Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 120
Release Date: November 1986
Highlights
- First appearance of Daily Bugle employee, Blaine Browne
- First appearance and death of Dominic Castellano
- Classic Marvel 25th Anniversary cover
- Spider-Man sees an incident unfolding at the entrance of an apartment between an old man with a butcher knife, a group of thugs, and the police
- Spider-Man disarms the old man, and learns that all the men, except the cops live there
- The thugs make it difficult for the honest folks
- Peter attempts to sell photos and the story to the Bugle, but is initially turned down by Robbie Robertson until reporter Blaine Browne informs him she's heard rumblings of a tenant uprising to take care of the thugs themselves
- The two head out that night for the story
- The thugs at the building try to scare the two away, but they're saved by Dominic, the old man with the butcher knife, who invites them in, and tells them what's going on
- It's a story about a greedy landlord who brought in the gangs to scare the honest folks away so that he could convert to luxury units
- Dominic is murdered - Thrown from the roof of his building, made to look like suicide
- An arson sets the building on fire, the last desperate act of the owner of the building to get rid of the people
- Despite the fire, Spider-Man chases him down, telling him he better confess, or Spidey will come back for him
- He confesses
- The panels of art are all zoomed in really tight, the pages literally can't breathe with how claustrophobic they are
- The story is nothing more than the writer stomping his feet for rent control
Oddities
- Spider-Man is in his classic red and blue suit - How? There's been no mention of him remaking it after it was destroyed in the "End of the Red Suit" story arc - Web of Spider-Man 16 - 18
- Editor's Day Off: In speaking with Dominic, Blaine says, "So that the public can under what's happening here!" not completing the word "understand"
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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