Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 100

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 100
Release Date: March 1985

Highlights

• Double sized seminal issue
• Spot figures out how to transform back to his human form, Johnny Ohnn, with exception of one giant spot which remains on his chest
• Kingpin asks Ohnn for an update on his research on Cloak, and the man lies, saying he hasn't figured out anything yet
• Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 69, 74, and 96
• Vanessa Fisk wakes up, but as she goes into a panic is sedated at Kingpin's order
• Peter has a nightmare about the symbiote
• Sha Shan calls Peter, and again asks him to help figure out what's going on with Flash
• Spider-Man arrives at their apartment just as Flash is leaving, and determined to figure things out once and for all, follows him
• Spider-Man finds Flash playing football, attempting to become a pro player
• Unfortunately, Flash is also apparently seeing Betty Leeds, Ned's wife, who shows up to the practice
• Spider-Man and Black Cat both lie to each other about not going to Kingpin's headquarters, and then secretly both set off for it alone
• The symbiote reaches Peter's apartment, and upon arrival releases the tourist it captured outside the Baxter Building
• Spider-Man figures out how to defeat Spot, and after giving him a few lumps, tells him to rethink his life of crime
• Kingpin reveals that the powers he gave Black Cat were all part of his revenge, and that eventually her bad luck powers will cause Spider-Man to have a fateful accident that he won't walk away from
  
• Black Cat realizes she needs to break up with Spider-Man, or risk killing him with her bad luck powers
• Before Black Cat can break up with him, Spider-Man breaks up with her
• I'm not going to lie, I'm glad they finally called it off
• The symbiote hides in Peter's closet, waiting next to the heroes classic red and blue suit
• Peter returns to his closet, too amped up on adrenaline to relax, and decides to dawn his costume, and head out into the night
• A Cliffhanger ending as Spider-Man reaches for his red and blue costume with the symbiote lurking in the back of the closet

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Several panels with Spider-Man's lenses colored red

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

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