Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 226

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 226
Release Date: March 1982

Highlights

  • First appearance of Phil Bradshaw and his goons, Jack Allen, TV reporter, Greg Reed, Acme Sky-Lines engineer, George Mundy, and the nurses, doctors and orderlies of Mitchell State Hospital
  • First appearance of the Mitchell State Hospital and Tumminello Towers locations
  • Black Cat Makes her third appearance
  • Orderlies bring a ranting Foolkiller, AKA Greg Salinger inside to be committed
  • Felicia Hardy, AKA Black Cat, is also a patient at the hospital
  • Felicia was only playing possum when she let Spider-Man bring her to the hospital because in her words, "It's easier to escape from a hospital than a prison."
  • Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 114, and The Amazing Spider-Man 194
  • Jean DeWolff returns to the pages of Spider-Man
  • Black Cat says she'll go straight if Spider-Man wanted to be with her, but he declines, saying she'd have to turn herself in first, which she refuses
  • There's a costume party, and some of the guests are dressed up as Marvel, and DC super heroes
  • Spider-Man dressed as a Jawa, and even making reference to it
  • Spider-Man and Black Cat's first kiss

Low Points
  • Well that's just mean - Felicia puts a not on her tied up nurse that says, "I am a fat slob!"
Oddities
  • Black Cat wants to talk to Spider-Man, so she uses the most conventional method that we'd all go with - Sky writing

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

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