spidermanissue12

What Marvel Say: Humiliated by a prior defeat, Peter Parker sets out to topple the Kingpin of crime. But will the young wall crawler's burning desire for vengeance instead deliver him straight into the ham-like hands of Wilson Fisk? Plus: the aftermath of the Green Goblin's attack on midtown high.
What Jonathan Says to parts 1 &2: Issue #11 set up the pins and wow does Bendis knock them down in this issue. Just dynamite action and the best superhero banter yet. Bagley is working his tail off in the first few pages of the book, as are Electro and the Enforcers. They throw everything they have at Spidey and our webslinger does his best to retaliate in kind. They finally get a hold of the squirmy arachnid, but Peter is playing another creature's game, the possum, and surprises Kingpin's lackeys. After knocking the Enforcers around (doing his best superhero fighting to date), Spider-Man and Electro start grappling and Peter, in a nod to his own growth as a superhero, calls Electro a "one trick pony." Then, Peter comes right out and asks Electro the question we all want to know: "How'd you get these powers?…I'll tell you how I got mine." He is kidding around a little, but he's also serious because we all know there's always going to be that scientific curiosity in the kid. That's why we love him. But things turn really serious when Electro threatens Peter's family and Peter (in a great Bagley panel) kicks open a water heater and throws Electro into the flood, justifiably zapping the charged up villain of all his strength.
Spider-Man, after telling Ox to confess to his and Kingpin's crimes, heads for the door happy as can be, "I did it. I won. I have the discs. I stood my ground. I won. How entirely cool am I?" I love this kid. He's so fun. But the massive Kingpin

blocks his exit and Peter stands in front of him and tells him he's thought about this moment and what he would say and I'm thinking it's going to be some sappy thing like, My uncle died because of you, but to my gleeful surprise Peter goes into a stand-up routine with every fat joke he can muster (all wonderfully written out for him on paper-nice touch-I liked the marshmallow one the best). So we see that Peter doesn't hold the Kingpin responsible for Ben's death. He hangs that on himself and that's the way it should be. So then they do a little fighting, but Peter just toys with the big guy and after webbing up his trunk-like arms says, "I didn't come here to fight you. Any idiot can do that."
We next see Pistol Pete going through his surveillance disc booty and he takes out the disc with his face on it, tells himself he's "Lucky," and then drops the rest on Ben Urich's desk the next day, who has no clue where they came from, but obviously runs right into JJJ's office and Peter, good employee that he is, has given the Bugle a real big scoop and put the Kingpin on the lam.
Peter, now superhero deluxe, calls MJ (looking very hot in only a yellow towel) and tells her to come to his house after school the next day, "I have something really important to tell you," he says. Is he going to tell her he's Spider-Man? That would be an interesting development. My bet is no. He wants to, but something is going to get in the way. My guess is Aunt May finds out first, and instead, he'll have to tell Mary Jane something romantic instead.
Finally we see the Kingpin, who is hiding out in either the Savage Land or the northern Bronx, reading about his escapades in Bugle and he's not happy about it. Kingpin will be back of course and he'll be pissed.