Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 292
Release Date: September 1987
Highlights
- First appearance of Lieutenant Eden
- Spider-Man swings across Pittsburg, having just arrived at the request of Mary Jane
- As Peter sits in his hotel room looking for Mary Jane's sister, Gayles's number in the phonebook, the news reports that the spider-slayer ceased its rampage, and disappeared, relieving Peter that his departure from New York didn't result in someone being hurt
- Back in New York, Smythe is overseeing his crated spider-slayer being loaded onto a 747, which will soon take him to Pittsburg
- Upon arriving at Gayle's home, we final find out who surprised Mary Jane in the last issue, it was her father
- The two begin arguing, and Mary Jane storms out
- As Peter and Mary take a drive, and then a walk, she opens up to Peter, telling him that her sister is in jail for stealing a manuscript written by Benjamin Franklin from her work to give to her dad
- He was going to sell it, but cameras caught her with it, and she was arrested
- Mary Jane says her dad "Phillip" wants her to find out where the manuscript is, and bring it to him, and once she does, he'll leave them both alone forever
- Mary Jane tells Peter she loves him, and they kiss
- Mary Jane tells her dad she will help him
- Mary Jane and Peter go to see Gayle, but once again it's met with hostility
- As Mary Jane storms off, Peter gets some sense into Gayle's head by telling her that her kids need her
- After arriving in Pittsburg, renting a warehouse, and building his spider-slayer, Smythe tracks Spider-Man, and heads out into the city to kill him
- Meanwhile, Peter and Mary Jane head to the location that Gayle said she hid the manuscript
- Their find is cut short by the spider-slayer crashing through the wall of the university
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 19
- Spider-Man attempts to lead the slayer to an open area in the suburbs, but is grabbed and dunked under water in a firm grasp
- Mary Jane rams it with her car, allowing him to get free
- As Smythe once again gets the upper hand, Mary Jane once again intervenes, this time hitting it with a bat
- As the spider-slayer turns its attention to her, Spider-Man unleashes all his strength
- Peter and Mary Jane return to Gayle's home with the manuscript, but Peter has a secret plan to hit Phillip with a spider tracer, and go after him later
- He doesn't get a chance, as Mary Jane is working with the police, who hear Phillips confess that Gayle was just a pawn in his plan
- They arrest him
- Though still part of the crime, and expecting a trial, Gayle is let out on bail
- As Mary Jane and Peter Parker sit at the airport waiting for their flight, Mary Jane accepts his marriage proposal
- The whole idea of Peter getting married came from a fan at a convention who asked Jim Shooter and Stan Lee during a panel if they would ever allow the character to do so
- From there, the concept was fast tracked into implementation, resulting in a rushed story, and ultimately a relationship transition that doesn't feel natural
- Story elements are disjointed in the cluster of it all to get from point A to point B across three issues
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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