Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 127

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spider-Man
Issue Number: 127
Release Date: June 1987

Highlights

• First appearance of Edward Fasolino, Harry Niceza, Teddy Vinchenzo, and the henchmen, Willy and Vinnie
• On a stormy night, Edward Fasolino runs from a creature who attacks him
• Spider-Man hears the scream, and investigates, finding the man bleeding, barely alive, and rambling about a lizard man
• Spidey fears the Lizard is back
• Spider-Man calls Doctor Curt Connors, and is relieved to speak to him, and get confirmation that he's not reverted back to the Lizard
• Dr. Connors hangs up, and says to himself that he must handle this himself, and not involve Spider-Man
• Harry Niceza, and Teddy Vinchenzo are at a local pizza joint reminding the owner he owes their boss money, and will be back for it tomorrow
• It won't matter, the Lizard confronts them both, and tells them that if they don't give him the information he wants he will hurt them
• They don't have the answers he seeks
• Peter sits at home watching the news, and hears a story about a lizard man victimizing people
• Determined to get answers, Spider-Man heads to Curt Connor's home
• At his home Spider-Man finds a note informing Connors to come to a certain spot at a certain time, and bring the formula
• Spider-Man also finds the Lizard, but the reptile says he doesn't want to fight, and then transforms back to Curt Connors
• Connors explains that after returning home from Battle World, and in tattered clothing, that his wife said she needed time to think, and taking their son, left
• He then explains that since returning he's realized and accepted that he and the Lizard are one and the same, and since then, has been able to control his transformation
• He also explains that the note was from the Owl, who wants his formula, and has taken his wife and kid as ransom
• Spider-Man says he'll help, but the Lizard tells him he must do it alone to prove to his wife that despite his ability to transform that Curt Connors is still there
• Despite this, Spider-Man still follows, and attempts to stop the Lizard
• Lizard gets to the rendezvous point, and demands answers of where his family is from the thugs Willy, and Vinnie, which he gets
• Lizard infiltrates the Owls penthouse suite, but is stopped by a blast of cold, which neutralizes his reptilian body
• Spider-Man also enters the fray, grabbing Curt's wife and kid, and attempting to get them to safety
• As he's held at the mercy of the Lizard, the Owl explains he needs the serum that Connor's created to fix his shattered spine
• Lizard wants to kill the Owl, but Connors fights his rage off, and turns back to his human form
• Despite saving them, his wife still leaves with their son, saying she still needs time

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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