I'm working on Marvel's Spider-Man in American comics.

Chapter 25 Detective Part 2
Back on the afternoon of the Joker and Spider-Man battle, Sheriff George Stacy stood at the doorway of an old Harlem apartment building and took a deep breath. The mottled walls were covered in cracks, like scars carved by this city on its underclass. He knocked, his knuckles leaving a soft, muffled sound on the chipped paint.

The person who opened the door was a gray-haired black woman, Herman Schultz's mother. Her eyes were like a pool of stagnant water, as if she had already surrendered to her fate.

"Mrs. Schultz, I believe you already know what your son has done."

George's voice was soft, but it cut through the silence like a knife. The house smelled of cheap coffee and old furniture. He hadn't taken the mother to the police station, but had chosen to visit the woman himself. His fellow officers were waiting downstairs, ready to respond to any potential shockwaves—but Hermann clearly had no intention of returning home.

"If you're asking about my son's whereabouts, officer, I know nothing." The old woman numbly rubbed the edge of her apron, her voice hoarse as sandpaper. "I never cared where they went, what they did, or whether they died on the street."

"My father died in a gang fight, my brother was shot, my oldest son was killed by the police, and my second son bled to death after being stabbed through the lung in an alley."

"…I'm so sorry, ma'am."

"I'm not blaming you, officer. This is the ordinary life of people living here." Mrs. Herman raised her head, her eyes cloudy. "But Herman is different. He always thinks he doesn't belong here. He's not one of us. We have no common language, officer. So do you think Herman will say something?"

George's pen hovered over his notepad. Outside the window, the sound of an ambulance siren came from afar, approaching, and then gradually faded away.

"I can't give you anything, Inspector." She turned and walked toward the stove, her back bent like a dead tree bent by the wind and snow. "Because Hermann... has already got everything he wanted."

George finally stopped talking. He saw a stack of money in the cupboard, closed the cupboard door silently, nodded, and left Herman's house.
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After school, sunlight slanted into the empty club room. The "Super Detective Agency," boasting over twenty members, now only had Jessica and three new recruits sitting around old desks. Peter suddenly pushed aside the old disc of "The ABC Murders" he had been planning to play and pulled out a USB drive.

"I have a new proposal. How about we try to catch Thriller?"

Jessica almost choked on her Coke. “You mean, four of us high school students are going to arrest a super criminal who can blow up an overpass?”

"We're just doing club activities! We're not actually going to arrest anyone offline. What could be more meaningful than deducing about a super villain on the run, my friends? Neither the Avengers nor the police have caught him!"

"We don't have many clues. How can we deduce this? Is it the exaggerated reports in the Daily Bugle?"

Facing Jessica's question, Peter of course smiled slightly.

"I have a friend, uh, whose father is the chief of the Midtown Police Department, in charge of this case." Peter made up a source for his information, which was not really a fabrication. Peter Parker might not be able to get any information about the horror case from Chief Stacy, but Spider-Man could.

Jessica, who didn't know the details, suddenly had her eyes lit up: "You mean... you can get the latest internal information from the police?"

“I don’t always get it, but this time I did.”

As Peter spoke, he plugged the USB drive into the computer. Then the blue light of the projector illuminated the screen, showing photos and related information about Hermann Schultz.

It's really outrageous. Before Peter faced Her-Man, he barely knew him. With all the Spider-Man villains, who cares about the Thriller? He didn't even get his own series or origin story in the 94 Spider-Man. He was a minor character with a crossbones gauntlet in the live-action movie. Even the Marvel Spider-Man video game, where he has the most screen time, not only didn't have an origin story, but he didn't even join the Sinister Six.

Even the chameleon has a solo episode! No horror!
If I read more comics, maybe I would really understand this unpopular character, but I was a Yunzi in my previous life. You might as well let me travel to the Three Kingdoms instead of Marvel...

Peter complained in his mind while playing the prepared PPT: "Thriller, real name Herman Schultz, a New Yorker, born in Harlem, Manhattan..."

"Wait, it says here that he only has a junior high school education."

Looking at the projected resume, Harry naturally asked, "Does this mean his equipment was made by someone else?"

"No, he made his own equipment, and his criminal partners confirmed that."

Facing the completely distrustful looks from his companions, Peter continued his explanation. "Although Herman only has a junior high school education, that was due to family reasons, which prevented him from attending school. He possesses a strong engineering background. Before becoming the Thriller, he had used a similar vibrational weapon and robbed the bank where he and Spider-Man fought, where he was defeated and arrested by Spider-Man."

Jessica immediately asked the next question: "When?"

"Inside the police station, he used a hairpin to pick the lock, knocked out an officer, stole his equipment and left the station."

After hearing this, several people were confused. They didn't know whether to say that the NYPD's ability was really poor or that this person was indeed a talent, who actually ran away after being arrested.

"Then he fought Spider-Man, and in the middle..."

"A week later."

Even Amadeus was shocked by this.

"You're telling me that a guy with only a junior high school education, freshly arrested, spent just a week modifying a set of equipment that could rival Spider-Man's?"

After hearing this, Amadeus couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Isn't the talent in New York a bit cheap..."

"Okay, we caught something." Jessica grasped something sharply: "Guys, after this guy escaped, he built a suit of armor and then ran to the bank where he was beaten up by Spider-Man. Didn't he commit any crimes in the meantime, and didn't he rob anything in this bank, Peter?"

"Uh, yeah."

Peter thought of this. "Actually, I heard from Sheriff George that he was calm at first after being arrested. But during the interrogation, the two police officers didn't believe him when they heard that he had made the equipment himself. They laughed at him and then he escaped from prison."

"So, we're dealing with a person with a megalomaniac, and perhaps also an inferiority complex. He has a low self-esteem because he doesn't have a good education and wants to get one, and he gets easily angered when others don't recognize his hard-earned inventions."

"That's why he went looking for Spider-Man." Harry understood: "He wanted revenge?"

"Or maybe he's just trying to prove himself." Jessica spread her hands after she finished speaking: "What's the point? The police can get their hands on these things."

"But the police haven't found him, and neither have the Avengers. There's no use knowing this," Harry explained. "We have to find him, or... lure him out."

"What if Spider-Man goes and provokes him?"

Peter suddenly brought it up in the silence of several people, and Jessica was the first to react: "What?"

"When Shocker fought Spider-Man, he was almost defeated. He destroyed the overpass, allowing Spider-Man to rescue people, and then he escaped. So, he didn't actually defeat Spider-Man, he just ran away." Peter rubbed his fingers. "If Spider-Man provokes him again, will it work?"

"perhaps……"

Harry rubbed his head. "But how are we going to notify Spider-Man?"

"There's a website where people express their gratitude to Spider-Man because no one knows who Spider-Man is." Peter smiled. "Maybe we can put our speculation on that website. If Spider-Man can see it, he'll know what to do."

I have finished watching Thunder Force, it is very good, but I have two questions.

First, something big happened in New York again. Spider-Man disappeared again and no one knew where he went.

Secondly, the Winter Soldier clearly believed that they were from Wakanda, and Captain America 4 also discovered adamantium, but in the end the American agent was still using his shield that was bent by the Sentinel, and he didn't even straighten it - he didn't even think about making a new one himself. Wasn't his shield made directly of ordinary metal?
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(End of this chapter)