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You can help Multiversal Omnipedia by expanding it. Much of Oscorp Tower was destroyed during his rampage. Oscorp's electrical engineer, Max Dillon was placing a large wire into a vent when it suddenly malfunctioned and electrocuted him.
He fell through several platforms into a tank full of genetically altered electric eels. They stung him multiple times until the tank shattered. Max emerged with blue, glowing skin. He had been turned into a living electrical capacitor. Donning himself Electro, he stumbled out of Oscorp into the streets. Oscorp Tower is the colossal skyscraper that stands as headquarters for the industry. It is unique in design and resembles Oscorp's latest technology. Inside holds many fancy rooms and facilities; its work areas, where loyal employees and even interns can concentrate on their research, its robotics lab department, cross-species facilities, homerooms, the BioLab and security areas.
The robotics lab department was previously owned by Doctor Alistaire Smythe until his death. Now, the lab is off limits until further notice. The cross-species facilities are located in few places within Oscorp, and are all in ruins as of now since the horrific outbreak; tubes shattered, doors ripped open, walls torn down, etc. The following flash-back sequence from Amazing Spider-Man refers to Osborn's "control of [his] chemical company".
The reason I included this panel is to illustrate the seemingly forgotten aspect of the electronics portion of Osborn's holdings, which was there during his earliest appearances.
Recall that a similar amount of neglect was seen in Amazing Spider-Man The following sequence of panels from Amazing Spider-Man is chock full of information regarding Norman Osborn's business empire, so much so that I'm going to enumerate it for simplicity sake. Osborn Manufacturing seems to be the centerpiece of Osborn's holdings during this era, implying that chemical production was the chief revenue producer for the company. The first panel has a sign that reads Osborn Corporation , keep that in mind because that will be important later on.
Also, the fact that an Osborn Corporation even exists implies that there are other subsidiaries outside of the Osborn Manufacturing. What were those other subsidiaries? It is not very clear The second panel has an address listed as 'One Osborn Plaza', so the complex which housed the Osborn Corporation was probably pretty large and it paid homage to the man who brought the company to prominence.
Also in that second panel there is a large statue that looks to be interlocking letters 'O' and 'S'. A similar artistic rendition of the Osborn company emblem will appear again in the Spiderverse. In the last panel Harry refers to 'Osborn stock', it may be safe to assume that he is not referring to Osborn Manufacturing stock, rather the stock of a larger corporation This is the earliest evidence I could find for the use of the name Osborn Industries, Inc. If there is any one particular comic book that embodies the inconsistent and confusing history regarding the name of Norman Osborn's company, it would undoubtedly be Spectacular Spider-Man The cover shown below alongside a zoomed-in section features Spider-Man and Harry Osborn fighting off machinery from Harry's factory that had seemingly come alive.
The sign in the background clearly displays the name Osborn Chemical Company. However, inside the book you'll see a different story rather, a different sign. The sign in the panel below reads ' Osborn Chemical Corp. How is a mistake like that possible? Sal Buscema was both the cover and interior artist for that book, so it is not like there was two different artists who were simply out of sync for the book. Certainly the biggest screw-up to date in this little saga The following panel is also from Spectacular Spider-Man and I'm including it to show that it was not simply a typo in the above panel, the sign once again reads ' Osborn Chemical Corporation '.
That duo was rather respectful to continuity for the most part throughout their shared work, so I would expect the use of the Lee-era Osborn Chemical Company from them. The panel below is from Web of Spider-Man The creators of that trade paperback did not use the name Osborn Chemical Company , which was used throughout that story.
Instead they referred to the company as Oscorp. Why does that matter? Well, this compilation was published in July and the shift to Oscorp had occurred just two months prior with Brian Michael Bendis' Pulse 2 , which was the first in-story use of Oscorp Four years after Conway's story in Web of , J. DeMatteis presented the first in-panel use of Osborn Industries when Spidey inadvertently came across an old and condemned!
The panel below is from Spectacular Spider-Man Annual Although it should be noted that Busiek added the ' Inc. The panel below is from Untold Tales of Spider-Man 1. It's not clear what company name they preferred ie, Osborn what?
In , the company name of Oscorp is used for the first time, however it occurs in the cartoon, not a comic book. Soon after, a comic book series based on the tv show called Spider-Man Adventures later titled The Adventures of Spider-Man which debuted around the same time as the cartoon also used the company name of Oscorp. The panel below is from Spider-Man Adventures 3 Feb This represents the first comic book usage of the name Oscorp Spider-Man Unmasked was an Official Handbook-esque book that was published in This guide steered clear of providing a name for Norman's company but it did use the infamous moniker ruthless industrialist that has become synonymous with Norman Osborn over the years.
Greenberg used Osborn Industries as the name of the company that Stromm and Osborn co-created which is technically a retcon. Considering the amount of information and continuity-straightening that came out of that one-shot this is a pretty solid endorsement for Osborn Industries.
Greenberg also included the infamous Multivex Corporation as a 'pet company' set up through Osborn Industries Busiek must have missed that one-shot because he kept things status quo during his flashback story in the Untold Tales of Spider-Man Annual , utilizing the title Osborn Chemical Company yet again. This is not surprising since Greenberg collaborated with Mackie throughout this era. It was unclear as to whether this was a purely educational facility or a true research laboratory.
Mackie continued to prefer the title Osborn Industries during this era of the Spiderverse as seen below in panel from Peter Parker Spider-Man John Byrne followed suit with his work in Amazing Spider-Man , also using Osborn Industries as the corporation's title.
At this point in Spider-history, it was clear that Osborn Industries was becoming the front-runner as the preferred name for Norman's company. Byrne continued to favor Osborn Industries as Amazing Spider-Man Volume 1 came to a close and a new volume with new numbering began in The panel below is from Amazing Spider-Man V2 2.
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