In Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3, Spider-Man is offered membership in The Avengers if he can capture the Hulk and return him to Avengers headquarters. Although he does manage to capture the Hulk, Spider-Man is suspicious of what the Avengers want with the green-skinned monster. Feeling pity for the creature, Spider-Man decides to release him instead of turning him over to the Avengers, thus failing the test.