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The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #134 & Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #612

Only thing we know is that she’s got a son, rather early on in the comics said to be five years old. Well, it’s most likely her son, since Electro’s never mentioned any other sibling of his.

Makes me wonder if she’s older or younger?

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #422

He never mentioned a sister when talking about his past.

Most definitely just a continuity error — still fun to include it in my train of thought.

Either she moved out by the time of his father leaving little eight-year-old Max and his momma, which would make the sister about 10 years older… or she wasn’t even born yet!

Given Electro is maybe 30–45 years old throughout the comics, if she was older, his sister would have had her son in her late 30’s most likely. I’ll assume that in the panel he mentions his nephew, he is maybe somewhere in his mid-30’s. A bit unusual but not entirely unlikely to have a baby at that age. I would think she moved out due to the tensions between her parents and also due to her mother Anita’s controlling nature, thus Anita proclaiming Max was all she had once her husband left. The sister had broken off contact.

If Electro’s sister was younger, however, she’d either be the result of a pregnancy that happened right when father Jonathan left, or she happened due to another later partner of Anita.

This, however, is my less preferred idea of the sister, as Anita having another child would make little Max have a person to share his trauma with, someone to talk about the struggles with his mother with. Someone who understands him. His backstory would rather stick, if he was all alone in this with his mother concentrating all of her love and overprotectiveness only onto him. “You’re all I have”, and that’s the way it would always be. Besides, having a child leave you and never talk to you again would, in fact, strengthen the overprotectiveness Anita would have towards her second child. Works out just fine.

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #422

It’s interesting to imagine that once the mother died, and once Max had started existing as Electro, that he went out of his way to contact his sister again. All this time his mother had isolated him from everyone, suddenly she dies. Later he thinks he’s doing better when he finds his wife Norma through his job, but then she leaves him too. Out of nowhere he gets these superpowers and life starts looking different. Maybe that’s where he’d suddenly get this urge to contact his almost forgotten sister or so. Given he makes a reference to his nephew it would mean he knows how his sister is doing, after all. Not that they have a ton of contact though. Later, when he mentions her diabetes, he does speak of his sister in a past tense. That may be just me overanalysing it, but to be fair, I don’t think you’d want contact with your half-estranged brother who is a supervillain. I’d imagine he searched for contact shortly after he gained the powers along with some confidence and they met a few times, but his sister prefers no contact… for obvious reasons.

Okay now I’m just rambling but it’d be interesting to see these opposite outcomes of this failed family’s children. On one hand you have this independent older sister who moved out and away as soon as possible to escape her parents’ revolt and start her own, happy family. On the other hand you have this insecure younger brother, chained to his overprotective mother, not able to leave her due to her massive control in his life after the rest of her family had already left her.