Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 139
Release Date: March 1984
Highlights
- First appearance of Marcus Crusetti, Leo Dawes, Mojo, and Justin Winston
- Spider-Man grumbles about how much he hates fighting robots, all while being taken to task by the metal monster
- Spider-Man has his spider tracer from The Amazing Spider-Man 250, still frantically searching for Hobgoblin
- Nick Fury's buddy, Dino Minelli is in trouble - The Maggia have kidnapped his fiancé, Julie Winston, using a giant robot to commit the crime
- Nick Fury tells him kidnapping is out of S.H.I.E.L.D.S. jurisdiction, and when his friend leaves in a huff, Fury confesses he did that so that Manelli wouldn't get in his way when he helped on his own
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 249, and 250
- The spider tracer suddenly starts working, and Spider-Man races off to follow the signal
- Nick traces the missing girl to a yacht at the docks
- Spider-Man's tracer goes dead just as he reaches the docks, and he hears the gunfire from the battle below
- Julie Winston hits Spider-Man on the head with a bottle - she's the pawn in the Maggia's plan to ask Manelli for a ransom so large it will bankrupt him
- Manelli gets caught on the yacht, having found out where Nick was going, and all three men, as well as the girl are marked for death
- As soon as the giant robot is destroyed, Spider-Man's tracer beings working again - It was being somehow jammed by the mechanical circuits in the beast
- Despite prior confusions with the timeline of events from issue to issue, things are starting to fall in place - A full update soon
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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