I assume that when he joined the New Avengers and Stark might have helped him set up a shell company to deposit funds into and then get that money transferred to a Swiss banking account Parker has access to with a complicated paper trail
Well if I've shown off my powers before in public, how about using those in the bank. Guy will probably understand when I'm walking on the ceiling and spraying webs on him
Astro City had a great issue about how hard it is to convict anyone of a crime when they can just say 'a shapeshifter did it'.
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I'm pretty sure the issue makes it clear that that defense only worked once, especially since it was right after the Silver Agent had been wrongfully given the death penalty and the jury was spooked. Afterwards they quickly passed new laws and judges set new precedents to make it a lot harder to pull that kind of stunt off.
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They also have to do much more intense police work; they mentioned in that issue that if that case would have happened again they would have pumped the guy's stomach to prove he was really eating at the restaurant the murder happened in.
At that point in time, Spidey was a TV celebrity, most people probably assumed his powers were just technology and that anyone could've stolen the costume from the TV studio and demonstrated those same powers.
Is this real though or is it a meme from boomer movies and sitcoms.
Maybe it was a thing banks allowed back in white america times, I can’t imagine it still works.
Isn't he like 15 here?
Anyways these panels are from the fricking 60s I'm calling bullshit on regulations being that strict on just Cashing a valid check
>Anyways these panels are from the fricking 60s I'm calling bullshit on regulations being that strict on just Cashing a valid check
One regulation that has NOT changed is needing a bank acount with a name that matches the check.
I mean, I guess, but people give superheroes a pass on that as long as they kill or whatever.
"Spider-Man commits tax fraud" is a bit harder to swallow.
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Marvel Adventures had an "Avengers have to pay taxes" issue. I think the only people who were up on their taxes were Stark, because he can just pay people to do it for him, Captain America, because of course he is, and Hulk, only because he gets paid in barrels or peanut butter and they haven't figured out how they should tax that yet.
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>and Hulk, only because he gets paid in barrels or peanut butter and they haven't figured out how they should tax that yet.
I love comic books so much.
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Well, it was Marvel Adventures. Those were usually way better than other comics of the time.
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For campgays I suppose
They were fun sometimes but a lot of the time they were felt way too dumbed-down
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It was in the 2000s. The alternative was mostly edgy crap.
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>I love comic books so much.
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Best part of the issue, with a close second being Spider-Man harassing a "sovereign citizen" to pay his taxes until he does because it beats having to potentially dealing with that shit every year.
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Superman also had an issue where he went up against an IRS agent.
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taxes are theft, superman is a libertarian
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I think they did it twice. As in, not a reprint, they told the same basic story with a different IRS agent OC twice.
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Yeah, a lot of stories from that era were remakes of older stories.
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It's not even "the same basic story", it's largely the same script.
>and Hulk, only because he gets paid in barrels or peanut butter and they haven't figured out how they should tax that yet.
I love comic books so much.
Marvel Adventures had an "Avengers have to pay taxes" issue. I think the only people who were up on their taxes were Stark, because he can just pay people to do it for him, Captain America, because of course he is, and Hulk, only because he gets paid in barrels or peanut butter and they haven't figured out how they should tax that yet.
They actually do have rules on this. But it's...sticky.
>with great power comes great respodnbnfbjefb
NO, WRONG. FRICK SAKE. With great power there must also come great responsibility. The wording matters. You can tell any moron writer moviegay by those who get the quote wrong. Jesus frick you only need to read ONE spider-man issue, the first one to understand this basic ass shit.
Back when I read this as a kid I wondered why Peter wouldn't just threaten him to give him money. I didn't see anything wrong with it back then since he's a good guy. And I suppose it wouldn't be morally wrong, but in principle, it'd be wrong to make an exception in how the system works for some guy.
Well, it would be wrong to threaten him with violence for not cashing it. Threatening him with legal action is a different story though. The smart thing to do would be to take She-Hulk to the bank with you.
>yeah I cash spideys checks for him haha he's my good friend >wtf no don't kidnap me or my family
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During the Parker Industries era he was open about funding and equipping Spider-Man so that ship has sailed.
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...And also got his brains blown out by Deadpool because someone put a bounty out on his head to spite Spider-Man due to Peter's explanation of funding him, which was precisely the reason he kept a very low profile for so many years.
Honestly, Reminds me of when he tried selling his web formula to a rich mogul, only to be thrown out on his ass for the fact Peter said it wasn't 100% permanent despite informing them he could make it longer-lasting if they wanted. Some of these storylines, it feels less like the consequences of Peter's attempts to make ends meet coming to a logical outcome in biting him in the ass and more a punishment for daring to try to get out of barebones poverty unlike the Iron Man funded Avengers or the explicitly-working-for-pay Heroes for Hire.
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>Some of these storylines, it feels less like the consequences of Peter's attempts to make ends meet coming to a logical outcome in biting him in the ass and more a punishment for daring to try to get out of barebones poverty unlike the Iron Man funded Avengers or the explicitly-working-for-pay Heroes for Hire.
Aka the plot keeping towards the status quo and never progressing the character.
I'm pretty sure that villains have come after Peter and his family because of his tenuous connection to Spider-Man; imagine what being directly connected to him would cause. Being on his payroll won't help.
The real question is, why didn't Spider-Man just ask to be paid in cold, hard cash? Plus, while donating to charity arguably does help people, taking down Kingpin and other villains out to commit mass acts of terror is also equally helpful. It's always annoying when people ask 'why doesn't Batman just donate to charity' and conveniently exist that Poison Ivy is plotting to kill millions and only Batman can stop her to save their lives. Villains are a real, tangible threat in the Marvel universe, up there with poverty or disease.
He just took cash from then on as this anon, mentions. It was the same when he was commissioned to make the spider-buggy. The company even threatened to sue him because he built the prototype car and then left it at the bottom of the Hudson or some shit.
Gage brought it up during the Avengers Academy days.
This is dumb. I dont think people realize just how poor Peter was. He wasn't able to afford to make rent/pay for college in NYC even with MJ working as an actress, much less pay for an annual LLC fee on top of the thousands it would take to make shell companies, etc.
Direct Despoits a thing.
Generally you make a check out TO CASH.
Most banks, if not all, require you to have an existing account, and considering they wouldn't give you an account without your social/ID etc.
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During his early college years Norman paid for the apartment and he had a scholarship.
>while donating to charity arguably does help people
donating to charity 99.9% of the time just means you are giving the money to the rich white person sitting on the board running the charity. Charities are scams were nearly all of the money just goes to the charity itself for the salaries of the people working there and the for "administrative expenses" i.e. the pockets of the people running the charity. You'd literally help more people out by just taking a handful of cash and throwing it into the street
It's just a joke about changing times. In the 60s, if you wanted to know anything about laws you had to go to places and read them. These kids could just look up all the info they want on the internet.
It depends on how you interpret it, it can either be 'Man, Peter is so dumb amirite?' or 'Teacher is exasperated with his smart-ass kids and can't be bothered to explain why or has just been blind-sided by the question'.
Can't he donate to charity and fight Electro? How does killing African mosquitoes stop a super villain from causing massive property damage and killing people? Do they think flushing 50 years of Spidey's heroics and tragedies down the toilet is funny?
He could do it as Peter. When Foswell was trailing him, in order to throw him off, Peter play-acted like he and Spider-Man had come to an arrangement where Spider-Man gets half the money from his photos.
I always loved gags like this, it really makes Spider-Man feel like a slight parody of Superheroes despite you know being probably one of the most famous superheroes ever.
>Create bank account
Ask for money to be equally split between everyone who made a new account this year >Spiderman could be peter >Could also be one of the other thousands of people with an account
I assume that when he joined the New Avengers and Stark might have helped him set up a shell company to deposit funds into and then get that money transferred to a Swiss banking account Parker has access to with a complicated paper trail
What's the correct response in this situation?
Well if I've shown off my powers before in public, how about using those in the bank. Guy will probably understand when I'm walking on the ceiling and spraying webs on him
Not impossible to replicate if you're really dedicated.
How does security even work in a world of telepath, shapeshifters and clones.
Astro City had a great issue about how hard it is to convict anyone of a crime when they can just say 'a shapeshifter did it'.
I'm pretty sure the issue makes it clear that that defense only worked once, especially since it was right after the Silver Agent had been wrongfully given the death penalty and the jury was spooked. Afterwards they quickly passed new laws and judges set new precedents to make it a lot harder to pull that kind of stunt off.
They also have to do much more intense police work; they mentioned in that issue that if that case would have happened again they would have pumped the guy's stomach to prove he was really eating at the restaurant the murder happened in.
if there's a check to "spiderman" and there's a guy crawling around on the ceiling and shooting webs, you can give him the money
At that point in time, Spidey was a TV celebrity, most people probably assumed his powers were just technology and that anyone could've stolen the costume from the TV studio and demonstrated those same powers.
Begin lecture on why social security numbers are a bad form of ID
Generally you make a check out TO CASH.
Is this real though or is it a meme from boomer movies and sitcoms.
Maybe it was a thing banks allowed back in white america times, I can’t imagine it still works.
Yes, it still works. But most people don't use checks anymore.
Rape.
Peter is one of those people who's brilliant at science but a complete moron when it comes to anything else.
Isn't he like 15 here?
Anyways these panels are from the fricking 60s I'm calling bullshit on regulations being that strict on just Cashing a valid check
Do you have ANY idea of how money worked before the internet?
>Anyways these panels are from the fricking 60s I'm calling bullshit on regulations being that strict on just Cashing a valid check
One regulation that has NOT changed is needing a bank acount with a name that matches the check.
Well he is a Mets fan.
He wasn't always, he's been flanderized something fierce the last 20 years.
Post-OMD Peter has become an unconfident manchild, but Ditko Peter was a hothead who made mistakes all the time, not brilliant all the time.
He's a high school student who has never had a job before. This was literally the first paycheck he ever earned in his entire life.
Isn't that illegal?
So is vigilantism but OH LOOK AT THAT.
I mean, I guess, but people give superheroes a pass on that as long as they kill or whatever.
"Spider-Man commits tax fraud" is a bit harder to swallow.
Marvel Adventures had an "Avengers have to pay taxes" issue. I think the only people who were up on their taxes were Stark, because he can just pay people to do it for him, Captain America, because of course he is, and Hulk, only because he gets paid in barrels or peanut butter and they haven't figured out how they should tax that yet.
>and Hulk, only because he gets paid in barrels or peanut butter and they haven't figured out how they should tax that yet.
I love comic books so much.
Well, it was Marvel Adventures. Those were usually way better than other comics of the time.
For campgays I suppose
They were fun sometimes but a lot of the time they were felt way too dumbed-down
It was in the 2000s. The alternative was mostly edgy crap.
>I love comic books so much.
Best part of the issue, with a close second being Spider-Man harassing a "sovereign citizen" to pay his taxes until he does because it beats having to potentially dealing with that shit every year.
Superman also had an issue where he went up against an IRS agent.
taxes are theft, superman is a libertarian
I think they did it twice. As in, not a reprint, they told the same basic story with a different IRS agent OC twice.
Yeah, a lot of stories from that era were remakes of older stories.
It's not even "the same basic story", it's largely the same script.
Isn't that cheating the public?
No. Only if you don't pay taxes.
They actually do have rules on this. But it's...sticky.
>with great power comes great respodnbnfbjefb
NO, WRONG. FRICK SAKE. With great power there must also come great responsibility. The wording matters. You can tell any moron writer moviegay by those who get the quote wrong. Jesus frick you only need to read ONE spider-man issue, the first one to understand this basic ass shit.
frick
Back when I read this as a kid I wondered why Peter wouldn't just threaten him to give him money. I didn't see anything wrong with it back then since he's a good guy. And I suppose it wouldn't be morally wrong, but in principle, it'd be wrong to make an exception in how the system works for some guy.
Well, it would be wrong to threaten him with violence for not cashing it. Threatening him with legal action is a different story though. The smart thing to do would be to take She-Hulk to the bank with you.
What's she gonna do?
Suck-off the teller?
Just the teller?
Anon, She-Hulk is a lawyer. Spidey brings her for legal counsel. So obviously she's going to suck him off, that's her job.
get a driver's license they give those to just about anyone these days :^)
>spider-man pretends to be an illegal immigrant to get a California license
>Yo spiderman and yo wanto driver license!
Gage brought it up during the Avengers Academy days.
NANI?
I bet gage felt really smart writing this but it falls apart really really quickly if you think about it even with 0 knowledge on the subject
Explain.
Shell companies don't make your name dissappear. It's literally just "I'm behind 7 proxies bro!" And
And?
>yeah I cash spideys checks for him haha he's my good friend
>wtf no don't kidnap me or my family
During the Parker Industries era he was open about funding and equipping Spider-Man so that ship has sailed.
...And also got his brains blown out by Deadpool because someone put a bounty out on his head to spite Spider-Man due to Peter's explanation of funding him, which was precisely the reason he kept a very low profile for so many years.
Honestly, Reminds me of when he tried selling his web formula to a rich mogul, only to be thrown out on his ass for the fact Peter said it wasn't 100% permanent despite informing them he could make it longer-lasting if they wanted. Some of these storylines, it feels less like the consequences of Peter's attempts to make ends meet coming to a logical outcome in biting him in the ass and more a punishment for daring to try to get out of barebones poverty unlike the Iron Man funded Avengers or the explicitly-working-for-pay Heroes for Hire.
>Some of these storylines, it feels less like the consequences of Peter's attempts to make ends meet coming to a logical outcome in biting him in the ass and more a punishment for daring to try to get out of barebones poverty unlike the Iron Man funded Avengers or the explicitly-working-for-pay Heroes for Hire.
Aka the plot keeping towards the status quo and never progressing the character.
they already got him anon
rip anon
I'm pretty sure that villains have come after Peter and his family because of his tenuous connection to Spider-Man; imagine what being directly connected to him would cause. Being on his payroll won't help.
The real question is, why didn't Spider-Man just ask to be paid in cold, hard cash?
Plus, while donating to charity arguably does help people, taking down Kingpin and other villains out to commit mass acts of terror is also equally helpful. It's always annoying when people ask 'why doesn't Batman just donate to charity' and conveniently exist that Poison Ivy is plotting to kill millions and only Batman can stop her to save their lives. Villains are a real, tangible threat in the Marvel universe, up there with poverty or disease.
>The real question is, why didn't Spider-Man just ask to be paid in cold, hard cash?
He did that every time he was mercing for Silver Sable.
He just took cash from then on as this anon, mentions. It was the same when he was commissioned to make the spider-buggy. The company even threatened to sue him because he built the prototype car and then left it at the bottom of the Hudson or some shit.
This is dumb. I dont think people realize just how poor Peter was. He wasn't able to afford to make rent/pay for college in NYC even with MJ working as an actress, much less pay for an annual LLC fee on top of the thousands it would take to make shell companies, etc.
Most banks, if not all, require you to have an existing account, and considering they wouldn't give you an account without your social/ID etc.
During his early college years Norman paid for the apartment and he had a scholarship.
>while donating to charity arguably does help people
donating to charity 99.9% of the time just means you are giving the money to the rich white person sitting on the board running the charity. Charities are scams were nearly all of the money just goes to the charity itself for the salaries of the people working there and the for "administrative expenses" i.e. the pockets of the people running the charity. You'd literally help more people out by just taking a handful of cash and throwing it into the street
Frick off commie
no no he's right just dump money on low income streets like robin hood
This guy thinks he's got it all figured out. Depressing.
You're racist
It's just a joke about changing times. In the 60s, if you wanted to know anything about laws you had to go to places and read them. These kids could just look up all the info they want on the internet.
It depends on how you interpret it, it can either be 'Man, Peter is so dumb amirite?' or 'Teacher is exasperated with his smart-ass kids and can't be bothered to explain why or has just been blind-sided by the question'.
Can't he donate to charity and fight Electro? How does killing African mosquitoes stop a super villain from causing massive property damage and killing people? Do they think flushing 50 years of Spidey's heroics and tragedies down the toilet is funny?
She's just one of those effective altruists.
Don't you need identification to register an LLC?
He could do it as Peter. When Foswell was trailing him, in order to throw him off, Peter play-acted like he and Spider-Man had come to an arrangement where Spider-Man gets half the money from his photos.
Direct Despoits a thing.
I always loved gags like this, it really makes Spider-Man feel like a slight parody of Superheroes despite you know being probably one of the most famous superheroes ever.
what
I don't think so
What if Spider-Man had an Onlyfans and just made videos of himself swinging around and saving people?
>Has Peter's inability to cash a check as spider-man ever been resolved?
Not to the extent Green Lantern's inability has.
In today's world he might be able to get paid on cryptocurrency and not be instantly identified as Peter Parker. Keyword might.
Yes.
>Create bank account
Ask for money to be equally split between everyone who made a new account this year
>Spiderman could be peter
>Could also be one of the other thousands of people with an account