Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 311
Release Date: January 1989
Highlights
- McFarlane's hidden four spiders on this issue's cover, can you find them all?
- First appearance of "Peanuts" Mulroney
- Spider-Man swings over the New York library, and sees the lion statues outside have come to life
- He makes short order of them, but starts to feel nausea coming over him, and quickly sings away
- No sooner than he's on his way, Spider-Man comes across "Peanuts" Mulroney robbing a couple, and makes short work of him too
- As soon as that's done, the building he's attached to feels like it's moving, and a façade shaped giant bursts from it
- Though Spidey destroys it by chucking a car at it, it's not before the creature smashes and kills the man who Spider-Man just saved
- Peter returns home, and confides in his wife what just happened, stating he doesn't know how to deal with someone dying because of him (see oddities)
- The next day at school, Peter runs into Doctor Connors, and says the two should work together, but as he leaves, Connors admits to himself that he's been feeling strange as of late
- That evening, Peter and Mary Jane go to a sponsored party for a client who's hired her
- While there, a man enters, and causes a scene, but instinctively, Peter jumps in and stops him
- Seeing this Mary Jane gives him the pep talk he needs to keep going as Spider-Man
- Spider-Man returns to the alley and retrieves his camera, and while there, he starts to put things together
- There's no wreckage, no sign of a fight, and no fog like the other evening
- Spider-Man tracks down "Peanuts" Mulroney, and convinces him rather quickly to tell him where he can find the man who paid him
- Spider-Man gets led to Mysterio
- Spider-Man is quick to deduce that Mysterio is drawing power from the building to provide energy to his props and robots
- Spidey destroy the main source, causing Mysterio's suit to automatically compensate for the sudden drop in power, overloading it with energy
- In an epilogue ending, Harry Osborne wakes up from a nightmare about Green Goblin, and when he goes to check on his son, it cuts to the outside of his house where Hobgoblin is grinning ear to ear
- Did you find the hidden spiders?
- One is located on Mysterio's gauntlet on the left, and the other three on the gauntlet on the right
- There are two hidden Felix the Cats in this issue
- One is being held by a sleeping child, and the other hidden in the mist of Mysterio
- The battle with Mysterio is short, and warps up with no real satisfactory ending beyond him being back in custody
- Though it's not hindered by it (yet), this is the first Spider-Man issue sandwiched in yet another Marvel crossover event called, Inferno, which spreads across thirty-nine issues of varying titles
Oddities
- Peter says he doesn't know how to go on with someone dying, and him being responsible for it, um...Gwen Stacy, Captain Stacy, Ben Parker? Any of these names ring a bell with Spidey?
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