Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 255
Release Date: August 1984
Highlights
- First appearance of Black Fox
- First appearance of Ivan Kragoff's Apartment
- Black Fox breaks into Red Ghost's apartment, intending it to be his last job before retirement, only to be caught by the villain's primate henchmen: Igor, Peotor, and Miklho
- Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 142, 143, Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 91, 92, and The Amazing Spider-Man 223
- We finally learn that Peter washes the symbiote suit the same way he cleaned his prior Spider-Man duds
- For the first time, we witness the symbiote suit making its way towards a sleeping Peter Parker
- Black Fox learns that he was set up intentionally to rob Red Ghost, specifically so the two could meet
- Red Ghost tells Black Fox that he and the Ghost's apes will go on a stealing spree to get him the funds he needs to finish his cosmicizer, and if Fox betrays him, he will die
- Mrs. Muggins wakes Peter up, and tells him she wants her rent
- When Peter asks her why she's up so late, she tells him it's 7:00 PM, making Peter realize he slept through the entire next day
- Peter tries to reach his Aunt May on the phone, only to be told by Nathan Lubensky that he blew his chance to make amends with her when he blew them off for lunch - Spider-Man was deep in battle with Jack O'Lantern, and missed meeting up with them
- Spider-Man heads out into the city for the day, and is shocked at how tired he is for having (supposedly) slept as long as he did
- Spider-Man picks up on the Hobgoblin's battle wagon location, but deviates from this to follow a series of police cars flying down the road with their sirens blaring
- Black Fox breaks into Eddie's Jewelry with the super apes, and while they're mid-theft, he flash bangs them, and makes his escape
- The apes catch up to Black Fox, but are stunned by Spider-Man, who appears on the scene - The primates choose to retreat
- After getting info from Black Fox, Spider-Man crashes Red Ghost's apartment
- Spider-Man tricks Miklho into charging into the cosmicizer, destroying it
- After waiting and waiting for Spider-Man to show up, Hobgoblin decides to move on with his plans, and destroys the spider tracer he found on his battle van
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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