Comics Corner: The Spectacular Spider-Man 146

   

Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 146
Release Date: January 1989

Highlights

  • As Spider-Man swings home, happy with his day, he's suddenly attached by a robotic monster air vent, and worse, his spidey sense doesn't warn him
    • He makes short order of it, but finds no clues as to who was behind the attack
  • Mary Jane and her cousin, Kristy, walk home with groceries, and we learn from Kristy thinking to herself that her parents don't actually know she's there
    • As the two enter the Bedford Towers building, a lamp post above seemingly comes to life
  • A still recovering Joe Robertson returns home from a walk, letting his wife know he managed to make it around the block
  • Joe and his wife still disagree with him pleading guilty as an accessory to Tombstone's murders
  • Harry Osborne is once again woken up by nightmares
    • His wife convinces him that moving back to the old Osborne house wasn't a good idea, and Harry agrees to move back to Jersey over the weekend
      • Meanwhile, outside, Hobgoblin once again watches the house
  • Cousin Kristy sneaks into the bathroom while Peter is showering, and gives him a towel
    • Mary Jane tells her not to flirt with her man
  • Harry calls Peter and asks him to meet him at his chemical plant in Manhattan
    • Peter immediately worries if the Green Goblin has something to do with it
  • Ben Urich is on the scene of a crime where twenty local mob lieutenants have been murdered
    • There's blood spelling out a threat to Kingpin on one of the tables
      • The Arrangers arrives, but plays dumb, saying that the location is merely one of Wilson Fisk's assets, and he has no knowledge of what happened
  • At the Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson goes ballistic over a headline on the front page about poltergeists
  • Eduardo Lobo bumps into Glory Grant, and to apologize, takes her to lunch, swooning her every step of the way
  • At the chemical plant, Peter tells Harry to sell his dad's old house, and move back to Jersey, but just as he says this, his spider senses kick in
    • The pipes around the plant come to life, and start attacking, but just as they do, Peter's spidey senses stop working
  • A quick change to Spider-Man, and our hero is thrust into the job of saving his friend's life
    • As he does, he ponders if the timing of Harry's nightmares, and the sudden inanimate objects coming to life are somehow connected
  • As the plant burns, Harry gets angry, telling Peter it's all he had left of his dad, and rebuilding it would mean it would never be the same again
    • Spider-Man catches a glimpse of Hobgoblin flying away from the scene
  • That night, Harry awakens again from a nightmare, but this time when he goes to the bathroom to get a drink of water, the face of Green Goblin stares at him in the mirror, telling him the he, Harry, belongs to him
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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