Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 141

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 141
Release Date: May 1984

Highlights

• First appearance of the symbiote suit in Marvel Team-Up
• First appearance of Frank Arnold, Sheena Rogers, Ainsley Wilkins, Detective Rollins, Chip, and Roscoe
• This story picks up with Matt Murdock still trying to prove his client from issue 140 didn't kill the pawnbroker
• The cops press the thug, Cool Breeze, to confess to the pawnbrokers killing, but he refuses to admit to something he didn't do
• Matt Murdock monitors his heart rate, confirming for himself that the thug is telling the truth
• Reference is made to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 1, and 2
• Frank Arnold has bought the pawnshop from the previous, now deceased owner's widow, and oddly, he's surrounded himself with the very thugs that Daredevil and Black Widow think killed the man
• While Black Widow infiltrates the pawn shop, Daredevil returns to the gang's hideout
• Daredevil learns that his client, Zelnick isn't totally innocent - He was part of the gang who shot the pawnbroker, and was set up by the other members for holding out percentages of fenced goods, and being a thorn in their side
• Matt Murdock confronts him with this, and is told that regardless, he's not a killer, and he, Matt, needs to do his job to prove him innocent
• An abridged version of Spider-Man and Curt Connor's return to New York is told, with reference being made to The Amazing Spider-Man 252 for the full story
• Peter Parker returns to the Daily Bugle, and when Ben Urich asks him where he's been, he tells him the truth, "On a planet in a distant galaxy fighting for the salvation of the universe."
• Ben simply responds, "Uh-huh."
• Peter learns that the thug he captured in the previous issue wasn't the killer of the pawnbroker
• Spider-Man loves his new black suit, but nobody recognizes him
• Daredevil makes a deal with Kingpin, and finds out that Mr. Arnold killed the previous owner of the shop
• Spider-Man finds out about the deal, and chastises Daredevil for not remembering that he's supposed to be a hero
• Matt Murdock gets the confession he needs, and his client goes free - However, he tells the boy he probably would have been safer in jail with the target his gang will have on his back
• Matt Murdock is really reflecting on what Spider-Man said, and tells Black Widow he needs to go think
• Spider-Man is sad that Daredevil didn't say anything about his new suit

Low Points

• Still no villains...Again, I know Spider-Man just got back from Battleworld, and this was a thread that needed to be tied up, but come on

Oddities

• None

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

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