of three candidates - along with Betty Brant and Flash Thompson - who is bitten by the radioactive spider which gave Spider-Man his powers. Equipped with a rocket pack, and upon his father's relentless prompting for the sake of his paper's publicity, John begins to fight crime as "Spider-Jameson". However, when he attempts to save an astronaut from his crashing capsule (the same situation from which he was saved by Spider-Man in mainstream continuity), his rocket pack runs out of fuel, but Jameson heroically sacrifices his life by using his own body to cushion the capsule's impact. The death of his son makes Jonah Jameson re-think his relentless attitudes, and he subsequently dedicates The Daily Bugle to the promotion of superheroes, not their persecution. In other media Television John Jameson appears in the 1990s Spider-Man series, voiced by Michael Horton. In the three-part episode "The Alien Costume", he unwittingly brings the Venom symbiote to Earth and is attacked by the Rhino, who causes his shuttle to crash-land while securing a mineral sample. After being hospitalized, the Shocker abducts John to bring Spider-Man and John's father J. Jonah Jameson to an abandoned church. While Spider-Man fights Shocker, Jameson gets his son out. John Jameson / Man-Wolf appears in Spider-Man Unlimited, with John Payne voicing the former and Scott McNeil providing the latter's vocal effects. While traveling into space, he crashes on Counter-Earth despite Spider-Man's efforts to stop Venom and Carnage. Following this, both John and the web-slinger join the human Resistance against the High Evolutionary and his Beastials. After being subjected to the High Evolutionary's experiments in the episode "Ill-Met By Moonlight", John gains the ability to transform into the Man-Wolf whenever he gets angry. John Jameson / Colonel Jupiter appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man, voiced by Daran Norris. In the season one episode "The Uncertainty Principle", John goes into space and nearly crash-lands after his shuttle is hit by a meteor storm. He is able to land safely, but unknowingly brings the Venom symbiote to Earth and is exposed to alien spores. By the season two episode, "Growing Pains", John became bigger, heavier, and stronger. As a result, Curt Connors develops a special containment suit for him while John's father, J. Jonah Jameson, convinces him to become the superhero Colonel Jupiter. Following an attack by Venom, who frames Spider-Man for it, the spores' effects increase, leading to John attacking the