Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 88

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 88
Release Date: March 1984

Highlights

• Hyde goes on a rampage in the prison trying to get to Cobra
• The end result of Hyde's destruction is breaking Cobra's restraints (accidentally), and the slithering villain jumping into the water outside the prison walls - Hyde follows
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 232, 250, 251, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 76
• Spider-Man ponders what life would be like if he and Black Cat were married
• Spider-Man and Black Cat come across the battling Hyde and Cobra in the streets of New York
• Cobra begs Spider-Man to save him from Hyde, but then ducks out when the fight starts
• Spider-Man once again tells Black Cat to back out of the fight, and she swears to herself it will be the last time
• Black Cat jumps back into the fight, and immediately Hyde gets the upper hand
• Spider-Man tells Hyde to take him in her place, and gets smacked into a building when the villain accepts
• Cobra returns, this time in his villain costume, ready to stand his ground against Hyde
• Cobra hits Hyde with multiple darts filled with cobra venom
• Seeing Spider-Man hurt, and blaming herself for not having powers, Black Cat runs away

Low Points

• One more issue, and I'll finally have pieced together the timeline of the series of recent issues

Oddities

• Why does Spider-Man keep telling Black Cat one minute that they'll roam the city side by side, but then as soon as a fight starts, he tells her to get back

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 88

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 88
Release Date: December 1979

Highlights

• First appearance of Hole in the Wall Gang
• We learn that Spider-Man, or rather, Peter Parker, doesn't know how to drive a car

Low Points

• The cliffhanger ending from issue 87 doesn't pick up in this issue, and I don't know when or where it does
• Generic crooks kidnap Sue Richard's son, and expect her to use her invisibility to break into a bank for them and rob it to get him back - Generic at its best
• Story is very amateurish, nonsensical, and unbelievable, even from a fictional super hero standpoint

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off - Several panels where Spider-Man's lenses are red
• Sue Storm goes stag to ensure she's fully invisible
• Spider-Man / Peter Parker quick change from street clothes to costume from panel to panel
• The gang of thieves really think that kidnapping Sue and Reed's son will give them control over the Fantastic Four?

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 88

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 88
Release Date: September 1970 

Highlights

• Doc Ock returns and breaks out of prison
• Doc Ock's mental powers have increased since we last saw him, giving him the ability to control his arms from much farther away
• The story ends, eluding to the death of Doc Oak from a plane crash
  

Low Points

• The issue felt kind of short, it was bogged down with action, leaving little room for actual story
  

Oddities

• None

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