Marvel Novel Series 01 - The Amazing Spider-Man - Mayhem In Manhattan by Len Wein

Author:Len Wein [Wein, Len]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 0671820443
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1978-04-09T07:00:00+00:00

Nine

Gloria Grant neatly typed the final line of her letter, then examined it for errors; Jonah Jameson disliked errors. He also disliked smudges, misfolded mail, and the thirteen-cent postage stamp. Come to think of it, J. Jonah Jameson disliked practically everything about everything since Herbert Hoover had lost to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

According to Jameson, the modern workaday world had become a shambles. The seeming simplicity of the good old days was gone, replaced by an intricate maze of rules and regulations designed solely to drive the Daily Bugle’s peerless publisher to distraction.

Glory was satisfied with the letter, which meant Jameson would only pick it apart for a minute or two, providing, of course, the rest of his day hadn’t gone sour since last she spoke with him. That was before Jonah and Joe Robertson had huddled together over their lunch-long secret meeting. The office was buzzing with speculation: Was Robbie going to be promoted? Was he going to be fired? Was Jameson quitting? Was he preparing to fire the entire staff? Everybody knew everything, and nobody knew anything—all at the same time.

Taking a deep breath, Glory knocked on Jameson’s door, then entered. Jonah was standing behind his desk, staring out the window at a panoramic view of New York. Joe Robertson was sitting in a hard-backed chair studying a pile of papers and making notes. It always amazed Glory how Jameson, a rough, tending-to-the-vulgar publisher, and Robbie, a quiet middle-of-the-roader, got along so well. They seemed so very different. Yet perhaps it was those differences that made them fit together so well. Two human jigsaw puzzle pieces, interlocking, supporting one another where it counted the most.

Jameson turned to Glory, his thick eyebrows raised in a silent question. Glory smiled. “Your letter to the mayor’s office, Mr. Jameson—the one about ridding this city of Spider-Man. It needs your signature.”

Jameson grunted, and the muscles at the base of Glory’s neck tightened involuntarily in anticipation of Jonah’s typical ten-minute tirade against the Wall-crawler. She’d heard it so often, she’d already learned it by heart. Yet, every time Spider-Man’s name was mentioned, Jameson would repeat his overzealous complaints, as if the other person were only hearing them for the first time.

Jonah crossed the office and signed the letter without reading it. “Thank you, Miss Grant. That will be all. Why don’t you take the rest of the day off?” With that he turned back to the window, and Glory staggered out of the room, confused, bewildered, and slightly worried. Something was definitely wrong with that man.

Robertson waited until Glory had left before picking up the conversation where he and Jameson had left off. “Frankly, Jonah, none of my informants have been able to learn a thing. There’s something brewing all right, something nasty—but the word is out, and everyone has shut up like the proverbial clam.”

Jameson lit another cigar and offered one to Robbie, who refused. They’d been working together for years, and Jameson still couldn’t pry Robertson away from his precious pipe. “You know, Robbie, it’s typical.

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