Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man 52

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 52
Release Date: July 1989

Highlights

• Death of Sam and Danny
• J. Jonah Jameson lies chained to his bed, and screams unheard for Spider-Man who is swinging by his window
• Chameleon gives Jameson a few more links in his chain, with the intensions of allowing him to read the paper
• He also explains why he's impersonating the man
• Reference is made to "current issues" of The Spectacular Spider-Man
• Flashback twenty years ago to a young J. Jonah Jameson chasing a story at a local bar
• As he asks Sam for information on the corrupt police department, shots ring out, and Sam is left dead
• Jameson sees the shooter, and it's a cop
• Back to present time, Jameson kicks his mirror, breaking off a piece of glass, and using it to cast a light beam through his window
• He attempts to signal the traffic copter that flies by each day, but it doesn't work
• Back to the past, young Jameson bursts into his editor's office, demanding to know why his story on corrupt cops was buried
• He's told off by his boss, who also demands facts
• As Jameson storms off, he tells the young copyboy, Danny, that if he ever becomes editor, he'll treat his writers with respect
• Yeah...
• Danny asks if he can tag along, and when the two exit the office, they're met on the street by Officer Kenner, and a couple other cops who give them both a beating
• Two mysterious men watch from a car
• Back in the present, Jonah has cut himself on the mirror shard, and uses it as lubricant to try to slip the cuff
• Returning to the past, William Walter Goodman appears to be one of the men who watch Jonah get beat up, and he just so happens to own the Daily Bugle
• Goodman gives Jameson his first cigar, and then offers him a job
• Jameson accepts
• Returning to current events, Jameson is able to slip his one hand free, and begins stretching for the key that Chameleon left on a dresser, just out of reach
• Young Jameson has found a new informant, Officer Michael O'Hill, an eighteen year veteran of the force
• O'Hill gives him a key to a locker at the bus station, and tells him there's a notebook inside with every cop's name who's on the take
• At the bus station, Kenner is walking around, so Jameson gives Danny the key, who apparently has come to work with him at the Bugle
• Danny sneaks off to open the locker, and Jameson realizes what's going on, but it's too late
• As the boy opens the locker door, the bomb goes off, killing him
• Jameson reaches the key and frees himself, but passes out from the pain and exhaustion of everything
• Meanwhile, in his flashback, young Jameson is also passed out from drinking his guilt away
• He's woken by Goodman
• Goodman tells him that while it's his fault the boy is dead, he asks what he's going to do about it - quit, or fight?
• The panels alter between the present and past as current times Jameson crawls for his penthouse elevator, and past Jameson confronts Kenner in his own office at the station
• Jameson from the past is wearing a hidden radio that his boss is recording on the other end, and Kenner is caught confessing
• Unfortunately for current time Jameson, as the elevator opens, the Chameleon steps off of it
• Jameson is shackled around his legs and arms, and locked in a closet in his skivvies, but he thinks to himself that he's gotten out of worse

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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