“Jessica Drew is the daughter of Jonathan Drew, research partner to Dr. Herbert Edgar
Wyndham. When young Jessica suffered uranium poisoning in 1931, Dr. Drew was forced
to inject her with his untested spider serum and seal her in a genetic accelerator.
In stasis for decades, her aging greatly slowed, she awoke with no memories of her
own past.”
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