Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 297
Release Date: February 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Al and Martin
- First appearance and death of Eddie
- Spider-Man has finished his new web shooters, and swings through the night sky, testing them out
- The upgraded unit is now made of plastic, meaning it won't be set off by metal detectors, and also has a flashing red LED visible through his costume to warn him when the cartridge is running low
- Further, the wrist capsule now rotates to put another cartridge in place, or he can simply open the compartment, and replace it with a cartridge from his belt
- Lastly, he's also built a spider tracer launcher on the other side, allowing him to hit targets more accurately, and from greater distances
- Aunt May and Aunt Anna stop by Peter's apartment to surprise him with dinner out on them, but Peter has just returned, still in his Spider-Man suit
- He hides in the shower as Aunt May comes into the bathroom, making like he was bathing
- Eddie, the pilot for Al's Air Rents, a helicopter rental shop, is all booked up, and this doesn't please Doc Ock
- Doc Ock literally tears the man apart with his metal arms, killing him
- Robbie overhears Peter telling Joy about his ongoing financial difficulties, and suggests to the young man that he should consider looking for a different line of work
- Spider-Man attempts to break up a robbery of a wealthy penthouse owner named Henry
- In the process, one of his priceless paintings, and a gargoyle statue are damaged, resulting in Henry claiming he's going to sue Spider-Man
- Doc Ock breaks into a secure military lab, and steals a bacillus, and takes it to his hideout within the Trade Center Towers
- Ock has gone mad - In his desire to kill Spider-Man, he's opted to kill everyone in Manhattan, convinced Spider-Man will be among them
- He orders his men to activate the bacillus
- Spider-Man crashes through the window, sending Ock into a frozen state of panic
- Though Spider-Man takes one of his men captive, and orders him to tell the pilot to abort the operation, he's told that only Doc Ock knows the code words that would make him cease his mission
- Despite physically being immobilized, Ock's arms go into full on defense mode
- Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 79
- Spider-Man deduces that he needs to lose the fight to build Ock's confidence back up, and snap him out of his frozen state of fear
- Allowing himself to take blows from Ock's arms, the villain snaps out of his comatose state, and celebrates his victory
- Spider-Man tells him he wouldn't want to kill all the witnesses to his victory, and agreeing, Doc Ock calls off the mission
- Dock Ock tells Spider-Man he has no intensions of killing him, but rather that the hero will have to live with his regret of defeat, just as he has had to
- Despite having to take a beating, Peter is proud that he was able to save so many lives, and tells himself he's just become an adult
- Mary Jane is now in Colorado on a shoot, and with a brief couple panels where she calls home saying she'll be back by the weekend, is once again being written out of the story
Oddities
- Either Doc Ock has changed his costume, or it's another Editor's Day Off moment
- His suit, which was green and orange, and has been for decades, is suddenly blue and orange
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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