Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 138
Release Date: May 1988
Highlights
- Final appearance of Maggie Michaelson, Gullivar South, Elvira Corona, Luis Corona, and Emelita Corona
- Captain America and Tarantula go on the hunt for Spider-Man
- Tarantula tells Captain America that Spider-Man killed his predecessor, and is aiding known traitors
- He then gives a twisted retelling of the events from last issue involving Elvira Corona
- Captain America thinks all of the information he's receiving sounds odd, but he has his orders
- Peter and Mary Jane meet with Maggie Michaelson, and please for aid in amnesty for Elvira
- Robbie Robertson blows Kate Cushing off when she asks what's been wrong with him as of late
- She uses her report instincts to find a clue in an old newspaper article of Tombstone on his desk
- A guard is reading what looks like a book, but possibly a comic because he states, "This Claremont guy sure can write." A nod to Marvel writer, Chris Claremont
- Tarantula and Captain America break into the holding cells where Elvira is, and the villain questions her about Spider-Man, but in Spanish so that Captain America doesn't understand
- Tombstone goes to see Roland Rayburn, and tells him the Arranger wants him
- Mary Jane gets a call from Elvira pleading for help, and Spider-Man heads out on the mission, but knows it's a trap
- What he didn't expect was Captain America to be working alongside Tarantula, and they both attack
- Captain America disengages from the fight, questioning why he's there, and what he's doing
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 236
- Tarantula stings Spider-Man with his poison tipped boot blade, and then proceeds to state out loud the terrible things he's going to do to him
- He doesn't get a chance, as Spider-Man deliver's a blow that breaks Tarantula's knee
- Hearing everything Tarantula said, Captain America walks away
- Captain America returns to Mr. South, and informs him he's aware that he's a rogue agent, and socks him one good in the face
- Peter and Mary Jane watch Elvira board a plane, being taken back to her country
- Tarantula is in cuffs, and also being returned home
- I prefer my Spider-Man stories to stay out of politics, and real-world hot topics
- I read Spider-Man to escape from that stuff, not absorb it more
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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