J. Jonah Jameson? The Sensational Spider-Mayor?! Coming up with too many quips! Brain overloading!
Shut up!
Aw, c'mon! When will I ever get the chance to--
Not another word!
How 'bout a quick time out? I'll get a spare costume. Cut out a hole for a moustache--
I mean it!
"Jolly Jonah," my butt. You're no fun at all.
Appearing in "Spider-Island, Part Four: Spiders, Spiders Everywhere"
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Future Foundation
- Horizon Labs
- Mayor J.J. Jameson
- Glory Grant
- Mary Jane Watson
- U.S. Army
- Anti-Venom (Eddie Brock)
- Madame Web (Julia Carpenter)
Antagonists:
- Tarantula (Kaine Parker)
- Miles Warren Clones
- ⏴ Jackal ("Miles Warren") ⏵
- The Queen (Adriana Soria) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Daily Bugle
- Robbie Robertson
- ⏴ Randy Robertson
- Norah Winters (Mentioned)
- ⏴ New Avengers
- Avengers
- NYPD
- Shocker (Herman Schultz)
- Commander Steve Rogers (Only in flashback) (Also appears as Captain America)
- X-Men
- Muldoon (First appearance)
- Volger (First appearance)
- Paulson (First appearance)
- ⏴ Alicia Masters
- Spider-Slayer (Alistaire Smythe)
- Marla Madison-Jameson (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Heroes for Hire
- Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)
- Hobgoblin (Phil Urich) (Mentioned)
- Lord (God) (Invoked)
- U.N. (Mentioned)
- Frog-Man (Eugene Patilio) (Mentioned)
- Albert Einstein (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- May Parker-Jameson (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Symbiotes
- Mutants
- Homo insectus (Main story and flashback)
- Human-Kree Hybrids
- Cyborgs
- Spider-Slayers (Mentioned)
- Tigers (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Financial District
- Midtown
- Upper West Side
- Central Park (Main story and flashback) (Revealed to be The Jackal's Hideout)
- Lower East Side
- Battery Park
- Bronx
- Spuyten Dyvil
- Ryker's Island (Mentioned)
- Manhattan
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- North America
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Spider-Virus
- Future Foundation Uniforms
- Ms. Marvel's Suit
- Hawkeye's Suit and Trick Arrows
- Spider-Man's Suit (Main story and flashback) and Web-Shooters
- Shocker's Vibro-Shock Gauntlets
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Only in flashback)
- Wolverine's Suit
- Spider-Woman's Suit
- Mandroid Armor
- Stun-Gun
Synopsis for "Spider-Island, Part Four: Spiders, Spiders Everywhere"
At Horizon Labs, everyone is working fast on the spider-sense jammers and vaccinations before reports come in about people physically mutating into human-sized spiders. Even non-powered heroes like Hawkeye are mutating. The only one left in the open is Mary Jane. Meanwhile, Adriana Soria ventures out to meet her subjects. She then reflects on her history leading up to this point, especially when she was defeated by Spider-Man and Captain America. And recently, she had captured Cap and had him mutated into Spider-King, to stand as her consort. On cue, Spider-King has returned. Unknown to her, it is actually Venom in disguise. And Soria comments that there is no cure for the spider-virus, which Jackal fully confirms.
At Our Lady of Saints Church, various spider mutates approach Anti-Venom to cure them. Rejoicing that he is needed, Anti-Venom agrees to cure them.
With New York less than 20 minutes away from full contamination, Mayor Jameson grows more restless by the minute that Horizon nor Mister Fantastic can cure everyone. Therefore, he leaves for the Emergency Command Center for a "package", ignoring everyone's insistence that he must be quarantined.
While Spidey is fleeing all the mutates, Madame Web tells him to assist Jameson, whose motorcade is under attack. However, Jameson refuses to be saved by Spidey again and decides to intervene personally. But unknown to Jameson, since he's infected, Soria can telepathically influence him. Venom thinks to act to stop her from using Jameson to spread her plague when everyone is informed about Anti-Venom an his curing touch. Venom volunteers to go after Anti-Venom, knowing that only he can save Spider-Island. He relays this news to Project Rebirth 2.0, who inform Mister Fantastic.
At the NYC Emergency Command Center, Jameson approaches Alistaire Smythe, the Spider-Slayer, for help. Smythe finds it a joke that Jameson would come to him after wasting his father's life hunting Spider-Man. He then comments on the irony that Jameson has become a Spider-Man. Soria takes the opportunity to influence Jameson, appearing to him as his wife, convincing him that she lied about who not to blame. Jameson then sprouts larger teeth.
Elsewhere on Spider-Island, Heroes for Hire is taxed to capacity holding off the spiders from reaching the jammer; Flash battles with the Venom symbiote as to not destroy Anti-Venom; and Mary Jane finally gets spider powers. By then, everyone on the island is infected. Luckily, Venom brings in Anti-Venom. However, Mister Fantastic tells him that they will need his entire suit to cure the infection.
Back at the ECC, Jameson attempts to attack Smythe, though Spidey tries to restrain him. Out of terror, Smythe claims that his Spider-Slayers can stop the epidemic. Two Mandroid move in to separate both Spidey and Jameson but in doing so, Jameson takes a chunk out of Smythe's neck.
Solicit Synopsis
SPIDER-ISLAND PART FOUR
Nearly 50 years in the making, the story which MUST BE READ: J. Jonah. Jameson: THE SPECTACULALAR SPIDER-MAYOR?!! Nuff Said? Almost, because that wasn't enough, a long running member of the Spidey cast has to make the ultimate sacrifice...Trivia
- The cover is an homage to Amazing Spider-Man #648.