Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 322

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 322
Release Date: October 1989

Highlights

• There's a spider hidden on the cover - Can you find it?
• First appearance of Major Toler Weil, and King Stefan
• First appearance and death of Prime Minister Klaus Limka, and Vivian
• Spider-Man and Silver Sable are in Symkaria, following the leads they uncovered in parts one and two of The Assassination Plot
• Unfortunately, the lead they start out with is nothing but a goose chase
• Silver Sable chastises Spider-Man's attitude, and reminds him she's paying him $1,000.00 per day
• As they return to the castle, Prime Minister Limka informs that he has another lead, to which Sable says she won't follow since all his others have been a waste of time
• A short page later, and we find out that Limka and Major Wein are working together to assassinate the king
• Spider-Man finds a payphone, and calls home, but learns that Mary Jane has left for an audition
• Spider-Man attends the party, with a tuxedo over his costume, mask and all, griping how to keep his secret identity that he's essentially living in the costume
• The next day, and air show is performed, but it's an ambush, and paratroopers draw their weapons as the float to the ground
• Limka draws a weapon, knowing the troops are just a diversion for him to kill the king
• A fanged beast hidden in shadow attacks him from behind, slashing him open, and killing him
• Who's the mysterious killer? It's Sabretooth - You find out in the next issue, or by having all the issues, and seeing the cover of 324
• Still on the mission, the troops take aim and fire at the king, but his wife, Vivian jumps in the way, taking them all, and dying
• Silver Sable and Spider-Man don't hold back their anger
• One of Sable's soldier brings her a capsule he found near a hidden passage
• She deduces it's panadoxin, a unique suicide tablet used by the C.I.A.
• Did you find the spider on the cover?
• It's below the heel of Spider-Man's right foot

• There's a hidden Felix the Cat on the label of the bottle in Silver Sable's limousine

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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