Jessica Drew, Sick Kid
But then all that got chucked out the window when Marvel decided to make an actual Spider-Woman ongoing comic. The High Evolutionary was still part of Jessica’s origin, but now she wasn’t so much his experiment as she was one of her father’s. A scientist specialising in arachnid research, Jessica’s father Jonathan turned to his close friend Wyndham when a young Jessica had grown deeply ill from uranium poisoning. Desperate to save her life, Jonathan injected his daughter with one of his experimental spider-DNA serums, but with the incubation period too long to help her recover, Wyndham combined it with his genetic accelerator technology, a process that gave Jessica her super abilities but also decelerated her aging process, leaving her a teenager after a decade of treatment.
From here, her origin stayed relatively similar to what came before—Wyndham, now the High Evolutionary, experimented on his New Men, who ostracised Jessica for her human origins, and she fled to seek human civilization before being abducted by Hydra.
