Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 299
Release Date: April 1988
Highlights
- Disputed first appearance of Venom
- Though it's largely accepted that this is a second cameo, and issue 300 is his full appearance, many site this issue as his first appearance, among them, Todd McFarlane himself
- First appearance of Annie Deitz, and Paul
- First appearance of The Spawning Club, and Sanctum Maximus
- Spider-Man has tracked his spider tracer to an eighteen wheeler truck, but as it gets gridlocked in traffic, a kid in the car ahead tips the driver to his presence
- A cop sends Spider-Man packing
- Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 128
- The still unconscious Chance is delivered to the Life Foundation's fortress, Sanctus Maxiumus
- Peter and Mary Jane go the the Spawning Club, where they see Eddie Murphy and Paul Schaefer
- Spawning Club? Foreshadowing? Nah, it can't be
- The Life Foundation tells Chance that their plan is to duplicate his wrist blasters and ankle jets, but their scientists can't figure it out
- They tell Chance he'll give them the information they want if he knows what's good for him
- Always a gambler, Chance simply responds, "Wanna bet?"
- After tracking Carlton Drake's records at the Bugle to a withdrawn donation at ESU, Peter visits Annie Deitz in the administrative office at the school who tells him that she can't share the information with him he wants, but that he shouldn't look while she goes to powder her nose, wink wink
- Finding the information he needs on her computer, Peter tracks the Life Foundation to New Jersey
- Spider-Man sneaks into Fortress Maximus by clinging to the bottom of a truck entering the facility
- Inside, his spider sense kicks in, picking up on the tracer he planted on Chance in the previous issue
- Spider-Man finds a severely beaten up Chance, and frees him
- Chance tells him that the Life Foundation think the world will soon plunge into total chaos, and Fortress Maximus is full of luxury condos and amenities, which they're selling to millionaires at five million dollars per home
- While the Life Foundation has armed a private military with the weapons Chance stole for them from the pier, the Foundation want to arm themselves in the event of an uprising from said military with the weaponry Chance uses
- Spider-Man and Chance are forced to team up as the alarms in the place sound
- Chance blasts the munitions crates, blowing the place sky high, but not before grabbing Spider-Man, and rocketing clear
- Mary Jane returns home from a night of shopping, miffed with Peter for not calling or leaving a message
- She sees what she thinks is him in the shadows of their apartment...it's not
- Venom is here
- None
Oddities
- Chance gives Spider-Man a lift back to New York...on his back
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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