Spider-Man Unleashed

Not to be confused with Spider-Man Unleashed

Spider-Man Unleashed is a comic taking place on Earth-606. Peter Parker gets enhanced agility, the ability to climb walls, and super-strength after a spider injected with the failed Infinity Formula bites him at a football game rather then getting bit by a spider exposed to radioactivity on a field trip.

Volumes

Vol. 1 - With Great Power...

Issues: #1-4

Plot: Adrian Tombes, C.E.O. of Oscorp after the mysterious "death" of Norman Osborn, is working on an anti-aging formula that also enhances strength. He calls it the Infinity Formula and tests it on a spider. It goes wrong and results in a hulked-out spider, about the size of a shoe, that is glowing green. The spider escapes and crawls through the city. It finds Peter Parker, a kid at his school's football game. It bites Peter on the foot, and he passes out. He wakes up at home, and discovers he has enhanced agility, strength, and can crawl on walls. He decides to join the football team to impress his crush, Felicia Hardy. One night he is attacked by a mugger. He punches the mugger, who runs off. He spends the rest of the night hunting down the mugger, but doesn't find him. He gets home late, and his Uncle Ben gives him a lecture about how with great power comes great responsibility. Peter runs off and spends most of thr night walking around town. When he goes to get something to eat at a mini-mart, he sees Uncle Ben walk in looking for him. Peter avoids getting caught and runs out through the back door. Suddenly, he sees the mugger who ambushed him earlier enter the store. Peter looks through the window and sees the mugger rob the place. Uncle Ben tries to stop the mugger, but gets shot. Peter decides to use his powers to find the mugger and avenge his uncle, now knowing with great power comes reat responsibility. He designs a device called a web-shooter and makes a costume to protect his identity as he goes to stop the mugger. Meanwhile, Adrian Tombes is fed up and tests the Infinity Formula on himself. Hr is horribly effected by it and becomes a green, super-strong beast with bat-like wings. He is uncontrollable and flies out the window, wreaking havoc on the city. He is nicknamed "The Vulture" by locals, and Spider-Man goes after him. Spider-Man meets Vulture on top of the Oscorp building. They fight, and Vulture is suddenly shot at by a helicopter. Spidey tries to tell them that he's just a human who was turned into a monster, and they shouldn't kill him. However, it is too late, and Vulture is shot in the wing, and stumbles backwards off the building, turning to human form as he falls. Peter finds out who Vulture really is, and tries to web onto him, but the web snaps and Adrian falls into the sewers. Later that night, air bubbles come up from the sewer water, hinting at his return.

Introduced: Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Felicia Hardy, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Flash Thompson, Adrian Tombes/The Vulture, The Mugger

Villains: The Vulture, The Mugger

Major Locations: Midtown High, Oscorp, Queens

Deaths: Vulture, Uncle Ben

Vol. 2 - Survival of the Fittest

Issues: #5-9

Plot: Spider-Man is the new hero, and easy target of mobsters. So, the mobster known as simply "The Boss" and his henchman, Hammerhead, hire a hit-man named Sergei Kravenoff to kill Spider-Man. After Sergei is defeated, he becomes obsessed with revenge, and invades the abondend Oscorp building in search of the Infinity Formula. He injects it into his bloodstream, expecting immortality and super-strength, but grows huge claws, a tail, fur, and fangs. He tries to kill Spider-Man as Kravenoff The Hunter!

Introduced: Kravenoff The Hunter, "The Boss", Hammerhead

Villains: Kravenoff The Hunter, "The Boss", Hammerhead

Major Locations: Midtown High, Queens, Oscorp

Vol. 3 - Warlords

Issues: #10-16

Plot: The new kids in Mr. Connors' class, John Jameson, Ned Leeds, Mark Raxton, and Mary Jane Watson, start to bug Peter in various ways, while The Kingpin wages war on the mysterious crime-lord known as simply "The Boss". When all of the sudden, Harry Osborn, son of presumably deceased millionaire Norman Osborn, gets caught in the cross-fire, Spider-Man takes it upon himself to stop this gangwar, but Kingpin's thug, Shocker, proves to be a major obstacle. After Spidey defeats Shocker in the sewers by breaking a sewage pipe, spraying all the sewer water at Shocker and making his technology glitch and explode, he goes to investigate who "The Boss" is exactly, and discovers something shocking....

Introduced: Harry Osborn, Mary Jane Watson, Curt Connors, Ned Leeds, John Jameson, Mark Raxton, The Kingpin, Shocker

Villains: Kingpin, Shocker, "The Boss"

Major Locations: The Sewers, Midtown High, New York

Vol. 4 - Mutation

Issues: #17-20

Plot: After discovering his teacher, Dr. Connors, is "The Boss", Peter is shocked and swears not to tell anybody, but still feels he needs to stop Connors' reign over all of N.Y. crime. Later, Spider-Man and the Human Torch start arguing with eachother on a regular basis as the Torch comes to Queens to get a break from the rest of the F.F. However, the two end up working with eachother when Connors, a.k.a. The Boss, tests out a new steroid on himself and transforms himself into The Lizard! After they defeat Lizard, Peter finally realizes how much he likes Mary Jane, his new rival, after she becomes a major Human Torch fan (which annoys Peter).

Introduced: Human Torch, Liz Allen

Villains: "The Boss"/Dr. Connors/The Lizard

Major Locations: The Baxter Building, Queens, Midtown High

Annual #1

Plot: Mark Raxton, Liz Allen's boyfriend, is bitten by a radioactive fire-ant. He goes to the hospital, and Peter wonders who would try to copy the radioactive spider that bit him. He finds a laboratory called "Jupiter Labs", owned by Dr. Maxwell Dillon. Peter sees his been making more radioactive creatures (Radioactive Electric Eels, Wolves, Lizards) Peter sneaks out of the laboratory before Maxwell catches him, and comes back as Spider-Man to confront Maxwell. He spooks Maxwell and accidentally knocks him into a tank of radioactive electric eels. The cops bust in and Spidey escapes. Maxwell, after being attacked by radioactive electric eels, has gained the power of electorkenesis and gets Mark Raxton. He threatens to find and destroy Liz Allen and her entire family unless Mark helps him kill Spider-Man. They attack Midtown High under the names Electro and Molten Man, and get the attention of Spider-Man. They fight, and the battle leads to the beach, where Spidey knocks Electro into the water and convinces Mark (aka Molten Man) to stop commiting crimes and use his powers for good. Mark decides to become a hero, but the police arrest him anyways, and Mark swears revenge on Spider-Man for letting them take him.

Introduced: Electro, Officer Stacy, Molten Man, Dr. Roderick Kingsley

Villains: Electro, Molten Man

Major Locations: Jupiter Labs, Midtown High, The Beach, The Hospital, NYPD Police Station

Deaths: Electro (presumably)

Vol. 5 - Six

Issues: #21-24

Plot: Molten Man breaks out, Kravenoff breaks out, Curt Connors breaks out, Shocker returns, and Electro is revived, Spider-Man is having the hardest time of his life. But who's behind it all? Spidey finds out that Adrian Tombes is back, and he's assembled them all to slow down Spidey as he recreates the Vulture formula. Spider-Man defeats them all and makes it to Adrian's underground lab.... only to find out who's too late and Adrian has perfected the new Vulture formula! They have a large battle, and Spidey manages to defeat him again by using a piece of broken glass to stab his wings and then knock him out. When Vulture turns back into Adrian Tombes, Spider-Man gets back home and gets a lecture from Aunt May for staying out too late. When Peter's asleep, Aunt May notices something in his backpack... the Spider-Man costume!

Introduced: N/A

Villains: Sinister Six (Molten Man, Kravenoff the Hunter, The Lizard, Shocker, Electro, The Vulture)

Major Locations: The R.A.F.T., The Sewers, Manhattan

Vol. 6 - Venom

Issues: #25-28

Plot: Dr. Octavius, now in charge of Jupiter Labs after Dr. Dillon became Electro, launches an expirement to make a special armor, so he can sell it to a mysterious crime-lord for millions of dollars. The armor fails, and the crime-boss give Octavius one last chance. Octaviuc creates a fire, water, bullet, and electricity-proof substance. When the substance attaces to any living thing, it forms an armor around them.