Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 315
Release Date: May 1989
Highlights
- Todd McFarlane hid one spider on the cover - Can you find it?
- First appearance of Hal
- First appearance and death of Hugh Taylor
- Seeing a dead guard on the ground inside Eddie Brock's cell, Hugh Taylor deactivates the sonic shield keeping him in to investigate
- Though it costs him his life, Eddie Brock and the symbiote are both upset about having to do this to an innocent person
- Eddie actually kisses Hugh on the forehead as he apologizes for both he and the symbiote
- Venom returns, and he's dead set on killing Spider-Man
- Spider-Man easily defeats Hydro-Man with bags of cement which mix with him, causing the villain to flee as he gets "lumpy"
- Peter notes how it's important for him to sell as many photos as possible to the Bugle with Mary Jane's savings tied up in litigation from their eviction
- As Peter is leaving Aunt May's house, he spots Nathan Lubensky putting his aunt's purse back, and ponders if there's something he should know
- As Spider-Man swings above the city after selling his photos, he see's Nathan causing a commotion below at an ATM where he's shouting that he needs more than $500
- Peter hits the streets, and asks him what for
- After a brief argument, Nathan comes clean that he was using Aunt May's card, and that he has a gambling problem, which led to the beating that put him in the hospital
- He owes them $5,000.00, which he doesn't have
- Peter relieves Nathan of her card, and deposits his photo money into her account
- Aunt May and Kristy catch Nathan in the kitchen, and May questions what he was doing with the flour when he doesn't even like to boil tea
- Kristy thinks to herself that there's something really fishy about him
- Nathan leaves the house at night, and goes to meet the folks he owes money, stating he only has $500.00
- They tell him it's not enough, and their patience runs out with him
- He pulls a knife and a can of Raid to defend himself from being killed, but one man pulls a gun on him, to which Nathan responds by flinging the bag of flour in his face
- Spider-Man intervenes, and takes out the thugs, webbing them up
- As they threaten Nathan that they'll get another opportunity with him, Peter arrives on scene and tells them about the photos he just took of them, and that he'll turn them over if they ever come back
- As Peter pushes Nathan in his wheelchair back home, het tells him he not only wants the $500.00 back, but that he needs to give up gambling, which he agrees to do
- The next day he heads to the newsstand for a paper, and immediately breaks his promise, buying a dozen lottery tickets
- His defeat is not lost on him as he sits somberly disappointed with himself
- In the epilogue, Eddie Brock has been picked up in his hitchhiking effort across the USA, and is headed towards New York
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 271
- Did you find the hidden spider? It's located above McFarlane's signature in the blue portion of Hydro-Man's water waves
- McFarlane hid Felix the Cat on the front of a washing machine
- Despite being the main focal point on the cover, Hydro-Man only gets three pages at the beginning of the story
- Nathan sucks
Oddities
- Why is Eddie hitchhiking across the USA? The symbiote could easily web all the way there, and all night long at that
- In previous issues, the symbiote would go out into the night while Peter was fast asleep
- Why not do that with Eddie?
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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