Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 279

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 279
Release Date: August 1986

Highlights

  • First appearance of Jasper Cornbluth, John Dancer, James, and Jack O'Lanturn's hendchmen; Babyface, Snake, Eliot, Willie, Harras, and Armand
  • Silver Sable places an ad in the Bugle seeking the help of Spider-Man, unaware that the hero is MIA
    • Seeing the ad, Jack O'Lantern sends his men after Silver Sable, wanting to stop her before she can enlist Spider-Man's aid
  • Mary Jane continues to try to reach Peter on his phone, but to no avail
  • Snake and his men rob a bank, and during it kill not only the clerk, but a random woman outside with her child
    • Silver Sable goes after him
  • Flash Thompson still sits in a cell, pondering where Peter is, as he was supposed to come visit him
  • As Silver Sable infiltrates the abandoned building where Snake and his men abide, Jack O'Lantern gives follow, and also attacks
  • Using a propane heater, Sable throws it at Lanter's burning mask, exploding him out of a window, and destroying his mask in the process
  • Having only one chai left, and both Snake and Jack heading away in different directions, Sable makes her decision, throwing it at Snake, and knocking him out
  • When the police arrive, they find that Silver Sable has broken both of Snake's hands, tied him up, and spit all over him
  • The events of this issue take place during those of Web Of Spider-Man 17, ending with the same final panel
Low Points
  • No Spider-Man
Oddities
  • Editor's Day Off: During the mission debriefing, the presenter says, "We've managed to to track him to this country..."

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