Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 293

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 293
Release Date: October 1987

Highlights

• Kraven stands before Spider-Man's grave, wearing his own version of the hero's black suit
• In the city, a woman runs through the rain, but when she trips and falls, a hairy arm with claw fingers reaches through a manhole, and grabs her, dragging her below the surface
• Within the sewers, Vermin reveals himself to the woman, and it's implied he's going to eat her
• Mary Jane sits in her apartment wondering where Peter is - He was supposed to be there hours ago to help her move her final items to his (their) apartment
• She fears he's dead
• Kraven crawls across the floor on all fours, stating he needs to become the spider
• He drinks a potion, and begins to hallucinate a bunch of spiders combining into a much larger one
• As Vermin licks his fingers clean of his meal, he sees Spider-Man's photo in a newspaper clipping, and panics
• This causes him to also remember Captain America, and how the two hurt him
• Vermin struggles with wanting to go back topside, and staying hidden in the dark
• Mary Jane goes out in the rainy night to look for her husband, but instead finds two guys who hit on her
• After telling them to get stuffed, they chase after her
• Still fighting his hallucinations, Kraven says his victory will only come when he becomes Spider-Man, and proves that he is better at it than the real Spider-Man
• The men chasing her catch up, and Mary Jane thinks she's saved when she sees Spider-Man
• After he brutally beats them, she realizes it's not Peter behind the mask
• Vermin also sees this while peaking through a manhole again, and decides he's going to go after Spider-Man, and that he's not afraid

Low Points

• The last issue of The Amazing Spider-Man crediting Jim Shooter as Editor-In Chief - Jim was fired in April 1987 from Marvel Comics

Oddities

• None

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

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