Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 68
Release Date: July 1982
Highlights
- First appearance and destruction of Robot-Master
- First appearance of the FBI agents Rayder, Abdul, and Rachel
- First appearance and death of Danvers
- Tiny robotic bores crawl out of the ear of Danvers, killing him
- Aunt May and Peter visit the grave of Uncle Ben
- Flashbacks show May and Ben on their wedding day before going into a quick origin synopsis of Spider-Man and the death of Uncle Ben
- May and Nathan Lubensky decide to leave the Restwell Nursing Home, and return back to May's old home to turn it into a halfway home for seniors
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 37
- Biff grabs Peter, and gets a solid backhand across the face for it by Peter, sending the guy flying backwards
- Peter steps down from his teachers assistant job
- Debra suspects Peter is Spider-Man after trying to follow Peter out of E.S.U., but instead seeing Spider-Man swing away
- Robot-Master was built by Mendel Stromm prior to his death - The robot lives underneath Stromm's sarcophagus in a laboratory, where he also keeps Stromm's body preserved in a capsule
- Upon the capsule lowering to the lab, Stromm's brain was downloaded into Robot-Master
- Knowing Peter is already paying her medical expenses, May asks him for a loan to fix up her old house - The guy barely has two nickels to rub together
- Oh good - Loser Debra Whitman is causing trouble for Peter, this time by working up her boyfriend to a point he wants to fight Peter
Oddities
- Editor's Day Off: Peter says to Biff Rifkin, "I haven't the the foggiest idea what fantasies Deb's been telling you..."
- Editor's Continued Day Off: Andul says, "We don't have time! The the explosive is set..." This is just lazy and sloppy work at this point
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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