Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 319
Release Date: September 1989
Highlights
- The Amazing Spider-Man is now on sale twice a month!
- The cover doesn't mention any hidden spiders, but I would bet money there actually is one
- Can you find it?
- The story picks up moments after the last with Scorpion still holding General Musgrave captive, waiting for J. Jonah Jameson to be brought to him in exchange for the man
- Spider-Man gets used as an errand boy to bring Scorpion pizza as part of the hostage situation
- Spidey puts anchovies on it just to get a dig in on the villain
- Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 50, and The Spectacular Spider-Man 46
- Jameson (Chameleon) receives Scorpions demand, and declines
- Time runs out, but rather than kill Musgrave, Scorpion highjacks the general's helicopter and its pilot, the military man still a hostage, wrapped up in his tail
- After a quick threat, the pilot takes off
- Spider-Man tries to follow, but Scorpion keeps breaking his webbing
- Fortunately, our hero does manage to hit him with a spider tracer before being dumped into the river
- Seeing the news, Justin Hammer learns that Scorpion has altered their deal, and for him, that simply won't do
- Peter returns home to his Aunt's home, and finds her doing laundry late into the night
- Aunt May informs him that women's work is never done, such as Mary Jane who is still out on a modeling assignment, having apparently found work pretty quickly from her last job being cancelled
- Except she's not working, she's out dancing again
- Her friend, and makeup artist, Sandy Kintzler finds her on the dance floor, who tells her she wants to talk about work
- Mary Jane shrugs off losing yet another modeling job at the last minutes, but states she'll get something soon
- Sandy informs her that she won't, and in fact won't ever get another modeling gig
- The mystery about Norman Osborn from last issue is wrapped up pretty quickly
- He's been cleaning out the building his father owned in Manhattan to make it his family's new home, and has brought Liz there to see it
- She panics at seeing the Green Goblin mask in a box, but he tells her that it's going out with the rest of the trash in that pile
- Mary Jane goes home to Peter, and tells him that the reason she's been losing all her jobs is because of Jonathan Caesar
- Where the man can't successful threaten and intimidate people not to hire her, he instead buys the company, and fires the people hiring her
- Peter asks if she wants him to take care of it, to which she says it's her fight, and that she just wants his support
- Though Scorpion still has his hostage, he is all too aware that crossing Justin Hammer has left him needing to find someone else to offload the general onto, and decides to seek out Kingpin
- The next morning, Spider-Man picks up on the spider tracer he planted on Scorpion, and finds the villain driving into Queens in a van
- He webs it, and gently (as possible) crashes it
- As Spider-Man frees the general from the back, Scorpion poises for a fight, but all of this is interrupted by Rhino who crashes through the remains of the van
- Backlash accompanies him
- They've traced Scorpion through a homing device built into his new tail, and they're there to teach him why he doesn't go against his agreements with Hammer
- Backlash orders Rhino to go after Scorpion, as he goes after Spider-Man to get the general from him
- Scorpion tries to get away from Rhino by climbing up a building, and onto a giant ball statue
- Taunting Rhino to come get him, the big man obliges by running into the building, toppling it
- Meanwhile, Backlash has grabbed Spider-Man's let with his whip, bringing him crashing to the ground as electricity surges through him from the weapon
- The ball Scorpion was on crashes through, breaking up the fight, but Rhino has Scorpion in hand
- Unable to find the general, Backlash tells Rhino to get what they came for
- Rhino rips Scorpions tail off, and the two depart
- Did you find the hidden spider?
- Look in the rubble underneath Scorpion's looping tail
- TBD
Oddities
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Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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