The Jameson Family Tree

For the latest installment of MC2 Family Trees, I present the storied Jameson Family. J Jonah Jameson's family has something of a potted and potentially contradictory history, but luckily for you (and me!) this series only covers characters introduced in the MC2 universe or comics published before it branches off from the main Marvel universe. So I don't have to deal with how Jameson has two daddies but maybe one of them is also his uncle/step-father too....

Both J Jonah Jameson and his son John first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #1. Something that required some digging to discover was the identity of Jonah's first wife and John's mother, Joan. At first I assumed she hadn't been seen or mentioned prior to Spider-Man's Tangled Web #20, which would have rendered her non-canon for the purposes of this list. But as it turns out she makes a brief appearance way back in Amazing Spider-Man #190 where we learn she died at sometime after John graduated high school. Jonah later meets Dr Marla Madison in Amazing Spider-Man #162 when he employs her to create a new Spider-Slayer. The two would become romantically involved and eventually marries in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #18.

As for John Jameson, the famous astronaut and part-time Man-Wolf would go on to marry Dr Ashley Kafka, the head Psychologist  at the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane during John's stint as Head of Security. Isn't it interesting that the Jameson men seem to end up with intelligent women who have doctorates?  For the purposes of being thorough, I've included Dr Ashley Kafka's family; her younger sister Norma who was born disabled and was rejected by their mother for her appearance (Spectacular Spider-Man #196). Finally, John and Ashley's son, Jack Jameson (better know as JJ) would go on to become the misunderstood hero The Buzz. But you already knew that, didn't you?

Until I become truly stumped by a family tree (huh, you get it, huh, huh?!), I remain

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