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On Earth-78327, events diverged from Earth-616 during the faithful exhibition that found a spider bombarded with a massive dose of radiation. In this reality, astronaut John Jameson was in attendance, finding the experiments of interest and he was bitten by the irradiated spider. Witnessing the event, young high school student Peter Parker collected the dead spider for further examination.

When John was in the gym next, he was surprised to find that he was endowed with the proportionate abilities of a spider. With his father, Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson witnessing these displays, he encouraged his son to become a costumed super-hero, becoming Spider-Jameson the super-astronaut, fashioning a spider/space suit themed costume complete with jet pack. As John used his powers to fight crime, his father glowingly published his exploits in the Daily Bugle.

Some days later, Peter Parker came to the Daily Bugle looking for a job, and Jameson was reluctant to give one to him. Deciding to give him a chance to wow him by taking a spectacular picture of his son in action, Jameson dragged Parker along when Spider-Jameson flew off to stop an out of control space capsule that he was supposed to pilot if it weren't for his spider-powers. Despite his best efforts, John was not be able to prevent the capsule from crashing, however his superior strength allowed him to act as a cushion, saving the astronauts inside, at the cost of his life.

After John's death, his father had a statue erected in his honor in Central Park, and during the funeral ceremony, Peter Parker offered his condolences. Jameson told Peter to look at the statue for inspiration and Peter would get it: Realizing the root of John's powers came from the radioactive spider, Peter extracted some of the spider's radioactive venom and created a serum that endowed him with similar powers. Peter then developed a costume and took John Jameson's place as the costumed hero known as the Amazing Spider-Man.[1]

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