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Get me pictures of Spider-Man!
— The Amazing Spider-Man · 1963
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The line is Jameson in a sentence: a man who runs a newspaper on the belief that a masked hero must be a menace, and who sends the hero's own alter ego out to prove it. The comedy is that the pictures always come from Peter. J. K. Simmons's performance in the Raimi films made it the defining Jameson bark, and it is now shouted at any photographer or intern.
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In context
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J. Jonah Jameson, the loud, flat-topped publisher of the Daily Bugle, debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963), created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. In issue #2 he hires young photographer Peter Parker, who sells him shots of Spider-Man fighting the Vulture without Jameson ever suspecting Peter is the wall-crawler. From there the order for pictures of Spider-Man is Jameson's standing demand: he wants proof that the hero is a criminal, and Peter, hard up for rent money, is the man who supplies it. Lee has said he modelled Jameson on a much grumpier version of himself.
Sources (2)
- Wikipedia: J. Jonah Jamesonlead and Publication HistoryReference checked
- Marvel Database: J. Jonah Jameson (Earth-616)History sectionReference checked
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