Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual
Issue Number: 6
Release Date: July 1986
Highlights
- Last appearance of Ace, Lorenzo Spencer, and Jean Hillman
- First appearance of Chuck Hanes, Dianne, Wendy, Bob Haar, and Reaper member Tyrone
- Death of Mrs. Spencer
- Peter wakes from a dream, and thinks about his first encounter with Ace, specifically how the man was able to dodge everything Spider-Man threw at him, and his own jealousy that Ace was admired while Spider-Man always remained a pariah
- Tyrone roughs up Ace's sister in the street, warning her that she better tell her brother not to testify against the Reapers, a story arc carried over from Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual 5
- Ace shows up, and Tyrone pulls a knife on him, but is beaten down pretty quickly
- Ace reminds his sister that one of the people he's testifying against is his brother Lorenzo, which will split their family apart
- Chuck Hanes of the Child Welfare Bureau waits for Ace outside, and when he arrives informs him he's there to take his sister
- Ace declines, and rides off, while Hanes gives chase, but wrecks his car in the process
- City Editor Kate Cushing has had enough of Peter, and lays in down plain and simple, "No more clichéd pictures of Spider-Man!"
- She instead tells him their running a story on the mysterious vigilante, Ace, and tells Peter to go find him and get photos
- Ace shows up late to testify in court, but is pushed to his limit with the defense counsel insulting his family, and making accusations that he's only testifying to gain control of the Reapers for himself
- Ace storms out of the courtroom, deciding the legal system isn't worth his time
- A mistrial is granted, and Lorenzo goes free
- Peter Parker is in the courtroom witnessing it all, and decides he now has a reason to fight Ace
- As Spider-Man investigates Ace's apartment, the cops bust in with Chuck, they spot Spider-Man, and inform him that Ace is holding the child somewhere
- Now Spider-Man thinks he's a child abductor
- Spider-Man finds Ace in the streets below, and immediately springs into a fight
- To no avail, Spider-Man can't land a blow
- It's actually Ace who has the level head, and stops the fight, asking Spider-Man why he wants to fight him so badly
- Seeing he's not getting through to Spider-Man, Ace simply stands there, and lets him land punches for a moment
- Tyrone pulls a gun on Ace, but Spider-Man saves him
- Aces tells the gang that he and his sister are leaving, ant that Lorenzo will be back and can have leadership of the gang - he no longer cares
- As Lorenzo takes control of the Reapers again, in his own apartment, the son of Vince Difeo, the man killed by Lorenzo loads his father's gun, and says he'll get justice himself
- The story opens with Spider-Man having a dream that he's beating the stuffing out of Ace, while everyone he knows is cheering him on; Aunt May, Mary Jane, Robbie Robertson, and J. Jonah Jameson, to name a few
- Spider-Man is intent on finding Ace because he wants to fight him for a reason he doesn't even understand
Oddities
- Ace sees a couple armed robbers heading into a store, and tosses them out the window
- As he's walking out the store, he has a handful of cash, and the owner tells a reporter for the Bugle that Ace provides protection, and he kicks him some cash
- Except how much did he just cost the guy in a broken window?
- After an odd scene of Mrs. Spencer dancing with Ace, she dies
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