Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 248

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 238
Release Date: January 1984

Highlights

• First appearance of Timothy Harrison
• Reference is made to Iron Man 171, Defenders 18
• Spider-Man relieves Thunderball of his Asgardian prybar
• The first half of the story wraps up with Spider-Man defeating Thunderball, and takes us into the second half, "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man"
• The story is narrated by a newspaper article that talks about Tim, and his wish to meet Spider-Man one day
• Spider-Man goes to meet Tim for the first time, waking him from sleep
• Spider-Man proves he's really who he says he is by lifting Tim's bed up in the air with the boy still in it
• Spider-Man asks Tim if he can see his collection, which consists of a lot of news clippings from old Daily Bugle papers
• Spider-Man tells Tim his origin, and the death that led him to becoming a super hero
• Spider-Man shows Tim his web shooters
• Spider-Man explains to Tim how his spider sense works
• Spider-Man reveals his true identity to Tim, and tells him that he's the one who takes all the photos for the Bugle
• The narrator / news article ends with a hope that Spider-Man isn't the monster J. Jonah Jameson says he is, and will come and meet Tim, who the doctor's estimate only has a few weeks left to live
• Spider-Man quietly leaves the room of Tim, and swings away into the night sky from the Slocum-Brewer Cancer Facility
  

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man tells Timothy, "Easy does does it..."

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

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Retro Spins: Eurythmics - Revenge

Eurythmics were at the peak of their popularity when they released 1986's Revenge. The album was a continued venture into a more full band rock style, which they established with 1985's Be Yourself Tonight. The latter would pave the way for Revenge to become the duo's best selling studio album.

Following its release, they departed for a massive world tour, which kicked off in June at The Roxy in Hollywood, California, and ended in December at the Alsterdorfer Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany. However, album sales and a successful world tour didn't translate to the charts. The single, Missionary Man, would peak at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100. Their second single, Thorn In My Side, would only be a minor hit, peaking at number sixty-eight.

The album kicks off with Missionary Man, but frankly, I've never been a big fan. It's one of those, "Yeah, I know it," songs, but frankly, it doesn't impress as much as their prior hits.

Though I didn't necessarily hear anything which I would call unfavorable to the ears, overall, it's definitely a downward turn follow up from their 1985 smash. With that said, I did thoroughly enjoy The Last Time. I'm going to go ahead and call that one my favorite.

Another unique aspect I found enjoyable was the very present backing vocals of David A. Stewart. I don't recall in previous albums him contributing to any of the singing, and it work great. His deeper voice has a good contrast to Lennox's contralto range.

Revenge is definitely not my favorite from Eurythmics. It's fairly lackluster in terms of what it follows, but it's not a bad album. I don't know that I'm necessarily ready to dive into another from them just yet, so I may take a break, and venture into something else before coming back to their final 80's releases. I'll make that decision by tomorrow.

What I will say is that I'm glad I dove headlong in, and picked up all of their albums. So far, while they haven't been perfect, there has been something enjoyable to hear. I'm not mad at that.

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THIS WEEK ON THE CHARTS
November 1, 1980

 

THIS WEEK ON THE CHARTS
November 1, 1986