Spider-Woman 1

...A FUTURE UNCERTAIN!
Spider-Woman is alone inside a closed market just outside Trafalgar Square in London. She's contemplating about her life whether or not she has become a scavenger and thief. As she picks up a can of Iota's Tomatoes, she throws it towards the other stacked cans and knocks them down. She's hungry, frustrated and refuses to ruin her future by stealing even to live. Suddenly with her extra-acute hearing, she hears footsteps coming her way. It's Archie Kalnan, the night watchman doing his rounds. He thinks rats have knocked the cans down and doesn't notice Spider-Woman above the ceiling.

As Spider-Woman tries to leave the market through the venelation system, SHIELD agent Jerry Hunt catches her coming out. In her attempt to get away, Hunt manages to unmask her, but she manages to escape. Hunt has seen her somewhere before but can't remember where. And the more he thinks about the more he is drawn to her.

Another bright summer morning and Jessica Drew is walking towards her flat. A couple of women watches her walk bye and whispering to themselves how strange she is. Even three youn boys whisper what their mothers say about her, but they also notice her beauty and wonder what may be wrong with her. As she enters the tenement flat, Mrs. McGruder whispers and asks Ollie why he has rented the flat to Jessica. Ollie tells Mrs. McGruder that he sees suffering in her eyes and he couldn't bear to see more suffering, not for a measly flat.

As the day ends and night falls, Jessica dreams of her origin. She is sees images of Modred the Mystic as he touched her mind to show her past. She sees a visions of Wyndham (High Evolutionary) and 2 other scientist. She sees a child and her parents, Wyndham and place called Wundagore. She sees the child become ill and the father desperately injecting her with an experemental serum as the mother objects for the child to go through any more experments. Then she sees the Father at the Mother's grave site. The visions continue as Wyndham continues the experimental treatment from the genetic accelerator and the awakens. But the visions also indicate that the child has grown. Suddenly she wakes up from her dream.

Spider-Woman #1 unpublished cover art (April 1978) by Infantino. Obtained and posted by Fred de Boom at www.comicartfans.com. de Boom commissioned Bob Wiacek in 2005 to ink the Infantino's pencil drawing. I took the liberty of coloring it. JC