Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 107

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 107
Release Date: October 1985

Highlights

• The first issue of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man to adopt the tagline, "The all new, all daring" above the title
• The events of this issue, plus 108, 109, and 110, which continue after each other, take place at come point during the events of Web Of Spider-Man 11
• Origin and Death of Captain Jean DeWolff
• First appearance of Sin-Eater, AKA Stanley Carter, Celia (DeWolff) Weatherby, Carl Weatherby, Russ, Sandy, Reverend Bernard Finn, Reverend Jackson Tolliver, Judge Horace Rosenthal, and Ernie Popchik
• The police find Captain DeWolff dead in her apartment
• Peter runs into Ernie Popchik downtown, one of Aunt May's new boarders
• A trio of thugs grabs Ernie, mugs him, and beats him up, but Spider-Man is quickly on the scene to mop them up
• When the cops arrive, they inform Spider-Man of Captain DeWolff's death, but that they have no suspects
• While talking to Robbie Robertson about DeWolff's murder, J. Jonah Jameson admits that even people like Spider-Man don't deserve to be murdered, but not to quote him on that
• Spider-Man meets up with Sergeant Stan Carter, who's been put in charge of the investigation for DeWolff's murder case
• Carter explains that DeWolff was shot at close range with a double barrel shotgun, and that her badge is missing
• As Daredevil swings across the city, he hears someone refer to him as the man without fear, and laughing to himself thinks that if he could see what he was doing, he'd be scared
• Matt Murdock heads into Judge Horace's chambers sensing someone is in there, and gets confronted by Sin-Eater, who takes a shot at him
• Judge Horace hears the gunfire, and enters the room, only to be shot by Sin-Eater
• Finally, we're back to the good stories in Spider-Man

Low Points

• Matt Murdock is representing the trio of thugs who beat up and robbed Ernie, and he gets them released on $500 bail each - What happened to not taking the case for people who aren't innocent?

Oddities

• None

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

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