Her "ether egg" weapons would detonate prematurely or have little effect, once even allowing the villain to escape. īluebird's zeal but lack of experience caused trouble for Spider-Man during fights with Scarlet Beetle and Electro. Angered, she threatened to blackmail him by revealing that he took Spider-Man pictures, but he undercut her by telling them himself. She asked Peter to take some Bugle pics of her doing some stunts, but Peter refused. Sally donned an eccentric blue-and-white costume and decided, with her aerobic skills, to become a superheroine. Peter admitted this but asked her not to tell their fellow Midtowners. Suffused with glee, Sally tried to get a permanent gig on the Bugle, but was told the photographer's job was filled - by Peter Parker. Spider-Man posed for a shot with an ecstatic Sally and Jason that the Bugle ran. The flash from Sally's camera roused Spidey from his hypnotic state, and a well-placed kick by the athletic young Sally took Electro by surprise long enough for Spidey to readjust his mask - which Electro had been preparing to remove - and defeat him. Sally and Jason tailed Spidey again, who was (unwillingly) working for Electro. Although their mission was a bust, Sally loved the thrill and became very smitten with the web-slinger when he touched her cheek just before leaving her and Jason with a warning to give it up. With fellow popular kid Jason Ionello, she attempted to cash in on a Daily Bugle contest offering a thousand dollars to a reader who brought in pictures of Spider-Man. She was an ambitious, thrill-loving girl who took blue ribbons in gymnastics. Thirty years later, writing for Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Kurt Busiek resurrected the one-note brunette from obscurity and gave her a background. Sally Avril was a fellow student of Peter Parker's at Midtown High who turned him down for a date, preferring Flash Thompson. Her "Bluebird" career was created by Busiek (scripts) and Olliffe (pencils) in 1996. Sally was a minor member of Flash Thompson's entourage, appearing in only one issue during the Silver Age. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Sally Avril first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962).
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