
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Spider-Man Collection (Panini, 2004 series) #38 [Italy] -
in Die Spinne Comic - Album (Condor, 1979 series) #14 -
in Edderkoppen Superseriealbum (Atlantic Forlag, 1979 series) #[8] (1982) [minus 2 pages] -
in Spindelmannen presentalbum (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1980 series) #[1982] [8] (1982) -
in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #37 (10 février 1983) [Pages 1-16], #38 (10 mars 1983) [Pages 17-33] - in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2005)
- in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
[no title indexed]
Why Not? / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Editorial and suggestions for future stories from readers.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
What If Someone Else Besides Spider-Man Had Been Bitten By the Radioactive Spider?
Spider-Man -
1.
What If Someone Else Had Become -- the Amazing Spider-Man
Spider-Man -
2.
The Ding-A-Ling Family
Thor; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
[no title indexed]
Why Not?
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Max Capp
- Nick Caputo
- Ruben Cortes
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- David Haglund
- Ralf Haring
- R. S. Martin
- Darrel McCann
- Richard Rider
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Steven Tice
- Mike Verhart
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