Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 265

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 265
Release Date: June 1985

Highlights

• First appearance of Silver Sable, AKA Silvija Sablinova, André Boullion, Ron, Lori, Madeline, the Wild Pack, and member Mortimer
• The Fox intends to retire from his life of crime, using his last fenced haul to fund it
• The Fox's fence, André Boullion, get raided by the police with a warrant, ruining his sale
• As the Fox escapes, he's pursued by soldier from Silver Sable International
• Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 99, 100, The Amazing Spider-Man 252, 256, and Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
• Spider-Man intervenes in the chase between Silver Sable International, and the Fox, accidently thinking the team are the bad guys since they're shooting guns, and takes them all out - He's then chastised by Lt. Keating for how badly he messed up
• An assassination attempt of Silver Sable is thwarted by her when she easily takes out the would be killer
• Aunt May and Peter attempt to bury the hatchet at the same time, resulting in them both getting busy signals when calling each other simultaneously
• Spider-Man considers wearing his red and blue suit during the day, and black suit in the night, but decides that's a dumb idea
• Silver Sable International catches up with the Fox, but Spider-Man once again intervenes
• The Fox confides in Spider-Man that he simply wanted to go home to his wife and four children, but that one more job kept getting in the way, and time eventually slipped away
• Spider-Man helps the Fox get away, but not with the jewels he stole
• Silver Sable, intrigued with Spider-Man determines herself to learn more about him
• Peter and Aunt May finally talk face to face

Low Points

• Continuity issue in the Spider-Man chronological reading order
• The story cuts to Peter in the hospital with Liz Allen and Harry Osborn, who have just had their child, Norman Harry Osborn - However, Peter was at their home in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man visiting the family, and the events of that book supposedly happen three issues ago

Oddities

• None

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

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