Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 8
Release Date: November 1985
Highlights
- First appearance of Smithville Thunderbolt, AKA Fred Hopkins, Roxanne DeWinter, Ludlow Grimes, Marge, and Irving Stein
- First appearance of the location Smithville
- The prologue takes place thirty years ago
- After a rough day at work, Fred finds a meteorite piece that gives him super powers
- Fred makes a costume for himself out of old long johns, and sets to task on avenging the weak
- Robbie declines to buy Peter's photos of Spider-Man, saying he'd have to publish a Spider-Man story every day for the next year and a half to use all the photos he already has
- Robbie sends Peter Parker to Pennsylvania to get some photos of the new hero
- Just as he arrives in town, Peter learns of a fire at the old Elk Lodge, and immediately leaps into action as Spider-Man
- As Thunderbolt rescues the kids inside, and exits out the front, Spider-Man goes in through the back, and is jumped by the towering giant, Ludlow Grimes
- When Ludlow realizes Spider-Man isn't Thunderbolt, he simply leaves him alone
- Thinking it was Thunderbolt who jumped him, Spider-Man throws a tracer on the man
- Roxanne DeWinter sees Peter with his camera, and yells at him that he's on her turf
- When Roxanne finds out Peter is with the Bugle, she buys him a soda, and says the two should work together, mainly so that she can get her own foot in the door at the Bugle
- Peter declines, telling her he works better alone
- Peter follows his tracer to Fred's house, and confronts him, finding his Thunderbolt suit, and taking his tracer back
- Fred explains that over time his powers have faded, and he's needed to use his scientific brain to develop an exobody, which not only give the appearance of muscles, but does also increase his strength
- To stay relevant, Fred has been creating his own disasters, ones which he knew he could control
- Fred explains how he used smoke, but no real fire to give the illusion of danger at the lodge, while also weakening the wall so he could break through it
- Spider-Man's senses tingle, and he hears a noise coming from the front door, whipping it open, Roxanne snaps a photo of Fred in his costume without his mask on
- In a cliffhanger ending, Ludlow crashes through the wall, pronouncing that he (too) is the Smithville Thunderbolt
- The dialog in the prologue for the story is so choppy, with many panels only having one or two words, it's difficult to read
- Racial slurs in this issue - Not cool, Marvel
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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