Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 301
Release Date: July 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Martin Jacobi, and Franz Kraus, AKA Frank Kruz
- First appearance of the Pruett Building
- A team of Wild Pack soldiers run through a training course at the Pruett Building, but fail
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 265, 281, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 128, and Web Of Spider-Man 39
- Mr. Cruz, head of security for the Pruett Building offers Silver Sable $100,000.00 to run the training course
- Peter is in process of moving furniture around their new home for Mary Jane when her watch alarm alerts her to a photo shoot she needs to get to
- Spider-Man heads out, and drops by Silver Sable's condo, demanding to know why she sent her men after him a few weeks back, she informs him it was just a job, and nothing personal
- Jason Pruett and Franklin Cruz arrive, sending Spider-Man's spidey sense into high alert
- Peter heads to ESU to inquire about an advanced photography course, but finds out it's all filled up
- As he's leaving, Dr. Sloan spots him, and asks him to step in on a class to explain ohmic resistance
- An unknown gentleman is looking for Peter, first stopping at his new home, only to get a lead from the doorman that he's headed to the college, but he misses him there too
- Mary Jane and another model, Topaz, mince not so nice words with each other over hairstyles
- As night falls, Silver Sable arrives at the Pruett Building to run the course
- Spider-Man investigates Pruett and Cruz, and while he finds nothing on the first, grows suspicious about the limited information on the latter
- Spider-Man searches Cruz's apartment, and discovers he's a Nazi, and not only that, but the son of a Nazi that Silver Sable put away years ago
- Silver Sable continues to run the course, but doesn't realize that the booby traps aren't harmless trip lasers and knock out gas, but rather deadly burning lasers, and poisonous gas
- Spider-Man infiltrates the Pruett building, and stops Silver Sable at the last second from pushing a button to end the test, which is also bobby trapped to end her life
- She doesn't believe him, and determines it's a ruse, with Cruz having hired him to stop her from completing the test
- After a brief fight, Spider-Man finally gets her to understand, and ripping off the panel to the button shows her the explosives beneath which would have killed her
- Cruz escapes, but Pruett tells Silver Sable she'll not only be paid, but that he wants to hire her to bring him to justice
- The mysterious man finally catches up with Peter by being at his home with Mary Jane
- He's Martin Jacoby, and he represents On-Line Research in Emporia, Kansas
- At the recommendation of Curt Connors, he's there to offer Peter a job as their new chief assistant of their experimental division
- Felix the Cat is hidden in the audience of students during Peter's class
- For Todd McFarlane, the artwork is kind of hit or miss - Some panels are amazing, others seem rushed, and sloppy
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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