Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 68

   

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
Low Points
  • 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

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