Edward 'Ned' Leeds

When he was alive, Ned Leeds was one of the Bugle's top reporters. He became a crime-reporter once Frederick Foswell was killed saving JJJ's life. After a long engagement, he married former JJJ secretary Betty Brant. Ned Leeds knew Richard Fisk (a.k.a. the first Rose). JJJ would assign him to follow the Hobgoblin and have him discover the identity of the villain.

But Roderick Kingsley (the Hobgoblin) found about this and had Ned brainwahsed with the Winkler device. The device would make Leeds turn into a more agressive person (which would explain his anger towards people like Peter, Betty and Flash). Kingsley would have Ned "play" the Hobgolbin at some times, but when Kinglsey grew tired of being the Goblin, he decided to "retire". Kingsley would have problems with the first Jack 'O Lantern (Jason Macendale) at that time. When MacenDale would discover that Ned is the Hobgoblin and he would have Ned killed in Germany while he was wearing the Hobgoblin costume. Kingsley secluded himself to Europe and Macendale would become the new Hobgoblin. Kingsley later confessed to this to Betty and the Daily Bugle.

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Betty Brant Leeds

Being raised by a single parent, Betty had to drop out of High School to take care of her sick mother's, who was rendered in a coma at the hands of loan sharks in search of Betty's brotehr Bennett. She took her job at the Daily Bugle as secretary of JJJ. There, she met the young new photographer Peter Parker. She would become Peter's first girlfriend. Betty had a soft spot for Peter because she saw that he only wanted the job for the money and to take care of his aunt. But due to a previous bad experience, Betty feared that Peter might be reckless and that he might die while taking pictures of Spider-Man.

This caused a rift between the two. Also, Liz Allan would develop a crush on Peter, and would want to spend more time with her classmate. This would infuriate Betty. Later, when Bennett died at the hands of a Spidey-Ock fight, Betty blamed Spider-Man for her brother's death. Peter's secret identity would drive the two apart. From there, she'd remain friend's with Peter, but she'd date fellow Bugle employee, and star reporter, Edward 'Ned' Leeds. Betty would later marry Ned after several months of dating. During the time Ned was being controlled by the Hobgoblin, he became more and more aggressive. This also caused Betty to have an affair with Flash Thompson. When Ned would die, Betty would start to lose it; she'd even join a cult, and started thinking that Ned was still alive. In the end, she'd get over all of that. From the time Ned died and the return of Norman Osborn, Betty left her post as secretary and become a reporter. Her relationship with Flash's friendship had been a rocky one, and, at times, she really didn't like speaking to him at all. Eventually, she would decide to help Flash overcome his alcohol abuse problem. The two would get close to each other, but after many months together, she would dump Flash due to his poor attitude. She still is a reporter for the Bugle.

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Joseph "Robbie" Robertson

The Editor of the Daily Bugle is a loving father of one son, Randy, and who enjoys his life with wife Martha. Robbie is the heart and soul of the Bugle, he wants the paper to be unbiased (unlike the anti-Spidey headlines that JJJ does). He is the one of the few who can calm down JJJ (Martha Jameson being the other) - he probably is JJJ's best friend. In high school he was bullied by Lonnie Lincoln (later known as mobster Tombstone) and later he would be a witness to one of Lincoln's murders. By failing to report his information to the police, he would be sent to prison for 3 years many years later.

But a pardon would take him out of jail. During this time, Tombstone would return to Robbie's life by breaking his back. But Robbie would take part in the capture of Tombstone. After a few brushes with death and the recent acquisition of the Bugle by Osborn, Martha convinced Robbie to quit his job. Robbie would go to Greece with Martha. There Robbie would talk with an unknown man and he'd discover that Alison Mongrain works for Osborn. When Mongrain's boat would explode (due to the Scriers), he'd got to the hospital to search for her, but she'd be gone. He'd chase her from Europe to all the way back to NY. It is unknown if Robbie's trip to Greece was a coincidence where he stumbled upon information by accident or it was all a planned attempt to get information that would take down Osborn. He is currently back as Editor of Bugle. Robbie has, possibly, always suspected that Peter is/was Spider-Man.

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J. Jonah Jameson

The owner if the Daily Bugle and it's publisher is a well-respected journalist who has a lot of pull in NYC, but he uses his paper to continue his personal vendetta against Spider-Man. He was once married to a woman named Joan, but she passed away. He later remarried a scientist by the name of Marla Madison. Since Spider-Man was in show-business and later became known as a hero, JJJ has believed that the hero is a glory hound who wants nothing more than good publicity. Even early in Spider-Man's career, the Web-Slinger saved JJJ's son John on a space mission gone wrong.

JJJ hated him even more for overshadowing his son in the news. One of JJJ's greatest shames is that he secretly funded the experiment that created the villain known as Scorpion. JJJ told only told this to Norman Osborn, who wrote it down in his journals. He never told anybody else. When those journals where found by the Hobgoblin, he wanted to use blackmail to get money, in exchange he won't leak all the secrets to the public. With that, JJJ decided to write an editorial in the paper which admits that he had part in the creation of the villain. In that editorial, JJJ stepped down as Editor-in-Cheif and gave it to long-time friend Robbie Robertson. JJJ is also responsible for the creation of another villain, Spencer Smyther; the Spider-Slayer, and via default, his son Alistair Smythe.
Despite the fact Spidey has saved his life (and his family's life) countless of times, he STILL claims to hate him. He may act like he is a penny-pincher who hates everyone who works for him, but he really cares for them. For example when Peter would be accused of being a serial killer, JJJ would hire the best attourney for Peter. He feels close to Peter, as if he were his son. When Jack 'O Lantern II would threaten to harm Marla and John if JJJ didn't sell over half of the Bugle to Norman Osborn, JJJ forcefully sold it. After spending months of comtemplating to kill Norman, he couldn't make himself to pull the trigger. This made JJJ feel weak, but then Spidey came and interrupted them and he felt that Spidey came there to gloat about how he couldn't kill Osborn. A few days later, when the Goblin and Spidey are fighting, the Bugle gets destroyed and JJJ blames Spidey for the destruction of his building. Due to Norman's disappearance, JJJ retakes his position at the top of the Daily Bugle as sole owner. A few months later, when a close friends' daughter, Martha Franklin (Spider-Woman III) runs away from home, JJJ and Marla takes her in. She would runaway from her caretakers and wind up in a lot of trouble.

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Gwen Stacy

Gwen Stacy is best known in the history of Spider-Man (and in the history of comics) for her death. The hero's girlfriend wasn't supposed to die - but Gwen did, and somehow has remained in the coffin. Although she's been cloned, the original Gwen Stacy never returned. For Peter Parker, the impact of her death was second only to the death of Uncle Ben. It would be an understatement to say that Peter is haunted by Gwen's murder.

In the beginning, Gwen went to Standard High School in New York City (not Mid- Town High where Peter went) where she was described as the "beauty queen". She graduated and went to Empire State University as a biochemistry major where she met classmate Peter Parker. Her first impression of Peter was a mixture of attraction with disdain for his apparent disinterest in her (Peter was preoccupied by the hospitalization of his Aunt May).

Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, Gwen and Peter grew closer together. However, Peter's famous introduction to the mysterious "girl-next-door" Mary Jane Watson distracted him from Gwen and led her to date Harry Osborn out of jealousy. MJ and Gwen both competed for Peter's affections. But eventually, Peter chose Gwen, and MJ ended up with Harry. Peter loved Gwen more deeply than he had ever loved any woman before.

Gwen lived with her father, police Capt. George Stacy. Spider-Man's interactions with her father helped dispel misconceptions she had towards the alter-ego of her boyfriend. Though her father had his suspicions of Peter, Gwen did not discover Peter's secret identity. Once, Peter revealed his identity to Gwen and his friends while suffering from a high fever (Amazing Spider-Man #87). He later convinced everyone that he wasn't in his right mind through the assistance of the Prowler showing up wearing a Spider-Man costume.

After a battle with Doctor Octopus (Death of Captain Stacy), Gwen's father was accidentally killed by falling debris from the melee. In Captain Stacy's last words, he called Spider-Man "Peter" and asked him to take care of his daughter. Gwen felt Spider-Man bore responsibility for her father's death. Desperate to see Spider-Man punished, she put her support behind Sam Bullit, a hard line "law and order" man that was running for District Attorney. He was secretly a racist, and got caught by police after he arranged to have Robbie Robertson silenced for knowing too much about him.

Gwen and Peter continued dating. Traveling to the Savage Land in Gog! (Amazing #103-#104) with Peter, Gwen was captured by Kraven the Hunter who intended to make her his queen. Spider-Man and Ka-Zar rescued Gwen from Kraven and the monster Gog.

Gwen's final adventure took place when she was captured by Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin. The Goblin captured Gwen to use as a hostage against Spider-Man. In Amazing Spider-Man #121, Spider-Man found the Green Goblin with Gwen atop the George Washington Bridge (note: the artwork showed the Brooklyn Bridge). Gwen lay unconscious in a state of shock. During a battle between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, the Goblin knocked Gwen off the bridge. Though Spider-Man caught her with his webbing before hitting the water below, Gwen died in the fall. A "snap" by her neck implied that perhaps the jolt of the sudden stop broke her neck. (Note: The broken neck was confirmed in Amazing Spider-Man #207, though this sound effect has been taken out in some reprints of this story, leaving the matter rather ambiguous.)

Gwen's death drove Spider-Man to nearly kill the Goblin. Though he stopped himself from pummeling the Goblin to death, the Goblin impaled himself on his own glider, killing himself (temporarily, albeit.)

Gwen's teacher, Professor Miles Warren (a.k.a. the Jackal), was secretly in love with Gwen. Distraught over her death, Warren created a clone of Gwen using cell samples he had kept of his beloved student. Gwen Stacy's Clone is still alive to date, but mostly remains outside of Peter Parker's life.

Recently, two children of Gwen Stacy have shown up. Sarah Stacy and Gabriel Stacy were born to Gwen in Paris France, to keep them away from their father, Norman Osborn. Gwen had been drawn to Norman's power and felt bad for him when he seemed so distraught by his son Harry's drug addiction. Gwen had an affair with him, something she soon regretted once she realized how ruthless he was.

It had long been thought that Norman had come to Peter's apartment looking for Spider-Man, but had really come for Gwen to force her to give him the children. The twins were only at seven months gestation when they were born, but seemed to have aged to full term infants. It was found that the Goblin serum in Norman's DNA had accelerated their aging. Even though Gabriel and Sarah appear to be in their twenties, they are really only children.

While it has been many years since Gwen's death, Peter keeps her close to his heart. After saving a gangster named Forelli from the creature known as Digger, Spidey was paid $10,000 for his services. Not liking to take money from a murderer, Peter anonymously donated the money to build the Gwen Stacy Memorial Library. He has also visited her grave when he needs to think.

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Kristy Watson

The cousin of Mary Jane moved in with May, Peter and MJ in Forrest Hills when her parents, Lou and Sybil, were taking a long trip in Europe. At first, she hated being surrounded by May's Grey Panther friends, but she lived with it and developped a crush on Peter. Hoping to become a model like MJ, Kristy became bulimic and suffured a mild heart attack at 13. When her parents came back, she got into a fight with them and continued to live with the Parkers. She would later become a live-in babysitter for the Osborn, taking care of Normie. It is unknown where she is at this current time. Read more...

Anna Watson

She is the aunt of Mary Jane, as well as being May's oldest and dearest friends. She also became May's clone by acting almost exactly like May. Earlier in her life, she went to Hollywood with hopes of becoming an actress, but instead she found a man. She married that man (Jacob Hilliard), but quickly their love for each other would disappear ans she would have an affair (with Johnny Dipalma), and she'd leave Hollywood dismayed. She returned to New York and never spoke of this incident to anyone. She would move to Florida. When, she found out that May had suffered a stroke, she returned to New York permanently. When May died, she moved in with the young couple at their (well May's) home in Forrest Hills. Currently, when Peter, MJ and May would all move into this big apartment in Manhattan, Anna would continue to live at the Forrest Hills home. Read more...