MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 147
Release Date: November 1984
Highlights
- First appearance of Black Abbott's Island Base
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 3, 257, and 258
- Spider-Man is swinging around the city when two jet craft soar past him, the one behind releasing a missile
- Spider-Man is able to stop the explosive, but in doing so gets knocked about by the concussion of the blast
- Human Torch saves Spider-Man from a fall, and then soars off to help the pilot of the craft being chased, which was just blown out of the sky
- Johnny Storm has moved out on his own to an apartment
- The mysterious Mr. Abbott shows up at Peter's apartment, and tries to use hypnotism on him to get Peter to join his special peace project
- Peter resists the attempt thanks to the warning of his spider sense, but decides to still go with him, pretending to be under the man's command
- In the hospital, the dying pilot tells Torch about Black Abbott, his plans, and his secret base
- Human Torch infiltrates the base, but is quickly overcome by a pair of guards
- Human Torch gets hypnotized by Black Abbott, and Spider-Man is only able to break it by making him angry
- There are two Black Abbott's, and Spider-Man asks if the other is Black Costello
- In the Baxter Building, the imprisoned symbiote continues to hammer its fists against the glass, a futile effort to escape
- Spider-Man finally breaks the hypnotism on Torch by telling him he's glad his sister lost her baby because he'd be a terrible uncle - Dang, that's rough
Oddities
- Editor's Day Off: Who forgot to color in the Torch?
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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