Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 291
Release Date: August 1987
Highlights
- First appearance of Kevin Byrnes, and Alice Larkin
- Much like the first time he proposed to her, Mary Jane Watson tells Peter no
- Peter first proposed way back in The Amazing Spider-Man 183
- She tells Peter it's too sudden, and that she thought they were just friends
- She then tells Peter that she needs to head to Pittsburg to see her sister Gayle
- Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 18, and 24, specifically how Spider-Man's spidey sense didn't trigger a warning during two dangerous events
- Reference is later made to The Amazing Spider-Man 106, 259, and The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 19
- A self driven delivery truck drives behind Mary Jane's apartment building, and parks in the ally, and from it emerges an all new spider-slayer
- The mechanical beast climbs the building, and bursts through the wall into her apartment, but finds she isn't there
- It simply returns to the truck, and the vehicle drives away
- Peter mopes as he walks down the street alone, saddened that Mary Jane wouldn't even let him go to the airport with her
- The robot returns to its lair, and from inside of it emerges its wheelchair bound master, Alistair Alphonso Smythe, the son of spider-slayer creator, Spencer Smythe
- As her plane soars across the sky, Mary Jane ponders to herself why she wouldn't confide in Peter what her problems were that were taking her out of town to her sister
- Smythe sends a series of electronic eyes out across the sky to search for Spider-Man
- Mary Jane meets her sisters two sons, but learns that her sister isn't there from Alice Larkin, who is watching the kids
- One of Smythe's cameras spots Spider-Man, and the man returns to his spider-slayer to see about the hero's demise
- Mary Jane learns her sister is in jail, and goes to see her
- It is not a warm reunion, and Gayle tells her sister to go home
- Enclosed in his spider-slayer, Smythe attacks
- We also learn that the electrical shock his last slayer, which he was also inside of, is what left him wheelchair bound, and reliant upon intravenous meals
- A construction worker sees the fight, and uses his bulldozer to drive over the spider-slayer's arm, giving Spider-Man an opening to indefinitely disable the limb
- Smythe retreats, and we learn that the gas he sprayed Spider-Man with was laced with a special trace chemical, allowing the web spinner to be tracked
- Mary Jane returns to her sister's home, and as she fumbles for a light switch is surprised by the voice of someone, and while she recognizes the person, we don't get to see who it is
- Smythe regroups, and beings a rampage of the city, but as Peter suits up and gets ready to head out, Mary Jane calls
- She says she needs him, and to please come to Pittsburg, and says she loves him
- Peter wrestles with his duel identities, he knows Spider-Man is needed to stop the spider-slayer, but Mary Jane needs Peter Parker
- He needs to make a tough decision - With great power comes great responsibility, or Mary Jane Watson
- Smythe tracks Spider-Man to the airport, and learns that the plane he's chasing after has just taken off for Pittsburg
- Smythe purchases a first class ticket for the next available flight
Low Points
- None
Oddities
- For someone who's always broke, Peter sure scrounged up money fast for a last minute flight to Pittsburg
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