Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 222

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 222
Release Date: November 1981

Highlights

  • First appearance of James Sanders as Speed Demon
  • Sanders was originally known as the villain, Whizzer, who first appeared in Avengers 69
  • During their first encounter, Speed Demon runs literal circles around Spider-Man, who can't land a single punch on the villain
  • Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 71, Avengers 70, and Avengers Annual 8
  • Spider-Man uses Speed Demon's speed against him to devise his undoing
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • A thug trying to flee in a truck says to himself that there's no sign of Spider-Man, and concludes he's not as fast as he's cracked up to be - to which Spider-Man appears on a wall outside, saying that he's faster - Um, how did he hear the guy talking to himself?
  • Speed Demon has his sights set on a major crime spree, and starts this off at...Bloomingdales...Wait...Is this a shameless sponsor plug? Even more odd is that Peter Parker suspects all of this

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



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