Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 295
Release Date: December 1987
Highlights
- First appearance of Sally Salins, Mary, Leslie, Butch, and David Stack, AKA Captain Zero
- The story picks up with a wounded Spider-Man being taken on a gurney through the mental hospital, drugged up to unconsciousness
- Though he's wearing his leggings and boots, his torso piece and mask are not on him, nor are his webs hooters
- The orderlies tell new employee, Mary of the mental ward that he's headed for the Mad Dog Ward
- Peter comes too, and tries to fight the guards, but is quickly injected
- As he slips back to unconsciousness, he pleads with Mary to help him, and tells her he's Spider-Man
- Several days later, Peter sits in a wheelchair, clinging to his memories, but losing them fast to the consistent rounds of drugs pumped through him
- He's befriended a patient named Zero
- Peter tells the other patients they should revolt and fight, but he doesn't know why
- Mary takes Peter to see Vicky in her room
- Frank arrives home, and tries to appease his kids Tanya and Jacob with pizza, but they reject him, telling him he's not a part of their family anymore after putting their mother in the mental ward
- Frank rages as he struggles with no option to bring her home
- Either he gets her out and faces the Kingpin, or leaves her there, and loses his children
- In the lab, an unnamed doctor works on the mind of patient MD2020, code name Brainstorm, controlling his mind through a dream state, grooming him into an assassin for the Kingpin
- The doctor also references patient MD336, saying he knows that it is Spider-Man, and can't wait to be given the approval to work on him
- Seeing someone demonstrate a new "suit" for the patients at the ward which allows for feeding tubes, IV's, and injections, while also serving as a straight jacket, Peter snaps, and grabs the guy, forcing the suit on him
- When a male nurse tries to stop him, he easily tosses the man, while other female nurses look on in amazement that he has this kind of strength with such high doses of sedatives in him
- Peter starts a revolt with the other patients who start to destroy the place
- Nurses swarm the room, poking everyone with needles, sedating them
- As the unnamed doctor talks with a nurse, she tells him that despite the aggressive Mad Dog training, he resists being violent
- The doctor decides it's time for Zero to have a labotomy
- None
Oddities
- Peter doesn't remember who he is, but apparently still knows he's there for Vicky, and what her kids names are
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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