Title: Web Of Spider-Man Annual
Issue Number: 1
Release Date: September 1985
Highlights
- First appearance of Future Max, AKA Max, Beatrice, Alexis Sharp, Spike, Chester, and Tanner
- Spider-Man goes toe to toe with a robot that almost defeats him with sonic sound waves, and gas, but mustering all his strength, Spider-Man kicks its head off, taking it for later to study
- Spider-Man confesses to himself that he's long since forgotten a lot of Peter Parker's dreams
- As crippled boy, Max, throws away his sports equipment, a bunch of bullies sneak up, and tie strings of tin cans to his leg braces
- Max has a female friend, Beatrice, but he only knows her by talking to her through the wall
- Max tells her he was playing sports with Spike and his gang, and Beatrice says she doesn't like them, and saw them picking on a handicap boy - Max immediately gets disheartened knowing he was that boy, and sad that she referred to him as handicapped
- Beatrice pops one of the bricks out, and tells Max they can now see each other face to face, but this just serves to make Max panic, and he fumbles with the brick, jamming it back into place
- Max makes reference that he reached out to Reed Richards to help him with his disabilities, but that he was declined
- The robot which Spider-Man fought earlier fumbles into Max's home, still headless from when Spider-Man took it
- Alexis Sharp walks the street trying to con anyone he can, when he sees an ad for a science fair, and decides to try his luck there
- Max has entered the fair, where he meets not only Peter Parker, but Alexis, who convinces him he knows Reed Richards, and gets Max to agree to build him a strength enhancement suit
- After seeing the science fair, and then returning home to inspect the robot head, Peter deduces that Max created the robot he fought
- Alexis puts on the suit that Max built, but just then, Spider-Man shows up
- Spider-Man see's through Alexis' dupe that he knows Reed, and it sends the conman into attack mode
- Spider-Man leads Alexis to a series of buildings designated for demolition, and proceeds to destroy them while the battle rages
- Alexis keeps talking like he's in various movies, bouncing from genre to genre
- Max works up the nerve to go on a date with Beatrice, and the two hit it off immediately
- Too long, too boring, and took me two days to get through
- Still really disappointed with the generic nature that Spider-Man issues have become in 1985
- Where are the classic villains, the deep story threads, and continuity from issue to issue?
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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