Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 53

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 53
Release Date: April 1981

Highlights

  • Toy is destroyed when he's accidentally shot by his own creator
  • Toy didn't know he was a robot until his "death"
  • Cool panel with various Tinkerer toys, one of which is a stuffed bear with a knife in one hand, and a pistol in the other
  • Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, 160, 183, and 184
  • Tinkerer claims to have built the equipment Rocket Racer, and Big Wheel
  • Human Torch in a Hostess Cupcake ad
  • Tinkerer is distraught at Toy "dying", crying that he doesn't want to be alone
  • Spider-Man acknowledges that everyone needs a friend, even if it's a toy
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • The cops want to ask questions of our hero, but on of them still has to be told not to shoot as Spider-Man swings away - Why would they open fire if he's wanted for questioning?
  • Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man's lenses are red in a couple panels
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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