Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man 23

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 23
Release Date: February 1987

Highlights

• First appearance of Hyves, the security guard, Davis, the Atlantic City Honeymooners, Jeff and Laura, and NYPD officers Anderson and Vasquez
• As Joy and Peter fly back from England (see low points), she tells him, in answer to his question, that he'll never make it in this business because he's unreliable, immature, and treats his assignments like a high school field trip
• Joy and Peter proceed to argue, and she tells him that everyone knows he only works for the paper because of his arrangement with Spider-Man to get photos, and split the profits
• Back at the Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson yells at the two about their extended trip from England to Dublin, until he see's Peter's photos
• Slyde infiltrates the Bugle, and steels a computer disk from the office of Carl Jenkins
• Spider-Man sees the ad in the Bugle left for him by Silver Sable
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 281
• Peter sits in his apartment, redesigning his web shooters for easier passage through airport security
• Peter heads to his Aunt's for dinner, and decides to stay the night
• Only Aunt May and Vic appear to live in the house now
• Jerome Beacher, AKA Slyde, sits in his apartment, attempting to crack the password protected floppy disc he stole
• When he finally does, he learns about the exchanges of his former employer every Tuesday and Friday
• Slyde breaks into Talmadge Investments as a case full of money is exchanging hands, and takes it for himself
• Though it's not noted as being Optimus Prime, a very familiar looking tractor trailer makes an appearance

• Peter buys Mary Jane three pounds of Godiva chocolate, just to have it all melt when he tucks it in his webbing with his clothes when he goes after Slyde as Spider-Man
• Spider-Man snags the briefcase of money from Slyde, leaving it for the cops who are also pursuing the thief
• Peter and Aunt May head for Atlantic City for the weekend with her senior citizens group
• Vulture flies through the city, hunting for his prey

Low Points

• The issue starts with Joy Mercado and Peter Parker flying home from England, meaning the chronological reading order is all off again

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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