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
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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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