Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 287
Release Date: April 1987
Highlights
- First Erik Larsen pencils on The Amazing Spider-Man, and his first published work for Marvel Comics
- Thor 385 was technically his first work, but that issue was published after The Amazing Spider-Man
- Spider-Man searches the city for Daredevil, angry that he previously went to see him at his request, only for the Man Without Fear to not show up
- Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 100, and Daredevil 233
- Spidey busts up a teenage drug den
- Alfred Morelli walks with Richard Fisk through the park, and when a bum asks for a quarter, he gives him a Rolex watch
- Alfred deduces that the bum will sell it for drugs and overdose, meanwhile, the people he fences it to will kill each other for it, and the end result is removing more vagrant from the city for the price of a watch
- While Peter is having lunch with Aunt May at her home, Matt Murdock shows up unannounced
- He and Peter leave in a cab, and the lawyer explains his call to Peter was a ruse to get him out of the way, that Spider-Man is causing a bigger mess of the gang war by involving himself
- Peter kicks the door off the cab when the driver won't stop to let him out, and it results in him and Matt fighting in the street
- The cabbie breaks it up, and tells Peter he'll be getting the bill for his door
- After bugging the Kingpin's building, Alfredo is picked up, literally, by Hobgoblin
- We learn that Hobgoblin has parted ways with the Rose
- After he gets the information he wants from Alfredo, Hobgoblin drops him to the river below, intent on killing him, but the snitch survives
- Ned Leeds tells Peter that Kingpin is returning to New York that night, and that he's coming with a lot of police protection
- Mary Jane enters the Kingsley building as Lance Bannon is exiting
- Though she tries to engage with him, he tells her to do them both a favor, and forget she saw him there, and never tell anyone
- Matt Murdock, Falcon, Sgt. Tork, Karen Paige, and Melvin Potter are all working together to ensure Kingpin safely returns to New York
- Spider-Man stands before Kingpin's motorcade, calling the man out
- Kingpin obliges, and fires gas grenades at him, knocking out his spidey sense
- After beating him down, it's revealed that Daredevil was wearing a Kingpin disguise, including a fat suit
- Despite the two continuing to fight in the streets, when a sniper takes a shot at Spider-Man, Daredevil deflects it with his club
- The two go to talk, and Daredevil says that this ruse, which Spider-Man was an unwilling participant, actually helped get Kingpin back into the city safely, and that it needed to be that way
- Daredevil believes the only real way to bring Kingpin down is through legal justic
- Hobgoblin exchanges information with Kingpin, to the goblin goes information on Soviet spy operatives during the cold war, and to Kingpin goes the identity of the Rose
- Kingpin tells the Arranger to destroy the envelope unopened, because he already knows the crime lord's real identity
- None
Oddities
- While making short order of the teens running drugs, Spider-Man says they should be home watching Bill Cosby...Ooph...Hindsight is a heck of a thing
- Editor's Day Off: As Sgt. Tork hands Matt Murdock a gun, he asks, "You really thing this is going to stop Spider-Man?"
- Daredevil in a Kingpin disguise, including fat suit
- Editor's Continued Day Off: When Kingpin tells the Arranger to destroy the envelope, he says, "The the information is useless to me."
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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