Comics Could Jameson take Peter Parker to court.

[Cyclops]

Peter HAS faked Spidey photos before. Case in point Electro's first appearance. He made it appear that Spider-Man was Electro so he could get some easy money off of JJ.

 

[Happenstance]

I havent got around to reading the issue yet but does JJJ actually decide to take Pete to court or is it one of those spur of them moment things he would shout out after the shock of the reveal?

 

[Donald Thomas]

The creation of the Spider Slayers and the Scorpion are instances of conspiracy to commit murder not to mention the times that Jameson has libeled Spidey in his newspaper. Spidey stands a good chance of getting rich off of Jameson

Aloha,
Very good point. Also there was the trial that She Hulk was a part of. Peter should counter sue JJJ for all he's worth. Conspiracy to commit murder is no joke.JJJ should fry.
Spidy rules

 

[Donald Thomas]

Peter HAS faked Spidey photos before. Case in point Electro's first appearance. He made it appear that Spider-Man was Electro so he could get some easy money off of JJ.

Aloha,
Good point. All JJJ has to do is discover that from ...Electro? I don't think so. But you are right in the legal sense.
Spidey rules

 

[Cyclops]

It was brought up the time Spider-Man sued JJ in "She-Hulk"... that's why Spidey's lawyer decided to include Parker on the suit (and why Spidey decided to settle out of court).

 

[Donald Thomas]

It was brought up the time Spider-Man sued JJ in "She-Hulk"... that's why Spidey's lawyer decided to include Parker on the suit (and why Spidey decided to settle out of court).

Aloha,
Very true but in order for it to have any meaning for Spidey now it would require Marvel to practice crosss continuity
Spidey rules

 

[Shadowknight]

It'll never happen, but it would be vastly amusing if when Marvel decides to ditch the Iron Spidey suit, that it WAS because he lost it in the Spidey Suite (pun intended). Can you imagine Jameson walking around in a shapshifting spider-man suit? Comedy gold.

 

[Galactus]

Here's what JMS said about it:

Having worked as a journalist for a lot of newspapers and magazines
myself, there are a LOT of elements that JJJ can sue Peter over. Not
just sue, but win.

You sign a contract with a newspaper indemnifying them and giving them
certain guarantees concerning the nature of the material you're giving
them: that it hasn't been staged, that you have no personal stake in
the material being covered, that the representations made are honest,
that there was no collusion between you and the source of your piece,
and a bunch of other contractual requirements.

So Jonah can come after Peter for misrepresentation, fraud, breach of
contract, passing off, violating the clauses of his indemnification of
the newspaper, exposing the paper to ridicule, and about a dozen other
torts that would be slam-dunks in any court in the land.

jms

 

[Donald Thomas]

Here's what JMS said about it:

Having worked as a journalist for a lot of newspapers and magazines
myself, there are a LOT of elements that JJJ can sue Peter over. Not
just sue, but win.

You sign a contract with a newspaper indemnifying them and giving them
certain guarantees concerning the nature of the material you're giving
them: that it hasn't been staged, that you have no personal stake in
the material being covered, that the representations made are honest,
that there was no collusion between you and the source of your piece,
and a bunch of other contractual requirements.

So Jonah can come after Peter for misrepresentation, fraud, breach of
contract, passing off, violating the clauses of his indemnification of
the newspaper, exposing the paper to ridicule, and about a dozen other
torts that would be slam-dunks in any court in the land.

jms

Aloha,
wow. The only thing Peter could do is counter sue. Spider Slayers,Scorpion. JJJ financed those things with intent to do harm to Spider-Man. He financed a vigilante and killer robots. Also, JJJ has known on numerous occassions that Spider-Man was not guilty of a particular act-I woud say that Peter's lawyers could claim an ongoing campaign of slander and libel.He could get Robbie and others who would have to testify under oathe that on numerous occassions, they told JJJ that Spidey was not proven the guilty party, but JJJ ran the story anywayas if he was.
Spidey rules with laws and rules

 

[Dragon]

Here's what JMS said about it:

Having worked as a journalist for a lot of newspapers and magazines
myself, there are a LOT of elements that JJJ can sue Peter over. Not
just sue, but win.

You sign a contract with a newspaper indemnifying them and giving them
certain guarantees concerning the nature of the material you're giving
them: that it hasn't been staged, that you have no personal stake in
the material being covered, that the representations made are honest,
that there was no collusion between you and the source of your piece,
and a bunch of other contractual requirements.

So Jonah can come after Peter for misrepresentation, fraud, breach of
contract, passing off, violating the clauses of his indemnification of
the newspaper, exposing the paper to ridicule, and about a dozen other
torts that would be slam-dunks in any court in the land.

jms

Alot of those are bull as far as Peter is ocncerned and almost impossible for Jonah to prove in other cases.

Peter has as mentioned above faked photos. In the case of the Electro scenario however, he gave JJJ photos of Electro's being captured for free as an exchange. And JJJ knew about the Electro photos being faked, and accepted the real photos. So he has no case in that situation.

And then there are the fakes outting John as Spider-Man. that's another level that i chock up to bad editorial policy. Plain and simple Peter Parker (The real one) qwould never do such a thing. That whole story was a mass of terrible writing and I don't get how the boneheads at Marvel let that one through. That was a low even for the guys who made Sins Past.

As for the other stuff, Peter hasn't faked the battles and criminal captures, certainly has never placed the Bugle in a position for fraud or ridicule. If anything, Jonah with his baseless charages against Spider-Man has done that himself. And then there were the numerous, illegal attempts he'd made on Spider-Man's life, the damage to property, and endangering of the public by setting loose Spider slayers and villains like the Scorpion.

 

[stillanerd]

Alot of those are bull as far as Peter is ocncerned and almost impossible for Jonah to prove in other cases.

Peter has as mentioned above faked photos. In the case of the Electro scenario however, he gave JJJ photos of Electro's being captured for free as an exchange. And JJJ knew about the Electro photos being faked, and accepted the real photos. So he has no case in that situation.

And then there are the fakes outting John as Spider-Man. that's another level that i chock up to bad editorial policy. Plain and simple Peter Parker (The real one) qwould never do such a thing. That whole story was a mass of terrible writing and I don't get how the boneheads at Marvel let that one through. That was a low even for the guys who made Sins Past.

As for the other stuff, Peter hasn't faked the battles and criminal captures, certainly has never placed the Bugle in a position for fraud or ridicule. If anything, Jonah with his baseless charages against Spider-Man has done that himself. And then there were the numerous, illegal attempts he'd made on Spider-Man's life, the damage to property, and endangering of the public by setting loose Spider slayers and villains like the Scorpion.

Well said. But there was that one instance where Spider-Man DID fake a battle between himself and the Sandman in Amazing Spider-Man #4, in which after Spidey captured him, he realized he forgot to take photos of the battle, so he threw some sand in the air and took pictures of himself "punching" through it. But yeah, that's probably the only time that I can think of where Peter deliberately faked a photo.

However, if anything, the Daily Bugle is actually the one in trouble because the public might get the impression that since one of the Daily Bugle's photographers was in fact Spider-Man, Jameson was, ironically, making a publicity stunt to sell newspapers featuring Spider-Man, no matter how negative the articles were. "Besides" the public says, throwing Jolly Jonah's words back in his face, "Maybe Spider-Man and Jameson were partners?"

 

[MyPokerShirt]

Anybody read She-Hulk #9? Looks like peter will get amnesty from the President of the United States because he unmasked. Minor spoilers: JJJ attacks She-Hulk with a spider slayer but then they become friends as she promises she can sue the pants off pete. Then she whispers to her hubby John that she'd keep it in the courts for years. So looks like this possible story thread is gone. Hope the spider-man writers realise its been covered in She-Hulk now and don't come up with a conflicting story.

 

[Donald Thomas]

Here's what JMS said about it:

Having worked as a journalist for a lot of newspapers and magazines
myself, there are a LOT of elements that JJJ can sue Peter over. Not
just sue, but win.

You sign a contract with a newspaper indemnifying them and giving them
certain guarantees concerning the nature of the material you're giving
them: that it hasn't been staged, that you have no personal stake in
the material being covered, that the representations made are honest,
that there was no collusion between you and the source of your piece,
and a bunch of other contractual requirements.

So Jonah can come after Peter for misrepresentation, fraud, breach of
contract, passing off, violating the clauses of his indemnification of
the newspaper, exposing the paper to ridicule, and about a dozen other
torts that would be slam-dunks in any court in the land.

jms

Aloha,
While this may be true of people with a contract. Peter is a Free lancer. He does not work for the Bugle and to my knowledge has no contract with the Bugle. He can be hired and fired at the whim of JJJ which he has.
SPidey rules

 

[Dragon]

Aloha,
While this may be true of people with a contract. Peter is a Free lancer. He does not work for the Bugle and to my knowledge has no contract with the Bugle. He can be hired and fired at the whim of JJJ which he has.
SPidey rules

Peter did take on a job as a staff photographer in ASM #99 but i'm not sure how long that status lasted. I'd guess until Wolfman's run when he started working at the Globe, but i could be wrong. So i suppose the contractual obligations would have applied there.

But again, the question of Jameson proving any actual wrong doing is the thing. Peter was never guilty of fraud, never staged anything and never put the Bugle in a position of being ridiculed, except for proving Jonah's theories about Spidey wrong.

 

[Dragon]

Anybody read She-Hulk #9? Looks like peter will get amnesty from the President of the United States because he unmasked. Minor spoilers: JJJ attacks She-Hulk with a spider slayer but then they become friends as she promises she can sue the pants off pete. Then she whispers to her hubby John that she'd keep it in the courts for years. So looks like this possible story thread is gone. Hope the spider-man writers realise its been covered in She-Hulk now and don't come up with a conflicting story.

Wait- he attacks her with a Spider Slayer, and she doesn't bring up the illagality of that?

 

[Donald Thomas]

Anybody read She-Hulk #9? Looks like peter will get amnesty from the President of the United States because he unmasked. Minor spoilers: JJJ attacks She-Hulk with a spider slayer but then they become friends as she promises she can sue the pants off pete. Then she whispers to her hubby John that she'd keep it in the courts for years. So looks like this possible story thread is gone. Hope the spider-man writers realise its been covered in She-Hulk now and don't come up with a conflicting story.

Aloha,
Also just read She Hulk #9. Peter doesn't own the Iron Spidey suit-Tony Stark does. Jen won't be the one keeping it in court for years-Starks lawyers will.
Spidey rules

 

[MyPokerShirt]

^what are you on about? you're just guessing at that. she says SHE'LL keep it in the court for years. anyway technically tony gave pete the suit so...

and yeah JJ acts like a complete bigoted racist dick. kept going on about her green skin. how inapropriate is that when she's your son's new bride?? anyway i think it was all for comic relief more than anything. maybe to tie up the law suit loose ends (they probs wont mention it in spideys main books)

 

[Shadowknight]

Wait- he attacks her with a Spider Slayer, and she doesn't bring up the illagality of that?

Because she's used to heroes beating each other up out of anger or some sort of mixup. More likely, she now has JJJ as her father in law and would rather not have him hate her non-stop. He went from cold and frigid to calling her the best daughter-in-law ever.

 

[MyPokerShirt]

He went from cold and frigid to

raving lunatic to

calling her the best daughter-in-law ever.