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Background
Professor Cobbwell was a "brilliant man", a lecturer at a science institute
and "the most famous electronics expert in town". Looking for a bargain to
have new tubes put in his small radio (though, being an electronics expert, I
don't know why he didn't just do it himself), Cobbwell heard about
the "ridiculously cheap" prices at the Tinkerer Repair Shop. Sometime
after leaving his radio at the shop, Cobbwell visited his friend Mr.
Warren, science teacher at Midtown High School, and asked him to recommend a
student to help with an "urgent experiment" over the weekend. Warren
recommended Peter Parker.
Cobbwell asked Peter to go to the Tinkerer's shop and pick up his radio before
coming to his lab to work. Peter was surprised that the Tinkerer only charged
ten cents to replace the radio tubes but Cobbwell didn't think much of it.
While helping the Professor with his experiment (involving chemicals and
beakers even though Cobbwell was an electronics expert), Peter's spider-sense
reacted to some strange electrical impulses that he also noticed at the
Tinkerer's shop. When Cobbwell left the lab to lecture at the institute,
Peter opened the back of the radio and noticed equipment that shouldn't be
there. As Spider-Man, Peter infiltrated the Tinkerer's shop only to stumble
upon a scheme to spy on "important Earthlings" by an apparent group of aliens
using "electronic spy devices hidden in radios". After Spider-Man foiled
their plans, the "aliens" appeared to escape earth in a space ship.
Back at the lab, Peter opened the back of the radio and found it to now be
perfectly normal. Cobbwell entered and excitedly told Peter that he spotted a
space ship "fading into the atmosphere" as he was driving back from the
institute in his car. But believing that people "will think I'm a typical
absent-minded professor", Cobbwell decided he must have imagined it and got
back to work with Peter on his experiment. No word on how the urgent
experiments turned out but with Peter Parker as his assistant, Professor
Cobbwell undoubtedly did very well.
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