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Daily Bugle

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Universe
Marvel Universe

Location
New York, New York

Builder/Designer
Unknown

Owner
Currently J. Jonah Jameson; formerly William Walter Goodman, Norman Osborn, Thomas Fireheart

Points of Interest
Rebuilt after being bombed by the Green Goblin; destroyed a second time

First Appearance
Amazing Spider-Man #1 (1963)

Founded in 1897, the Daily Bugle was purchased a few decades after its inception by businessman William Walter Goodman, who prized selfless human achievement above all else and who lent his name to the building the newspaper called home. In 1939, when the android Human Torch and Namor the Sub-Mariner began alternately terrorizing and protecting the city, Bugle photographer Phil Sheldon immortalized many of their exploits. Following Captain America's debut in late 1940, Bugle reporter Jeff Mace became one of his earliest imitators as the costumed Patriot, although he was just as often active against evil as a correspondent alongside Mary Morgan and freelancer Jack Casey, while C. Thomas Sites and others chronicled the battlefield missions of the Howling Commandos.

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J. Jonah Jameson, publisher
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Joe Robertson, editor-in-chief


In later decades, the Bugle's destiny became inexorably linked with that of J. Jonah Jameson, known for uncovering secret details of the Invaders' wartime missions. Jameson, inspired by the past Bugle editor Walter "Old Man" Jameson (often mistakenly assumed to be Jonah's father) mimicking his signature flat-top and mustache. He rose through the Bugle's ranks as copy boy, reporter, editor and editor-in-chief, championing civil rights and opposition to organized crime. Some twenty years ago, having already emptied his inheritance to buy the Bugle corporation years before, he purchased the entire Goodman Building housing the newspaper to which he had dedicated his life.

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Betty Brant, reporter
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Peter Parker, former photographer
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Ben Urich, former reporter


In recent years, Jameson's obsession with Spider-Man has shaped the Bugle's perspective on superheroes, centered on suspicion toward masked vigilantes and superhuman feats upstaging straightforward human heroism. The Bugle's offices have been the sites of Spider-Man's battles with Doctor Octopus, the Fly, the Scorpion, the Vulture and many others. The Bugle building has been twice destroyed during such battles, once by Graviton and once by the Green Goblin, but it has been rebuilt each time to remain as active as ever. Despite lukewarm attempts to cover superhuman activity more objectively in its short-lived Pulse feature, the Bugle formally supported the recent passage of the Superhuman Registration Act, but the exposure of longtime Bugle photographer Peter Parker as Spider-Man has undermined the paper's credibility.

Daily Bugle Staff

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  • Edwin E. Edwards (photographer), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #11 (2002)
  • Ethan Edwards (Virtue/Tiller/Moral-Man) (former reporter), Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #13 (2005)
  • Ken Ellis (reporter), Web of Spider-Man #118 (1994)
  • Samuel Exmore (apprentice editor), Peter Parker: Spider-Man #11 (1999)

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  • Jeffrey Haight (photographer), Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure #1 (2003)
  • Toni Harris (apprentice editor), Peter Parker: Spider-Man #1 (1999)
  • Matt Hickville (reporter), Marvel Vision #21 (1997)
  • Edward Holt (purchasing officer), Punisher War Journal #15 (1990)

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  • Matt Idelson (reporter), Marvel Vision #8 (1996)
  • Max Igoe (sports writer), Peter Parker: Spider-Man/Elektra '98 (1998)

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  • Peter Parker (Spider-Man) (former photographer), Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
  • Jan Parsec (reporter), Marvel Vision #25 (1998)
  • Jess Patton (reporter, deceased), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #1 (2001)
  • Victor Paunchilito (reporter, columnist), Amazing Spider-Man #223 (1981)
  • Victor Pei (assistant photo editor), Spider-Man #33 (1993)
  • Suzie Pelkey (receptionist), Daredevil #242 (1987)
  • Robert Pitney (typesetter), Omega the Unknown #5 (1976)

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  • Gus Qualen (photographer), Amazing Spider-Man #230 (1982)

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  • Angela Yin (photographer), Spectacular Spider-Man #215 (1994)

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Contributors: MikeFichera, Acotilletta2, Zeraphyne and Wezqu
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