[net.comics] Spider-Man #257

ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi) (06/21/84)

From: Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi>
I kept hearing that this issue was going to have a big revelation from
Mary Jane Watson. I wondered what it could be. I didn't think she
was going to say she was getting married  (it couldn't be to anyone 
we know from the sereis). I tought it might be that she was pregnant,
but it's been a long time since she and Peter have been romantically
involved. Then I thought, well she did leave town rather suddenly
and not come back for several years (our time), so maybe she WAS
pregnant by Peter, and had t5he baby out of town, since
she didn't want to get married.

What I didn't expect was her admitting she had known Peter's secret
identity "for years". This is despite reading a sequence the other
day in the Spider-Man newspaper strip where she told Peter she 
thought he was Spidey (it turned out to be a joke).
So, the question is, when did she find out?
Any guesses?

Mike Ciaraldi
ciaraldi@rochester

moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer) (06/25/84)

Christ Jesus!  Mary Jane has known Peter's identity for years?!  Who's
writing this, anyway -- Stan the Man?

This is what I get for not reading the title for 2 years....

     "Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a wagon...."

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer

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wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (06/27/84)

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If Mary Jane has known about Peter for years, why is it that in the
"Dreamers" issue she daydreams positively about the glamorous
Spider-Man and totally rejects Pete?

I can't buy that she she differentiates between the two so much that
even in her idle daydreams the fact of their being the same person
gets totally ignored.

Looks like this one got pulled out of the hat, folks.
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				--Bill Buie