Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 271
Release Date: December 1985
Highlights
- First appearance of Manslaughter Marsdale, Madame Fang, and Bobby Chance
- We go all the back to Amazing Fantasy 15, with the wrestler, Crusher, who Spider-Man first went against in the ring, trying to earn $100
- Crusher tells a (not so true) story to Bobby about how he took Spider-Man under his wing, taught him agility and strength training, made his web shooter, and eventually his iconic costume
- Bobby wants to leave Marsdale's boxing gym when his agreement ends, but Marsdale (violently) tells him to reconsider
- Crusher overhears Marsdale and Madame Fang talking about Bobby
- Crusher goes home, and it's here we see he's a big fan of Spider-Man with posters everywhere
- Crusher wishes he actually knew Spider-Man, and could get his assistance to help Bobby
- Spider-Man returns home, but when he sees his neighbors sunbathing on the roof, deterring him from entering his apartment through the skylight, he flings web made bats at them, scaring them away
- Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 7, Secret Wars II, and Amazing Fantasy 15
- Mrs. Muggins bangs on Peter's door, and when he opens, says she knows it was him who scared the girls off the roof, before promptly calling him a pervert
- After Mrs. Muggins reminders Peter that his rent is due next week, he considers hocking the gold notepad he took from the demolished building in Secret Wars 6
- Mary Jane shows up, and invites Peter to dinner on her
- Nathan Lubensky gets a strange phone call, from a voice he recognizes, who tells him to meet him at the usual place
- Peter learns that Mary Jane is working for Kingsley Ltd., AKA Robert Kingsley
- Peter goes to the Bugle looking for an assignment, and finds Ned and Betty Leeds arguing again
- Lance Bannon convinces the Bugle to give Peter his assignment so he can take the night off
- As Peter returns home, Aunt May calls him, asking him for help with Nathan, forcing Peter to call Lance and cancel
- As Spider-Man follows Nathan across town, Manslaughter makes his move on Bobby, and gunshots ring out, which our hero hears, and decides he needs to leave Nathan to his own devices, after planting a spider tracer on the cab he was in
- Nathan apparently owes money to someone, and when meeting their shadowed figures in a dark alley, he lets his men lose on the old man
- Spider-Man obliterates Manslaughter in the fight, and remembers Crusher from his past
- Spider-Man gives Crusher a win when Bobby tells him about how Crusher always talks about him, and trained him, Spider-Man goes along with it
- Peter goes to Aunt May's house the next morning, noting he couldn't find Nathan after his fight at the gym, only to find out Nathan was beaten, and is in the hospital
- Great throwback story to Amazing Fantasy 15, and Nathan got his stupid teeth kicked in - What's not to love?
- Nathan has done a complete 180, absolutely hating on Peter in his thoughts about the man
- After Nathan is beaten up, Aunt May plays the pity card on Peter, saying that she understands that she's not an important aspect of her life, and that's why he couldn't bother to follow Nathan like she asked
- I'm tired of Aunt May and Nathan Lubensky
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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