Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 296
Release Date: January 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Dr. Barnum
- Spider-Man has run out of web fluid, and broke as usual, he's hoofing it in the rain back home
- He talks about redesigning his web shooters so that this doesn't happen again
- Mary Jane is away in Aspen on a photo shoot
- Dr. Barnum and Jefferson seek to treat Otto Octavius through sleep therapy
- Rather than dream, Octavius falls into a nightmare, his subconscious battling Spider-Man
- His mental state causes his metal arms, locked up elsewhere, and bound by adamantium to thrash
- Peter designs his new web shooters, but doesn't have the money to build them
- A call to the Bugle yields no work
- Octavius's nightmares continue, and this time when he mentally links with his metal arms, they break free
- Spider-Man swings through the city looking for news to photograph, and finds it in the arms of Doc Ock smashing its way down the street
- Though he initially resists them, and even fears his arms when they find him, once the security guards shoot at them, Octavius accepts his fate as Doc Ock, and dawning them, breaks out of the hospital
- Doc Ock returns to one of his many lairs, and finds that his ex-henchmen don't want to work for him anymore, but they change their mind when his arms rip their car in half
- Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 5
- Spider-Man works with the Bugle and Dr. Jefferson to lure Doc Ock out
- Peter gets the money to fund his new web shooters
- Doc Ock determines himself to destroying New York City to get ensure the destruction of Spider-Man
- None
- Peter can barely rub two nickels together, and his first priority when getting cash in hand is upgrading his web shooter, not putting it away from him and his wife
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