Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 129

    

Title: Peter Parker, The Spider-Man
Issue Number: 129
Release Date: August 1987

Highlights

• The issue picks up where the last ended, with Peter coming home and overhearing Black Cat on the phone talking about their plan to set Spider-Man up for the murder of Blaze
• Black Cat throws a decoy bomb at Peter's darkroom, and as he goes to save his camera equipment, she escapes
• He gives chase, but as he runs to the exit of his building, comes face to face with Flash Thompson
• Flash, still weak, passes out in his arms, ruining his plan to chase Black Cat
• Detective Tork thinks back on his previous meeting with Stan Carter
• During that meeting, Carter tries to convince him that Spider-Man didn't kill Blaze, and instead of wasting his time investigating the hero, he should be investigating Lt. Keating
• Tork thinks it through, and redirects his investigation on Keating
• Peter and Flash go to Betty Leed's home, Peter unconvinced that anything is wrong
• That is until she greets them and tells them Ned will be home soon
• Flash grabs Betty, and after shaking her and telling her that Ned is dead, she finally snaps out of it, and cries for help
• Peter goes to the station to meet with Keating, and while at his desk waiting for him to return, his phone rings
• It's Black Cat on the other end, and Peter takes the message to have Keating meet her later at a specified address
• As J. Jonah Jameson grumbles about Silver Sable not finishing the job yet of capturing Spider-Man, he quips, "Women, can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em."
• That's not a typo
• Silver Sable returns Jameson's deposit, and tell him he's not worthy of being the man who brings Spider-Man down
• As Black Cat and Foreigner finish up in bed, Spider-Man bursts in through the window
• Black Cat finds the nearest phone and calls the police
• Spider-Man and Foreigner fight, but the villain has incredible speed that catches Spidey off guard
• Spider-Man figures out that it's hypnosis, and that the key to winning is closing his eyes
• Despite setting him up, Felicia tosses Tork an envelope with photos and the negatives of Keating breaking the cell wall of Blaze, proving it wasn't Spider-Man
• Black Cat sends Peter a letter explaining it all, how she was angry at him for dumping her, angrier when he helped her defeat Sabretooth
• Though her intensions were to make him hate her, she fell in love with him again, which is why she's leaving
• After reading the letter, Peter tells Mary Jane he'd like to be alone, but as soon as she leaves, he chases after her, just to find she's still standing at the door
• In the epilogue of the story, we find that Foreigner and Silver Sable not only know each other very well, but used to be married (maybe we already knew that, and I just forgot - it sounds familiar)
• We also learn that Keating was actually Foreigner and his men in disguise, and that Foreigner killed the lieutenant years ago

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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