The Amazing Spider-Man freelance photographer for "The Daily Bugle" under the bombastic editor-publisher J. Jonah Jameson to support himself and his frail Aunt May. At the same time, Peter dealt with public hostility towards Spider-Man and the antagonism of his classmates Flash Thompson and Liz Allan at Midtown High School, while embarking on a tentative, ill-fated romance with Jameson's secretary, Betty Brant. By focusing on Parker's everyday problems, Lee and Ditko created a groundbreakingly flawed, self-doubting superhero, and the first major teenaged superhero to be a protagonist and not a sidekick. Ditko's quirky art provided a stark contrast to the more cleanly dynamic
Daily Bugle Line" (which itself was on hard times) into the new "Daily Bugle". In the "Age of Apocalypse" timeline, the "Daily Bugle" is a clandestine paper run by humans meant to inform the public about the secrets of Apocalypse, here the tyrannical ruler of North America. This "Daily Bugle" is run by a Robbie Robertson, who is killed by a Brood-infected Christopher Summers, leaving the status of the paper unknown. The "Daily Bugle" appears in the Amalgam (DC & Marvel Comics) world. Similar to the mainstream "Bugle", employees include J. Jonah White, Tana Moon, Jack Ryder and Spider-Boy In the "Marvel