Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 97
Release Date: December 1984
Highlights
- First appearance of Hermit, AKA Timothy Quail, and the robber, Elliot
- Reference is made to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
- The origin of Hermit is told from the perspective of one of his co-workers
- A group of robbers disguised as average workers loading a truck trick Spider-Man into thinking they're just working, even though his spider sense is buzzing around them
- In the Baxter Building, the symbiote scrunches itself up, and hides in the containment cell
- Johnny Storm goes to open the container to search for the alien, but is stopped at the last second by Reed Richards
- Reed shows Johnny how cunning the alien is by activating the sonic shock, forcing it to reveal it is still inside the prison
- Spider-Man confronts Black Cat again about where she got her powers, and demands answers to other questions - She refuses to answer, and storms off
- While reviewing the surveillance camera f Cloak's attack on Kingpin, Jonathan Ohnn picks up on a radiation level not of this world emanating from the mysterious hero, and is determined to unlock its secrets
- Timothy gets wrapped up in a robbery, but helps Spider-Man by warning him of an attack from behind
- Spider-Man takes Timothy with him from the crime scene, and gets his story from him, making a suggestion how Timothy can go through life being left alone, like he wants
- The first four pages of the issue are nothing but recap from previous issues
Oddities
- Spider-Man's advice to Timothy to avoid people, which he takis, is to wander the streets dressed in a three piece suit with a long beard, talking to himself - So, act like a crazy homeless person...right...
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