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A... gold pen?

A gold copy of the Daily Bugle?

I did read Secret Wars II but just the once and can't even remember the gold building incident. I remember the Beyonder choosing a copy of Steve Roger's body for himself (although later changing his hair black and curling it), the Spider-man sometimes villain Puma almost killing him but failing when he doubted himself, using Phoenix (Rachel Summers) to almost destroy the universe but learning from her and the X-Men about life and existence afterwards, and I remember the final battle and his "death" and becoming a new universe followed by the Molecule Man healing the Earth with Silver Surfer's help. The series had some good moments but I think they were more from other writers in crossovers than from the main series itself.

Was it a flagpole?

None of those three.

a pen?

No one got the precise item, so the next question goes to thoth lad, who knew it was something transformed into gold.

What was it, precisely? It was a gold notepad.

Ahhhh. nice remembering, thothy.

Curious, what happened to the notepad? Was Spidey able to sell it?

He was. He sold is through a fence (he followed the cat burglar Black Fox to him) for far less than market value in order to pay off Aunt May's boyfriend's gambling debt.

Ah, thanks!

Man... the things we do for love. He made Aunt May happy, at least.

He attempted to. But said boyfriend died very soon after. In fact, he ran up the gambling debt in the hopes of having a little something to leave for Aunt May because his time was near.

Man... that's heartbreaking okay, now I get why he did it.

Well, he didn't take it to help Aunt May's boyfriend. He took it because he saw the government rewarding the Kingpin with a few golden typewriters for his help in keeping a lid on the golden building and for his help in quickly disposing of it. Spider-Man got upset and decided that if the Kingpin can get something out of it, he should too. He spent years in the comics agonizing about it until the Aunt May's boyfriend situation presented itself.

Oh, no, I meant I understand why Aunt May's boyfriend ran up a big gambling debt. Wasn't talking about Spidey's motivation (he spent YEARS agonizing over it? what a long-running plot point!)

Sure was. It seemed to always be simmering in the background. It was an obvious solution (of sorts) to Peter's frequent money woes, but he kept feeling bad about having come by it dishonestly, and worried that if he showed up somewhere with a golden notepad, someone would start to dig into the truth. (Why he couldn't ask the Human Torch to melt it into an ingot I haven't the foggiest idea.)

They needed a source of angst as if he didn't have enough already.

Seeing his troubles, everyone suggested to Peter that he write his worries down.

Bump Thoth

Published in 1974, which three villains, calling themselves the Titanic Three, faced the Avengers when they accompanied Mantis to Vietnam?

Crimson Dynamo?

Titanium Man?

Both correct. One more to get.

Red Guardian?

Not the Red Guardian, but you're on the right sort of lines.

Mandarin?

Not the Mandarin, but even more on the right lines.