Title: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual
Issue Number: 19
Release Date: July 1985
Highlights
- First appearance of Alistaire Smythe, Johnson, the Spider Slayer VII, and the drug dealers, Lenny, and Charlie
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 259
- Peter has an evening dinner at Mary Janes, but he doesn't show up on time, causing her meal to be cold, burnt, and overall ruined
- Arriving two hours late, Mary Jane goes off on Peter, and ends up slamming the door in his face
- Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 2
- Alistaire Smythe, Spencer's son, has taken on work with Kingpin, using his money to carefully plan his revenge against Spider-Man for killing his father
- The hat which Kingpin returned to Spider-Man in Web Of Spider-Man 2 was repaired by Alistaire, and he put a tracer in it, hoping to use it to finally figure out Spider-Man's true identity
- Kingpin terminates Smythe's employment
- Smythe sets to his plan to kidnap whoever has the hat, and lure Spider-Man to him
- Mary Jane sits at the G&W Restaurant with Aunt May and Aunt Anna, while Peter searches all over for Mary Jane, just wanting to talk to her
- Just before Smythe arrives at the restaurant with his new Spider Slayer, Anna borrows Aunt May's hat, putting it on
- Smythe crashes through the building, grabbing Aunt Anna and Mary Jane
- Smythe deduces that Mary Jane is Spider-Man
- Having gotten the hat from Kingpin, Spider-Man concludes he's behind the kidnapping, and storms his tower
- Using this distraction to run his operations, Kingpin calmly directs Spider-Man towards Smythe's location in Soho
- Seeing that Smythe will kill her Aunt if she doesn't admit she's Spider-Man, Mary Jane tell him what he wants to hear, and tells him she'll show him where her endoskeleton suit is
- Mary Jane convinces Smythe to get her a camera from a local store so that she can film his victory, and leaves a note while doing so
- Spider-Man rescues Anna, and she quips that he's such a nice and polite young man
- Mary Jane's note leads the cops to Aunt Anna, just as she's rescued, and they tell Spider-Man the note informed that she was luring Smythe to the Bugle
- Realizing that Mary Jane is just playing games, Smythe throws her to her death, but she's rescued in the nick of time by Spider-Man
- Spider-Man destroys the Spider Slayer by tricking Smythe into crashing into the power lines for the subway
- Peter tells Mary Jane that he realizes now they can never be together because it would just put her in constant danger
- The story is a bit over the top, and the artwork inconsistent from panel to panel
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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