
Criminal Mind Games: Issue #6 has Spidey and the Human Torch working together to stop The Wizard, who left logic-based puzzles as clues to his next caper.

Flash Thompson ends up stopping him instead, revealing him to be a mentally ill Jason. Confronting Your Imposter: Averted, Spider-Man never bothers going after the fake Spider-Man running around Forest Hills committing minor vandalism to smear him, he's too busy dealing with Batwing.Continuity Nod: Lots, due to the nature of the series.Spidey realizes that Hawkeye is just being used by Black Widow and tries to convince him that he can be a hero. Call-Forward: One issue sees Spidey facing Hawkeye, who was an Iron Man villain at the time.Talking with Johnny Storm, who told him that Sally's death was her own fault, allowed Peter to let go of the guilt he had for her death.

However, Peter acting like Sally was a good person could be seen as him feeling guilty that he did not save her. But when she died in a car accident trying to take pictures of a Spider-Man fight, Peter acted like he lost a good friend and wonderful person in his life. She even tried to blackmail Peter when she became the superhero Bluebird to take her pictures. She mocked and bullied Peter Parker, she didn't care about his uncle's death, and when she saw Liz talking to him (she was offering him her condolences) she coaxed Liz away rather than offer her own sympathy to Peter. Sally Avril was a deeply unpleasant person. Ascended Extra: The Headsman first appeared in several issues of Untold Tales, before being promoted to a main character on Thunderbolts.Art Shift: The backup story of Untold Tales #-1, "Hydra and Go-Seek", was written and drawn by Fred Hembeck.That said, Chapter One was stricken from canon before even finishing and subsequently Untold Tales was back in canon.

Needless to say, Byrne simply disregarded most of what Busiek had done.

Untold Tales of Spider-Man provides examples of:
