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Now that you mention it, I think you’re right, it was Kang not Doom. Memory isn’t what it used to be. I could have looked it up, I suppose, but that feels like cheating. Avengers started after Amazing, I believe, so that fake Spider-Man story probably happened after the Mysterio story.
@AC I know Kang did that to the Avengers (the robot Spidey thing). Maybe that’s what you are referring to?
Didn’t Dr. Doom use a Spider-Man robot to fool people too somewhere in the 60’s? Might not have been an Amazing issue, I’m thinking it is a guest appearance in another comic. Might have been after the first appearance of Mysterio though.
I’m not talking about this panel/issue #13 – I’m talking about the issue where Electro first appears. In that issue Jonah sees/hears about someone climbing the walls and instantly thinks that Electro must be Spider-Man because “no one but Spider-Man could climb walls like that”.
This panel is from ASM #13, the first appearance of Mysterio.
The first appearance of Electro is in ASM #9, which ends with him defeated by Spider-man and supposedly caught by the police (we don’t see it, but Peter says he hears them approaching when Electro is out cold).
So we could assume that in this panel from ASM #13 Peter knows Dillon is still in prison and that’s why he doesn’t consider that option.
Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see where’s the problem.
“You’re right on Electro doing something like that, but it may also be that Peter knew he was still in prison at the time”
This was in Electro’s first appearance, so he wouldn’t be in prison then.
@hornacek: Sorry, your last comment didn’t appear until I wrote mine.
You’re right on Electro doing something like that, but it may also be that Peter knew he was still in prison at the time; add the fact that Mysterio replicated his web too and it’s not that much of a stretch.
@hornacek: To add to what Adam said, impersonating him and faking his powers are two different things. The former can be done to an extent by just wearing his costume, like Flash did.
It feels like there’s more than that, but I can’t think of them of the top of my head. I have a memory of listening to ASM Classics podcast discussing this panel and Josh going off about all of the previous times someone else had impersonated Spidey and/or duplicated his powers, and how Peter jumping to the conclusion that it must have been him while he was asleep was bonkers.
Didn’t Jameson claim that Electro was Spider-Man because he used his electricity-powers to climb the walls of a building, and that only Spider-Man could do that? Not an actual impersonation, but someone else doing something that “only Spider-Man can do”.
@hornacek: I can only think of Chameleon and Flash doing it prior to this issue.
Hadn’t Spidey already been impersonated in public at least 3 (?) times by villains at this point? This always seemed like a huge leap for him – it *must* be him doing this in his sleep because no one else could ever duplicate/fake his powers!