Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 138
Release Date: February 1984
Highlights
- First appearance of Arranger, AKA Oswald P. Silkworth, Carlos Cassada, Roberto Cassada, Rosa Cassada, and Michael Cassada
- Reference is made to Marvel Two-In-One 86, The Amazing Spider-Man 19, 249, Marvel Tales 157, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Dazzler 8
- Sandman is really trying hard to live the straight and narrow path
- Spider-Man still doesn't have his spidey sense
- The Kingpin brings Montana, Fancy Dan, Ox, Hammer Harrison, and Snake Marston together to form The New Enforcers
- Under the guise of Sylvester Mann, Sandman rents an attic room at the home of the Cassada family, and heads to work at a produce warehouse
- Sandman finds that Mr. Cassada has been beaten up at his candy store for refusing to pay extortion money
- Spider-Man makes reference that Hobgoblin is still at large
- Sandman has a cathartic moment when he sees how acts of violence like he used to commit impact the every day people
- Sandman vows to deal with The (New) Enforcers for what they've done
- The New Enforcers defeat Spider-Man, and take him to their warehouse, where they proceed to continue kicking and beating him
- Sandman joins the fight, helping Spider-Man
- After the fight, Spider-Man confronts Sandman who tells him he's gone straight, but Spider-Man says he can't risk letting him go
- Sandman takes an explosion for Spider-Man, and the hero leaves wondering if Sandman truly has changed, or if he'll even recover from the explosion - He does, rather quickly
- Ongoing continuity issues, which I'm trying to piece together - Stay tuned
Oddities
- Editor's Day Off: Fancy Dan says, "I managed to knock his his legs out from under him."
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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