Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 303
Release Date: August 1988
Highlights
- Todd McFarlane begins hiding spiders on the covers for readers to find
- There is one hidden on this cover
- First appearance of Arnie
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 301, and Captain America 344
- Spider-Man returns home from a night out, but behind the mask, Peter still struggles with Mary Jane telling him that she didn't want to leave New York, despite Peter having a dream job offer with On-Line Research in Emporia, Kansas
- Silver Sable is testing the abilities of Sandman, who she's hired to help her find and defeat Franz Kraus
- As Peter strolls through the Bugle, he hears an angry J. Jonah Jameson griping about Spider-Man, and finds out Silver Sable has placed an add in the paper advertising a job opportunity for the wall crawler
- At her photo shoot, Mary Jane isn't focused, and questions if she loves Peter enough to move to Kansas
- Silver Sable's team is in place, Spider-Man on stealth, Sandman on muscle, and they're at the headquarters of Kraus
- Inside, Spider-Man finds crates of drugs, he then overhears Kraus explaining that they're selling the drugs to Kingpin, and with the profits will buy enough land in Central America to create their own Nazi State
- At home, Mary Jane starts packing bags, and says to herself that she needs to make a decision, hope it's the right one, and live with the consequences
- Spider-Man provides Silver Sable with the intel, and she tells him that his work is done, but he decides to join them as they go in for the attack
- The battle is won, and Kraus, along with all his men, are taken into custody
- Peter comes home to find all the bags that Mary Jane packed
- She tells him she has a few days off to go with him to Kansas to house hunt
- Peter instead tells her that she is more important to him, which is why he's decided to go back to school, get his degree, and get the job he wants in New York
- In a cliffhanger ending, a group of shadowed men discuss a series of photographs taken of Spider-Man, all by Peter Parker
- They state they have his address, and will move in on him
- Did you find the hidden spider?
- It's to the left of Sandman's pinky finger on his right hand
- Felix the Cat is hidden on the back cover of the newspaper which Spider-Man is reading in the offices of Silver Sable
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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