Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man 39

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 39
Release Date: July 1988

Highlights

• First appearance of Rashiv, Bob Flanagan, Robert Tempia, Marty, and Mr. Giovanni
• First appearance of Ye Olde Pawn Shoppe
• Spider-Man helps a homeless woman in an alley who is being robbed by a homeless man
• The woman repays him by pulling a thread on his suit, opening the entire back of it
• Nathan Lubensky leaves his apartment in Queens, grumbling about the state of the area, and missing May Parker
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 271, 300, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 41, and 113
• Nathan gets his paper from Ravish, and gives some change to Norton, a homeless man before wheeling his chair down the sidewalk
• Norton repays his kindness by literally ripping the door to his apartment off the hinges to rob him
• Norton has super strength
• Mary Jane comes home and finds Peter poorly sewing his ripped suit back together
• She makes a call to Bob Flanagan and Robert Tempia, telling them she needs a Spider-Man costume for her husband by tomorrow
• Aunt May calls Peter, and tells him about the robbery at Nathan's home, and that there's also been robberies in her neighborhood
• He goes to check on her
• Norton sells some of Nathan's valuables to the pawn shop, and uses the money for liquor
• Peter goes to check on Nathan too, and though his deed is first met with hostility, the two soon smooth things over
• With a new suit, Spider-Man hits the streets the next day checking with every pawn shop, and scrupulous character on the street
• He finally gets a lead that points him to Giovanni's
• Spider-Man finds Norton attempting to sell Nathan's engraved watch at Giovanni's, and feels like he recognizes the man
• He does - As Norton escapes, he runs to his shopping cart, retrieving his Looter outfit
• Peter returns the watch, and upon hearing Norton's first and last name from Nathan, he realizes it's the Looter, and tells Nathan to call the cops (see oddities)
• Spider-Man catches up to Looter, and the battle takes place outside of Aunt May's home
• Looter turns his sights on the van with May and her fellow seniors inside
• It's a big mistake, as this sets Spider-Man off
• Seeing May in danger Nathan wheels towards her, and when he falls from his chair when a cop tries to stop him, he crawls, shouting for her
• Nathan proposes to May, and she accepts

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Peter thinks that the Looter is headed to Aunt May's house, and despite no clues or evidence leading to this, he's somehow right

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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