Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 145
Release Date: December 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Kristy Watson, Cynthia Bernhammer, and NYPD officer, Lieutenant Frank Farrow
- Death of Teddy Tones
- Picking up where the last issue left off, Peter is startled awake in his hotel room by a revelation - Baxter wasn't Boomerang's target, Crippen was, and Baxter was behind it all
- Spider-Man heads out to investigate Baxter's yacht, but is ambushed by Boomerang, who gases him unconscious
- Back in New York, Ben Urich received a tip from Lieutenant Frank Farrow, who allows him to come down to a crime scene to get exclusive photos
- The body of Teddy Tones has been bled dry, and the blood used to write a message to Kingpin on a window
- Outside the apartment building to their home, a late Mary Jane literally runs into her cousin, Kristy Watson who says she's there to visit until Easter
- Robbie Roberston is out on bail, but informs his legal counsel, Cynthia Bernhammer, that he wants to plead guilty, much to the protest of his son and J. Jonah Jameson
- As Spider-Man comes to, he finds himself chained up in a speedboat
- Boomerang informs him it's loaded with plastic explosives, which will go off as he drifts towards Baxter during the race, providing one last alibi for the man
- After Boomerang takes his leave, Spider-Man is able to break free, but the villain notice this, and circles back
- Baxter uses every dirty trick in the book to attempt to win the yacht race
- Smoke clouds from the side of his boat, and hidden rocket engines on the back
- Spider-Man hangs on the bottom of the boat, and then surprise attacks Boomerang
- During the confusion, the boat heads straight towards Baxter's yacht, and seeing the inevitable collision, they all bail out
- It's like Wacky Races, but with Spider-Man
- All that's missing is Baxter saying, "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids"
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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