Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 321
Release Date: Early October 1989
Highlights
- First appearance of The Protectors
- Todd McFarlane hid one spider on the cover, can you find it?
- The story opens with Paladin and Spider-Man deep in battle with the Life Foundation at one of their shipping yards
- Paladin struggles to tip over a train car to block their path, which Spider-Man obliges with the simple flick of a finger
- Paladin secures the needed files from the yard, and as the two go their separate ways
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 299
- At the Life Foundation Headquarters, the menacing men decide to unleash a new defense method, and initiate The Protectors
- Peter comes clean with Aunt May that he overheard her conversation with the doctor about her heart disease (from The Amazing Spider-Man 320)
- She tells him that it's actually Nathan Lubensky who has the issue
- She tells Peter that he will always have a home with her, but in wanting to make his final days peaceful, she's considering closing down her home to everyone else
- That night, Mary Jane tells Peter she's auditioning for a soap opera, and reminds him they're helping the Osborn's move over the weekend
- The Osborn's offer Peter and Mary Jane the opportunity to live on the top floor loft of their building
- They accept
- Silver Sable pilots a glider towards the discovered Life Foundation base in North Jersey, programming it crash in the river while her, Paladin, and Spider-Man jump out to safety
- The Life Foundation are building a shopping mall underground, with the intentions of finding rich yuppies to pay to be there when society collapses
- We learn The Protectors are mercenaries who were altered surgically to make them stronger, and subservient to the Life Foundation
- As the battle ensues, Silver Sable crashes into the main control room, and injects Chakane with something that allows her to question him
- She learns an assassin has been hired to kill the king of Symkaria during the King's Silver Jubilation
- She tells Paladin and Spider-Man that she needs to be on her way there, but Paladin says he has another job
- Spider-Man agrees to go for a thousand dollars
- Did you find the hidden spider?
- It's located in the smoke next to Silver Sable's left arm
- Todd hid two Felix the Cat images in this issue, three if you count one that shows up twice in continuity
- The first (and second) is on a portrait hung above Peter and Mary Jane's bed
- The last is under Peter's left arm as he sits on the couch
Low Points
- I guess we're not going to worry about the cliffhanger ending of The Spectacular Spider-Man 155 with Spidey aboard a helicopter wanting to find Joe Robertson and Tombstone who both fell out of it when Joe grabbed the villain during a prison escape
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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