Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 116

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 116
Release Date: July 1986

Highlights

• First appearance of J.D.
• Death of Fritz Woolcot
• Spider-Man's first fight with Sabretooth
• As Black Cat lay on the ground with a broken nose, Foreigner's thugs tell her to explain why she broke into his place, with a twist - answer slow, and they'll break three ribs, answer fast, and they'll only break one
• Peter goes to Mary Jane's house, but when he sees Roderick Kingsley exiting, he blows up on her, and storms off
• Mary Jane ponders if they just had their first lover's quarrel
• Sabretooth seeks out his old teacher, Foreigner, and finds out that after killing FBI and CIA agents to find him, it was Foreigner himself, disguised as a wino who told him where to find him
• Sabretooth wants to work for Foreigner as an assassin
• Peter wrestles with his own emotions, pondering if he should tell Black Cat that he had her bad luck aura removed from him by Doctor Strange, which in turn removed the powers from her completely, but also concluding he doesn't want to see her ever again, nor get into an argument with her
• The Woolcot family moves so Fritz can get away from the accusations of child abuse on his son Alex
• Foreigner and Sabretooth walk in on the aftermath of the fight with Black Cat, and Sabretooth sets off to deal with her, despite Foreigner not wanting him to
• Foreigner tells his men they're fired, but they in turn quit
• Spider-Man goes to see Felicia, but makes it clear he's not there to reconcile their relationship
• Spider-Man tells her about Doctor Strange, and the two do indeed fight, resulting in Spider-Man leaving annoyed
• Sabretooth appears in her apartment, ready to take her life, but Spider-Man returns, kicking him in the face
• Spider-Man makes short order of Sabretooth, and the villain actually does himself in by trying to rip the webbing sprayed on him off of his face, ripping the skin off in the process
• A drunk Fritz returns home, and when he sees his son's room not clean, he attempts to abuse him, only for Alex's power to activate in fear, disintegrating his father into a pile of ash

Low Points

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Oddities

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