Spider-Man Noir (Jonathan West)

## Spider-Man Noir

Shadow Spider (alternative media alias)

### Nicknames

The Wall-Crawler, The Human Bug, Wall-Crawling Do-Gooder, The Night Stalker, The Faceless Demon, Turtleneck.

## Biographical Information

### Affiliation

New York Institution Of Science, The Daily Bugle, Dickson's Butcher Shop, Web Warriors

### Occupation

Adventurer, detective, private investigator, vigilante; formerly photographer, reporter

### Base Of Operations

New York City, New York (during the Great Depression)

## Additional Information

### Creators

David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico

### Wiki Author

DuttPanda

**Jonathan West**, also known as **Spider-Man Noir**, alternatively labelled as **The Spider-Man**or the **Shadow Spider,**is a Web Warrior from an alternative universe, with similar spider-powers as Peter Parker from the mainstream universe.
In his universe, the evolution of the Earth and time was a bit more slower. By the time it was the 1980's in Peter Parker's universe, it was still the 1940's era as we know in real life, for Jonathan West's universe, with the same, outdated technology, weird way of speaking, dapper suits, overwhelmed populations and economies post WWII, a Great Depression and the other workings of that older era that our non-fictional humanity has gone through.

Jonathan West was raised by his adoptive parents, Joel & Phoebe West after he was abandoned by his biological parents, his father going into war, and his mother just dissapearing after her husband never returned from the war and leaving him to start her life anew. West was starving in the streets until he was eventually taken in by an infertile couple who decided to raise him as their own. His real name is still not known, neither does he remember. West was raised with the belief of good triumphing over evil and was supportive of his step-parent's activism.

West tragically discovered the mutilated body of his adoptive father Joel, killed in retaliation by one of New York City's businessmen for organizing a strike on sweatshops. The murder of his uncle was organized by the Goblin, who was actually the underworld mob boss Vito Corleone. Vito was born a circus freak and was mistreated from the audience for his reptile-like skin disorder. This fueled his ambitions in earning his "respect" by becoming an underworld mob boss. He used a mask to hide his true appearance. Earning the name "the Goblin," he organized his group composing of former circus and carnival freak shows with their bizarre, yet dangerous talents into the Enforcers. The Goblin's reputation as a freelancer among New York City's politicians and businessmen caused him to regularly be hired to commit illegal acts, such as suppressing public protests and even acts of assassinations on public objectors.

Joel's death drove Jonathan's resolve to continue to seek justice. While helping May at a rally in a Hooverville, they encountered a violent response from the Enforcers. Fortunately, the two were saved by Ben Urich, a reputed journalist. Subsequently, Jonathan became Urich's protege for the Daily Bugle and explored the dire situation of New York City's denizens, especially those under the threat of the Goblin. After Jonathan mistakenly received a tip-off meant for Urich, he ventured to a warehouse where the Goblin’s men were unloading a shipment of stolen antiques and goods which were raided by mercenaries from exotic lands..

He accidentally unloads one of these shipments which contained resources from the exotic, mystic Savage Lands, which was an island in the Bermuda Triangle. In the box, an arachnid from the Savage Lands had slipped in. This arachnid evolved differently than most spiders due to natural evolution in adapting to the dangerous nature of the Bermuda Triangle area. This arachnid was extremely strong, a great adaptor to any circumstance and had abnormal strength and enhanced powers. This Savage Land spider bites Jonathan and passes on it's powers to Jonathan before dying. Freaking out and mutating into a superhuman with spider-like powers and organic webbing and the ability to adapt to any temperature or circumstance, he fights his way out of the warehouse against the Goblin's men and helps reallocate the stolen goods and resources to the police authorities while webbing the mercenaries up for arrest.

Eventually, he donned a mask and created a costume based on his adoptive father's World War I-era airman uniform and became the vigilante named the **Shadow Spider**, later dubbed as The Spider-Man. West soon confronted Vito Corleone to get him to give up his hold over the city, and as the mysteries deepened, he discovered horrible, horrible things about the people he trusted, his enemies and the city he loved, getting into a tangled web of conspiracies and lies, that he didn't even comprehend how deeply entrenched the systematic corruption behind the scenes were.

He faced off against many foes in later years, all vintage-alternate history variants of Peter Parker's own rogues gallery. Decades passed down the line, and he became a seasoned, infamous legend/urban myth of New York, people not even being sure if he existed. Due to the severity and danger of his work, he cut ties off with his loved ones and became a solitary, brooding, alcoholic caper detective on the side. He was also an important figure in the *Spider-Verse*event, teaming up with other Web Warriors across the multiverse, (some of whom even affectionately named him **Spider-Man Noir**) in order to dismantle the Inheritors.