Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 56

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 56
Release Date: July 1981

Highlights

  • Spider-Man's first battle against Jack O'Lantern, AKA Jason Macendale, who first appeared in Machine Man 19, and would later become the second (major) Hobgoblin, and one of the hosts for Demogoblin
  • Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 99, Machine Man 19, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 48
  • Aunt May tells Peter that she needs him by her side while a hostage situation has her fiancé Nathan Lubensky held captive, and Peter doesn't show up because he's instead trying to save Nathan as Spider-Man
  • Aunt May takes Peter not being there for her really hard, saying he doesn't care about her anymore
  • Peter feels bad because he knows telling Aunt May he's Spider-Man would have gotten him off the hook for not being there for her, but cause a whole other level of anxiety for his Aunt
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • Editor's Day Off: Several panels have Spider-Man's lenses colored red
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)





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