Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 298
Release Date: March 1988
Highlights
- Todd McFarlane takes over pencil duties on The Amazing Spider-Man
- First cameo appearance of Venom
- First appearance of Sandy Kintzler, Stephanie, Mr. MacVay, the Life Foundation, and its leader, Carlton Drake
- First appearance and death of Orin Concardi
- First appearance of the East Village, Hearth, and the Upper West Side's Endicott Building
- Chance ambushes Orin Concardi as the feds are escourting him to court
- As the feds scramble to ward him off, Concardi takes off in their car
- Chances takes the opportunity to explode the vehicle with his lasers, killing Concardi in the process
- Chance reports to Mr. Treece that he's won the bet, and will be by for his $10,000.00
- After completing her fashion shoot, Mary Jane attempts to call Peter at home, but gets the answering machine
- Peter informs Robbie the two are probably moving to the Bedford, and when Robbie asks if he can afford the place, Peter tells him he can't even afford the YMCA
- Peter asks if there are any assignments, and is told no
- Joy Mercado overhears, and tells Peter he can't keep sitting around waiting for news - He has to get out there and chase it
- She gives him a tip on foreign arms being unloaded at a pier the next evening, and says if he wants to get the photos, she'll write the story, and they can split the proceeds
- Peter agrees
- After complaining that Mary Jane making more money bothers him, Peter realizes he's being a jerk, and decides to do something for her
- That something is dawning a red speedo, and greeting her as she comes home to a set table of wine and chicken McNuggets
- Mary Jane opens the door further to introduce him to her friend, Sandy
- After losing a bet of $500.00 to a cab driver, Chance reminds the readers that he wagers for everything, including every job he takes
- Carlton Drake contacts Chance, and tells him he wants his help
- The Life Foundation wagers Chance $20,000.00 that he can't get them the weapons being offloaded at the pier, he takes the bet
- As Spider-Man watches the weapons being unloaded, preparing to take photos, Chance strikes
- Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 15, and X-Factor 25
- As Spider-Man hits Chance with a spider tracer, and comes up with a plan, the entire city goes dark
- Though Spider-Man makes an alternate plan (see oddities), when Chance wounds a solider running for his rifle, our hero has no choice but to take action
- After delivering the weapons, the Life Foundation double crosses Chance, knocking him out with a bobby trapped pen which sends volts of electricity through him
- Mary Jane tells Peter he needs to stop worrying about making money so much
- A shadowy figure stands before a wall of Spider-Man news clippings, vowing revenge for what he's done to him
- As he pounds his fists, the black symbiote goo forms a familiar black glove
- Venom is coming - Ooh la la, the chills!
- It appears the chronological reading order is off
- This issue has Mary Jane calling Peter and telling him she's going to check out the condo at Bedford Towers, which she says they have a chance of getting
- However, chronologically, the last issue read, Web Of Spider-Man 38, had them throwing a moving party at their old apartment
Oddities
- Spider-Man decides to let Chance go after he steals the munitions because he wants to turn the opportunity into another money making photo session, when he goes after the thief - That's not very hero like
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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