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Spectacular Spider-Man Minus 1 1997 That Thompson Boy pg 22 by Luke Ross & Dan Green

Artists: Luke Ross (Penciller) , Dan Green (Inker) , J.M. DeMatteis (Writer)

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Title:	Spectacular Spider-Man Minus 1 1997 That Thompson Boy pg 22 by Luke Ross & Dan Green
Artist:	Luke Ross (Penciller)
Artist:	Dan Green (Inker)
Artist:	J.M. DeMatteis (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	42
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Added to Site:	12/21/2025
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Spectacular Spider-Man Minus 1 1997
Inks over pencil on 11 x 17 Marvel Comics art board
"That Thompson Boy" pg 22
Writer: J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils: Luke Ross
Inks: Dan Green (Signed lower right)

FLASHBACKS! Go behind the scenes of young Flash Thompson's life and learn how he became the obnoxious teen we all came to know and hate! Who was his loud-mouthed bully role-model?Someone in his neighborhood, or someone a little closer to home? The answer may change the way you look at Flash forever!

Interrupting the current Spider-Man storyline, Stan Lee rips through the page to reminisce about the good old days back in the sixties. Here is a tale about Peter Parker before he became Spider-Man.

At the breakfast table, Peter Parker's Uncle Ben is concerned that Peter is spending too much time with his nose in a book. Peter agrees to go outside and play. Down the street, Peter decides to go down to Izzo's Bodega to check out the new comic books when he is shoved to the ground by a boy running by. Izzo tells Peter that he was after the boy because he caught him trying to steal baseball cards. When Peter asks who the boy was, Izzo tells him that it was Eugene "Flash" Thompson.

At that moment, Flash arrives at the playground and is annoyed that the other children have started a baseball game without him. He bullies his way up to the plate and hits a home run. As he runs the bases, Flash's sister comes calling. Flash learns that his mother is looking for his father. Harrison Thompson has been drinking at Herbie's bar. Flash walks in, having searched all the bars in the area. When Eugene tells him that his mother wants him to come home, Thompson the elder gets angry and backhands the boy. Harrison helps his boy up, tearfully asking the boy to forgive him and that he won't hit Eugene again. Shrugging off the abuse, Flash helps his father up and agrees to help him walk home.

Peter Parker is heading back home with a stack of books from the library. Unfortunately, he crosses paths with Flash who is still helping his drunk father and without a second thought, swats Peter out of their path, sending the boy and his books falling to the ground. Back at the Thompson apartment, Rosie tries to get her husband to drink some coffee in an effort to sober up. Helping him get ready for his job as a police officer, the rest of the Thompson family reassures Harrison that he is a good man and that they love him. With his confidence boosted from this love and attention, Harrison heads to work.

Back at the Parker household, Peter can't bring himself to enjoy reading, feeling like he should be putting in an effort to make friends. His thoughts are interrupted by his Uncle Ben who tells Peter that he is happy Peter spends the time to read and expand his mind. Ben suggests Peter give the outdoors another try. Ben insists the boy needs to experience the real world otherwise he is going to have nothing but trouble his entire life. At that same moment, Flash Thompson is fleeing from Mister Izzo's shop getting caught stealing comic books.

Later, at the baseball diamond, Flash continues to push people around. Peter Parker arrives and decides to watch the game. When he sees Flash up at bat, Peter is impressed with Flash's skills and contemplates asking to join in on the game. Flash leads him into believing that he wants Parker to play with them, however, he jokingly tells Peter that he would be good for the girl's team. As the other children laugh at Peter, the rejected young boy decides to go back home.

That evening, Eugene returns home an hour late for dinner and his father is furious. Not only is Harrison angry that his son was late, but he also got a phone call from Mister Izzo about the stealing. Emotions flaring, Eugene makes the mistake of calling his father a drunk and is given an excessive beating. Later that evening, Eugene comes to apologize to his son and assures his children that he still loves him. While Jessie believes this emphatically, Eugene is reluctant to accept his father's words. While at the Parker home, Peter Parker thinks about the kids in the schoolyard like Flash and, wishes he could trade places with the other boy. When his Uncle Ben and Aunt May check on him, Peter tells them what happened and blames himself. However, Uncle Ben is the one who thinks apologies are in order, as his insistence that Peter go outside suggested that he was somehow incomplete. To make up for things, Ben offers to take Peter out to see the new science fiction movie they have both been looking forward to.

After the show, they happen to pass by the apartment building where the Thompson family lives and their passage is seen by Flash from his bedroom window. Seeing a father-and-son out having fun together makes Flash very sad as he wishes he had that sort of relationship with his own father and hopes that the kid down on the street knows how lucky he really is.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 12/22/2025

This was a hit for the minus one issues. It definitely touched upon the origin in a way that leads into the first issue by telling an emotional story we weren't expecting out of a gimmick event.

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