Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 112
Release Date: March 1986
Highlights
- Final appearance of the Santa Claus Imposter
- First appearance of Amanda Robertson, Steven Estevez, Alex Woolcot, Fritz Woolcot, Jordan Modica, and Joe Krolik
- Joe Krolik runs from the mall, having just robbed a woman
- When Spider-Man catches him, tells him that he was just trying to get a present for his mom who was dying from a bad clavical
- Spider-Man doesn't buy his story, but the woman he robbed does, and doesn't press charges, only to find out that Joe stole her watch as she was forgiving him - The cop on the scene just laughs at her
- Peter Parker walks under the mistletoe as he enters the Bugle, and is greeted by a big kiss from Joy
- Things are lining up that Peter will be alone for Christmas, but only because he doesn't give people the opportunity to invite him over before disappearing on them
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 273, Marvel Tales 182, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 100
- Jordan Modica sits on Santa's lap at the mall, asking for some pretty rad stuff; Raiders of the Lost Ark on VHS, Stinkor (from Masters of the Universe), and Optimus Prime (from The Transformers)
- Mary Jane washing up
- Felicia Hardy dawns her Black Cat costume again, the first time since her and Peter broke up, and heads out into the night
- As Black Cat hones in on a pair of criminals robbing a store, they insult her by calling her Black Widow
- Black Cat decides to take the mink coats they were stealing for themselves, but then gives them to a pair of bag ladies trying to stay warm with a barrel fire
- Being a modern day Robin Hood made Felicia feel good, and she decides it's the perfect compromise to simply being a cat burglar
- Peter finds to Coke's in his fridge, and makes not that it's not that "new" stuff
- A pathetic Peter is having a Coke with his black costume, and talking to it like it's a real person to spend the holiday with
- Randy Robertson calls his father from the airport, and says his flight is delayed, but that he's bringing a friend he bumped into at the airport - Turns out that friend is his new wife, Amanda
- The Santa Claus Imposter attempts to rob the apartment of the three girls living next door to Peter, who springs into action as Spider-Man when his spidey sense goes off
- Spider-Man chases the burglar, but he gets too far ahead, and makes it out to the roof, where he meets someone else dressed as Santa Claus
- When Spider-Man makes it to the roof, the burglar, and the mysterious stranger, are gone
- The next morning Peter is called down to the Bugle where the criminal has not only changed his ways, but called the cops on himself, while he hands out hand made wooden toys and stuffed animals to children
- Peter is handed a note from the reformed man, which reads, "call your aunt"
- As Peter, Mary Jane, Aunt May, and Mary Jane's aunt Anna sit at Aunt May's home having breakfast
- Aunt May informs everyone that Mr. Popchik wasn't indicted by the jury for shooting the hoodlums who tried to rob him, and he's not only out of prison, but visiting his son
- In the bushes outside lurks two mysterious men, one wielding a knife, and in a cliffhanger ending, the one says to the other they'll do it another day
Low Points
- The focus point of Amanda is that she's white, and the Robertson family is black
Oddities
- I'm pretty sure once the cops see two bag ladies wearing thousand dollar minks that they'll be arrested and accused of robbing the store they came from
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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