Wow. That's all kinds of disturbing. Kind of makes me recall that scene in Different Strokes, the bicycle shop owner guy. Yikes. Keep away!

Holy crap-- I HAVE this comic. It's hilarious. You should see the one where Batman fights back against "The Horror of Landmines."

What's worse is that Skip kinda looks like young Uncle Ben...Stranger Danger!

I think there was a 3 part to that panel where peter feels his spider sense tingling in his pants.

lmao

Since Peter is single again, maybe they should bring Skip back. They could do variant covers where Skip is in Mary Jane's place in all of those iconic issues. CGC would make a mint!

I'm pretty sure that's a Stan Lee cameo.

Somebody...please...tell me how this ends. I've seen the above panel online for years and it always ends the same way "the Young boy(Peter) was too afraid to leave". Is that how the comic ends? Did Spidey really get raped by Skip or what? And why hasnt this been brought up in the modern-day books? This seems like the kind of thing Modern Marvel would have a field day with. Maybe Skip was a sexually-confused Skrull.....

...This was back in the day when Jim Shooter ran Marvel. About the same time, Bruce Banner was shown staying at a NYC YMCA, and was about to get raped in the showers by two guys, only to find out that the statement "you won't like me when I'm angry" is one that has some real meaning to it. Every time Eddie Murphy does his "What if Mr. T was gay?" bit, this scene always pops into my mind!

"Doc, we've got two attempted homosexual rapists here. One's got his skull cracked and his ribs caved in, but the other....welll..."

"Well? Well what?"

"It's his dick, doc."

"What about it?"

"It's half ripped off, and what's left looks like it's been sucked through a soda straw!"

"Oy."

Heh,this is just like the "boys beware" black and white homosexual PSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEl1ye_OPJs

especially the bit at 3:45, "then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures"

FYI, one and all: No, the story does not stop with Peter being "too frightened to leave"; he goes on to tell Uncle Ben and Aunt May about what happened a few days later, and, yes, the implication here is that Skip molested Pete, or at least touched him inappropriately. The reason Skip has never come up again is that this was not excerpted from an actual Spider-Man comic, but from one of those public-service giveaway comics, and as such, Skip is no more a part of Marvel continuity than any of the villains from those Hostess Twinkies ads (Be warned: if any of you bring up Madame Web, I will punch your heart out and shit in the hole!).
At least, that's the theoretical reason; my personal belief has always been that Skip could never come back because, well...think about it--- This guy forces himself on Peter Parker and a few years later, Peter can walk on walls and juggle Buicks----what the hell do you think happened to Skip?! HE'S DEAD, JIM!!! And I don't mean like Doctor Doom/Guardian/Colossus, nobody-but-an-idiot-thinks-you're-gone-for-good-type dead, I mean like ripped-into-bite-size-chunks-and-fed-to-the-freaking-dog-type-dead. Hell, years after the fact, the NYPD is probably still occasionally finding pieces of this guy.
In 1985 or so, circa the release of this comic, the joke around the Marvel Bullpen was that it was only a matter of time until some "brilliant" writer brought Skip into continuity as a supervillain: "The Malevolent MOLESTO!!!" Frankly, I think it becomes more likely with each passing year.............

FYI, one and all: No, the story does not stop with Peter being "too frightened to leave"; he goes on to tell Uncle Ben and Aunt May about what happened a few days later, and, yes, the implication here is that Skip molested Pete, or at least touched him inappropriately. The reason Skip has never come up again is that this was not excerpted from an actual Spider-Man comic, but from one of those public-service giveaway comics, and as such, Skip is no more a part of Marvel continuity than any of the villains from those Hostess Twinkies ads (Be warned: if any of you bring up Madame Web, I will punch your heart out and shit in the hole!).
At least, that's the theoretical reason; my personal belief has always been that Skip could never come back because, well...think about it--- This guy forces himself on Peter Parker and a few years later, Peter can walk on walls and juggle Buicks----what the hell do you think happened to Skip?! HE'S DEAD, JIM!!! And I don't mean like Doctor Doom/Guardian/Colossus, nobody-but-an-idiot-thinks-you're-gone-for-good-type dead, I mean like ripped-into-bite-size-chunks-and-fed-to-the-freaking-dog-type-dead. Hell, years after the fact, the NYPD is probably still occasionally finding pieces of this guy.
In 1985 or so, circa the release of this comic, the joke around the Marvel Bullpen was that it was only a matter of time until some "brilliant" writer brought Skip into continuity as a supervillain: "The Malevolent MOLESTO!!!" Frankly, even though it's never happened, I think it becomes more likely with each passing year...

Hmm...Molesto...Mephisto...Holy crap! It appears the devil has been wanting to get his hands on Peter for a long time now. Of course, Mephisto's desire to take Peter's "rarest love of all" now makes a little more sense.

Of course, this is only the first time Peter Parker was raped. After this, there was the Clone Saga, and One More Day.

I'd cheer for anyone who changes Skip into Joe Q. in this comic, because if ANYBODY touched Peter inappropriately, it's Joe Q..

Come on! Joe Q's ONLY mistake EVER was One More Day.

look at Peter he wanted it

What.

That would bother me less if it wasn't so creepy and Skip didn't look like an old creepy molester. I am having horrible Different Strokes flashbacks. Peter Parker should so have a secret (consensual, otherwise that would be gross) homosexual experience. I bet someone has written some slash fanfiction about that already. That would be hilarious

I have it on good authority that The Black Cat is really a dude.

Marvel does have plenty of gay characters, but I think Skip might be the only molester they've openly written about... Unless you count Namor's constantly kidnapping and hinting at sexually assaulting Sue Storm-Richards. Oh, yeah, and Tigra got beat up and practically raped by The Hood (they hinted, but weren't explicit about it).

I'd love to see a series featuring an extremely horny, gay Hulk. We had Grey Hulk, Green Hulk, and Red Hulk. Maybe they need to whip out Pink Hulk for some "HULK WANT MANLOVE!" action

I guess you'd end up calling that "Hulk Slash!"

...Something else to consider is this: these stories came out during a period where Jim Shooter was claiming "There are no gays in the Marvel Universe", something writers *and* fans really got pissed about, and reportedly Marvel's HR department may have called Shooter in on the carpet about it. Seems Shooter's somewhat of a homophobe, although if the reports over the years are true, he may feel justified because the "shower scene" in The Incredible Hulk was reportedly based on something that actually happened to either Shooter himself or a close friend at a YMCA they were members of shortly after they got out of High School.

LOL! This was why I just collected Transformers and G.I. Joe comics in the early/mid 80's!

@ Bill

You must have missed the issue where Megatron shows Optimus the owner's manual to the 1982 DeLorean DMC-12, then tried to touch his oil cap. Pretty much the whole reason the Autobots are fighting the Decepticons in the first place.

I am very disturbed, indeed. A anti-porno (Girlie sounds the stuff Stan Lee reads when was a kid) and homophobic comic from Marvel. Hey, they are two guys, watching porno. Touching is the next natural thing, bunch of sissies!!!