Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man Annual 5

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man Annual
Issue Number: 5
Release Date: November 1989

Highlights

• Story I: War Zone: New York
• First appearance of Megasaur, Trish Fox, and Todd Tremaine
• First appearance and death of General Epititus
• Trish Fox stands in Battery Park, reporting on what is soon to be the first war on American soil since 1812
• On hand for protection with the military are Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four, which includes a fifth member, Ms. Marvel, AKA She-Thing
• The Atlantean army attacks
• Reference is made to Avengers Annual 18
• The Atlantean army are pushed back by the heroes, and just as they appear to be in full retreat, but a second wave appears, riding a giant Megasaur
• General Epititus tries to warn Attuma that they cannot win the battle, and that he is being deceived by Ghaur and Lady Llyra
• Attuma shoots him dead for daring to suggest any of this
• Turns out Epititus was right, and Lemurian troops are attacking Atlantis at the same time
• The Atlantean army also makes its way through Washington, and as they bare down on some American soldiers, are stopped by a mysterious figure intervenes, ripping a chunk out of the wall, and blocking the enemies attacks
• After the smoke clears, he's vanished
• Back in Manhattan, the Fantastic Four all go down to the Megasaur, leaving Spider-Man standing ground on his own
• Ghaur claims one more bride for Set in Susan Storm
• The third wave of the attack comes from Attuma and his men storming the streets
• Spider-Man lures the large creature to an electric billboard, jumping out of the way as it attacks
• The electricity from within shocks the creature, going all the way to the Atlantean driver atop, knocking him out, but not affecting the Megasaur
• Without a driver, the creature instinctively returns to the sea
• NASA picks up on the nuclear explosion in Atlantis from the Lemurian surprise attack
• Attuma receives word of the attack, the destruction of Atlantis, and no signs of life
• As all the Atlantean troops retreat, Attuma stays behind, and surrenders, realizing he's been a fool
• Reed Richards holds a press conference, where he confirms his wife is missing
• The reporter asks if Spider-Man will assist, and he responds that he will if Reed wants him to
• The story is continued in West Coast Avengers Annual 4
• Story II: A Random Miracle
• Story by Gerry Conway, with art by Steve Ditko, inked by Al Milgrom
• First appearance of Quantum Mechanic
• Story III: Petey
• Fred Hembeck takes you into the life of young Petey Parker
• Story IV: Spider-Man's Most Dubious
• Another fun Fred Hembeck drawn gallery of Spidey's accessories, friends, foes, and situations
• Story V: A Mute Player For Deaf Ears
• First appearance of Jannsens, Bettermanh, Zahl, Madeline, and Frau Kuryova
• First appearance and death of Kuryova
• A solo story featuring Silver Sable
• Sable attends the funeral of one of her Wildpack operatives, Kuryova, where she is approached by his wife, Frau Kuryova
• The widow asks how she will feed her children with her husband gone
• Sable coldly answers that she prays, and then elaborates by saying to pray that the Pack Board doesn't find her husband as grossly incompetent as she does
• Again, the guy is dead
• As anger fills Sable upon her return home, we're taken to a flashback mission with her, Kuryova, and other Wild Pack soldiers
• The flashback is interrupted by her accidentally breaking a crystal cat statue in her home, which takes her to another flashback of her father training her
• It serves as an origin story, I suppose
• Silver Sable remembers another mission with Kuryova, calling him a coward and incompetent for abandoning his post, allowing good men to be killed
• The story then flashes to her and her uncle, explaining how she came up with her name
• We learn now how Kuryova died on the mission
• In a cowardice attempt to retreat, he leaves injured men behind, but as he climbs the ladder to a rising helicopter he's hit by enemy fire
• The Pack Board determines him a coward, insubordinate, and derelict of his duties, denying all benefits his wife would have received upon his dead
• Silver Sable coldly instructs her to be told all of this
• Story VI: Saga Of The Serpent Crown Part XI
• Art by Mark Bagley, inked by Keith Williams
• First appearance of the Serpent Cartel, and members Gergory Gideon, Justin Hammer, Leland Owlsley, Sebastian Shaw, Obadiah Stane, and Cornelius van Lunt

Low Points

• Story I: War Zone: New York
• It's unfortunate the story continues in an Annual I won't be reading
• Story II: A Random Miracle
• The story is all about Captain Universe, and doesn't feature Spider-Man at all
• Get your own book!
• Story V: A Mute Player For Deaf Ears
• Another story that doesn't feature Spider-Man, but at least Silver Sable is a character who got her start in the pages of his books, and occasionally reappears
• Story VI: Saga Of The Serpent Crown Part XI
• I didn't read the other nine parts, so I didn't read this one either

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: Daredevil Annual 5

   

Title: Daredevil Annual
Issue Number: 5
Release Date: December 1989

Highlights

• Story I: A Friend In Need
• A story featuring the writing of Gerry Conway, the art of Mark Bagley, and inks by Sam de la Rosa
• First appearance of Leo Baxter, Serpent God, Wally Jordan, and Clarisse Jordan
• Leo Baxter is inside a local cafe and market complaining to the waitress about Dr. Tyrone's clinic
• Specifically, how they have his pal of twenty years, Wally, and won't let the two of them see each other
• Daredevil catches the story as he enters, pretending he's not paying attention
• As Leo heads outside, Daredevil picks up on the heartbeats of multiple people
• Outside, Leo is surrounded by serpent men and women
• As Leo is attacked, Daredevil intervenes
• Leo goes for a shotgun in his jeep, but Daredevil knocks it away with his club as the man aims and fires at one of the reptiles
• As the serpents retreat, Leo begs Daredevil to help get his pal back
• We get the origin of Wally and Leo's youthful friendship
• Turns out that the two were alcoholics, and eventually Wally got married to Clarisse, much to Leo's dismay
• Wally continued to drink, was also abusive, and ended up in the hospital, after getting out, he sought out Dr. Tyrone to get help
• Daredevil turns him down
• As Leo leaves, Dr. Strange appears, and makes the same request of the man without fear
• Reference is made to The Punisher Annual 2, and The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual 9
• Viper goes to Dr. Tyrone, and explains how her facility has been destroyed by The Punisher and Moon Knight
• Dr. Tyrone invites her to stay
• In her head, she seethes over accepting a man's help, and vows to kill him so she won't be indebted to him
• Dr. Tyrone reveals to Viper that he's really Tyrannus, and shows her his pet, the captive Spider-Man
• Tyrannus intends on using Viper as a vessel to resurrect Set
• Outside, Leo infiltrates the compound
• Tyrannus is informed of his presence, and sends Spider-Man to retrieve his head
• We see through Spider-Man's eyes that the spell he's under reflects Leo as a monster instead of his human self, causing Spidey to attack
• Daredevil intervenes, and as Leo runs for safety, he comes face to face with Wally, now a serpent
• Meanwhile, Spider-Man and Daredevil's battle destroys the damn controls, sending a flood of water towards the compound
• Dr. Strange saves Leo by trapping the other lizards in the crimson bands of cyttorak
• During all of this, Tyrannus begins the summoning resurrection of Set
• Strange intervenes, but the incantation is done
• Except it's not Set, it's a demon from the dimension of Dormammu
• Tyrannus doesn't care, as long as the being is bound to his control
• Tyrannus's mind control over Viper slips loose, and she flings him into the pentagram on the floor, causing him to also loose control of the demon that swallows him whole
• Strange sends the demon back to its domain
• With Tyrannus gone, Spider-Man is once again himself
• In one last act, Dr. Strange returns all the lizard folks back to their human forms
• Leo tells Wally that he can now go back to his wife and kids, but Wally tells him they don't want him around, and further, he doesn't want to be there
• Leo gets angry when Wally also tells him they were never friends, just drinking buddies, and tries to shoot him
• Daredevil once again stops him
• Story II: Role Reversal
• Art by Jim Lee
• Story III: Super Senses Comparison
• Art by Mark Bagley
• Story IV: The Rescue
• John Romita Jr., inked by Klaus Janson
• Story IV: The Redeemed And The Condemned
• Art by Wilce Portacio, inked by Al Milgrom
• Story V: Saga Of The Serpent Crown Chapter VII
• Art by Mark Bagley, inked by Keith Williams

Low Points

• Story I: A Friend In Need
• Odd ending
• The remainder of the annual has nothing to do with Spider-Man, and I didn't feel like reading another twenty-nine pages

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual 9

   

Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual
Issue Number: 9
Release Date: September 1989

Highlights

• Story I: The Serpent In The Shadow
• First appearance of Brother Elton
• Many folks are flocking to the West Side Armory to get Dr. Tyrone's miracle cure for drugs and alcohol addiction, which Spider-Man is taking photos of in hopes of selling to the Bugle
• Dr. Tyrone administers the injection to a man on the stage, and he professes that his shakes and chills have gone away instantly
• Spidey spots Cloak, and when he attempts to get answers as to why he's there, Cloak vanishes
• Dagger intervenes, but it's only a distraction for Cloak to fold Spider-Man inside of him, and both of them vanish
• From a monitor, Ghaur watches Dagger, and proclaims she'll make a good bride for Set, and to mark her
• In a conversation between Cloak and Dagger, we learn that Cloak was there to seek out the cure from Dr. Tyrone for himself
• Dr. Tyrone turns out to be Tyrannus, and he takes Dagger captive
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 23, Captain America 344, and Marvel Team-Up 111
• As Peter develops his film, he notices a serpent tattoo on Brother Elton's wrist, and heads to the Armory for answers
• Spider-Man intercepts Cloak on the way, and learns of Dagger being taken
• Spider-Man sneaks inside the Armory, and unknown to him, Cloak phases through the walls and floors, following Dagger's light directly to her
• Dr. Tyrone tells Cloak to get him a certain book in a museum, or else he won't release Dagger from her comatose state
• Meanwhile, Spider-Man comes across junkies strapped to gurneys, and wonders why they are being restrained
• Within mere moments, Cloak returns with the book, and Tyrone orders him to be killed
• Lizard creatures attack, and we learn that these are the junkies, who have been transformed with a lizard serum created by Viper
• An explosion knocks Dagger out of her trance, and gives Cloak the needed opportunity to engulf her, and vanish to safety
• Back at the ambulances, Spider-Man witnesses a man transform into a lizard
• In a cliffhanger ending, Spider-Man is captured by Dr. Tryone
• Story II: Free Fall
• First appearance of Charles Weiser, and Nattie
• First appearance and death of Neal Mulligan
• This story evolves around Hobie Brown and his persona, the Prowler
• Working at a construction site, Hobie sees Neal Mulligan falling from the rafters, and though he attempts to save him, he fails
• Hobie returns home for a night out with his wife, but instead finds a note on the fridge stating that class is running late
• Hobie heads to his drawing table, and continues work on the safety devices he was designing, but just as he gets started, he falls asleep
• When Mindy returns home, she wakes him, and he shows her the designs for the compact glider
• Mindy tells Hobie he needs to sell the design to someone who can execute them
• He tells her they aren't ready due to some design flaws
• Thinking she's helping, Mindy takes the plans when Hobie falls back asleep, and the next morning delivers them to Hammer Industries
• Hobie freaks out when he finds out
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 305
• That night, Hobie suits up as the Prowler, but as he heads to Hammer Industries to steal his designs back, he sees someone stealing classified microfilms from one of Hammer's competitors
• The thief is using the glider design he created
• Prowler easily defeats him, and after unmasking him, learns he's an employee of Hammer named Charles Weiser, and the only reason he committed the crime was because Hammer promised him a promotion
• Story III: The 25 Most Important Women In My Life
• The fun art of Fred Hembeck returns for another gallery, this time on the women Peter and Spider-Man are fond of in their lives
• Story IV: Sweet Revenge
• Mary Jane's first solo story
• Mary Jane sneaks out at night, and makes her way to the state prison
• She subdues a guard, and steals his keys, making her way to Jonathan Caesar's cell
• After a cheeky encounter with him, she tell him she wants her life back
• Mary Jane pulls out a revolver and shoots him dead
• She awakens at a modeling interview to her name being called
• Inside the office, she's once again turned down for the job
• As she leaves, the man makes a call, and informs the individual on the other line that Caesar owes him one
• Mary Jane returns to Aunt May's home to a surprise birthday party
• Two days later, Jonathan Caesar receives a photograph from Mary Jane of her and Peter embraced in a kiss
• Story V: Saga Of The Serpent Crown Part VI
• First appearance of Regina

Low Points

• These Atlantis Attacks annuals are too long, and extremely difficult to get through
• Story I: The Serpent In The Shadow
• Having not read all the various annuals across Marvel Comics, I've no clue what happened to She-Hulk from The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 23
• This story is continued in Daredevil Annual 9
• This in and of itself is a problem, see oddities
• Story V: Saga Of The Serpent Crown Part VI
• It has nothing to do with Spider-Man, and since I'm not reading the other chapters, I skipped this one

Oddities

• Story I: The Serpent In The Shadow
• Editor's Day Off: After meeting a group of homeless people, Spider-Man thinks about his living situation with Aunt May, and concludes, "At least we have place a live."
• Editor's Continued Day Off: In the same panel of a typo, Spider-Man's eye lenses are colored red

• Is The Editor Coming Back: As Spider-Man spies on some ambulances, he thinks, "I have a read bad feeling about this."

• Editor Is Fired! The end of the story references that it continues in Daredevil Annual 9
• The problem is that Daredevil was only up to Annual 4 at this point
• Further the cliffhanger ending of Story VI references Daredevil Annual 4 as the continuation point
• Story II: Free Fall
• Odd cliffhanger ending where Hobie learns that Mulligan was dead before hitting the ground, having gotten his skull bashed in while walking the rafters

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 23

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual
Issue Number: 23
Release Date: September 1989

Highlights

• This annual features seven stories, including part four of Atlantis Attacks, which spread across the entire Marvel universe's annuals in 1989
• The artwork inside is from some of Marvel's greatest, including up and comers Mark Bagley, and Rob Liefeld
• Story I: Abominations
• Artwork by Rob Liefeld
• First appearance of Sam Ewing
• Reference is made to X-Men Annual 13, and Iron Man Annual 10
• Mary Jane surprises Peter at work with an invitation to lunch
• Jennifer Walters, AKA She-Hulk storms out of J. Jonah Jameson's office, shouting at him, and turning green in the process
• Tyrannus, trapped in the body of Abomination demands that Ghaur free him from it, to which he's told will happen, but that another essence must take his place
• We see that Ghaur has Emil Blonsky prisoner, the original Abomination, and he intends to use him as the essence
• The massive energy used to make the transfer sparks across New York, garnering the attention of She-Hulk and Spider-Man
• The transfer works, but is too much for Emil, turning Abomination into a mindless monster
• Ghaur watches the fight, concluding that She-Hulk is what he needs for his next phase - To make her the wife of the God, Set
• Flash Thompson follows the noise of the battle, and as Abomination escapes, he's left to watch over an unconscious Spider-Man while She-Hulk pursues
• The heroes go into battle with the creature
• She-Hulk continues the battle without Spider-Man, and once she's knocked temporarily unconscious, Ghaur imprints her with the mark of Set
• Meanwhile, Spider-Man rejoins the fight
• In an epilogue ending, Dr. Tryon goes to see Viper in her prison cell, looking to help each other
• Story II - My Science Project
• Artwork by Mark Bagley
• A flashback story to Peter's youth during high school, prior to him getting spider powers
• Uncle Ben is still alive and well
• Story III - Uncanny Spider-Sense
• A story focusing on Spidey's spider-sense, and how it works
• Story IV - Standards Of Behavior
• Nick Katzenberg is at Aunt May's home, attempting to move in as one of her tenants
• His nefarious goal is to learn the connection between Peter and Spider-Man
• Nick's "charm" oozes like a reptile, and May picks up on it right away, banishing him from her home
• Story V - Spider-Man's Top 30 Villain Countdown
• Fun art by Fred Hembeck
• It's a rollout of Spidey's rogue gallery, all set to the quirky art of Fred
• Story VI - The Saga Of The Serpent Crown Part IV
• Art by Mark Bagley, inked by Keith Williams
• Death of King Kamuu, Queen Zartra, and Emperor Phraug
• First appearance and death of Antilia
• First appearance of the location, Atra's Sanctum

Low Points

• Good art can't save this over bloated mix match of stories from not being a sludge to get through
• It's too long
• Story I: Abominations
• It's continued in Punisher Annual 2
• Story II - My Science Project
• It's really just a retelling of Amazing Fantasy 15 from a different perspective
• Story VI - The Saga Of The Serpent Crown Part IV
• The story has nothing to do at all with Spider-Man
• It too continues in Punisher Annual 2
• Unless you read fourteen different Annuals, you're not going to get the full story of the two main arcs, making this Annual pointless to read
• $2.00 was a lot of money for a kid back in 1989, and having them drop this on a book that doesn't even contain a relevant story to the next issue of Spider-Man is kind of crummy
• What kid had twenty-eight dollars in 1989 to buy fourteen comic books?

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Daredevil 270

   

Title: Daredevil
Issue Number: 270
Release Date: September 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of Blackheart
• First appearance and death of Abigail Houseman, Sarah, and Peter
• First appearance of the location, Christ's Crown
• The story opens on a hilltop in Christ's Crown where Abigail Houseman lies dead
• The story explains how evil grips the hill, and over the centuries more deaths have occurred here, yet in their wake, the hill has blossomed in thorny roses
• Present times bring Sarah and Peter to the hill, but when Peter attempts to take advantage of the girl, Blackheart appears from beneath the ground
• Blackheart kills them both
• In the wake of his first kill, his father, Mephisto appears before him, and congratulates him
• Mephisto transforms him into human form, and tells him when he meets a worthy adversary that he can reveal his true self
• He instructs him that if too many eyes of man see his true form that he will lose his powers
• Balancing on his hands atop a roller coaster track, Daredevil laments over recent events with Typhoid Mary, but says he's back to top physical form
• Blackheart approaches, and while Daredevil can smell his burnt rose scent, he cannot detect his location
• Blackheart attacks
• From a passenger seat on a bus, Peter Parker sees the wreckage of the roller coaster from the window
• Daredevil goes toe to toe against Blackheart, but his attacks don't make any impact
• As Blackheart swings a brutal fist, Spider-Man intervenes, kicking him away from DD
• A crowd gathers near the fight, and Daredevil sees an opportunity to electrocute Blackheart with a down power line
• Spider-Man catches on that it's what the creature wants, and stops him at the last second
• They instead realize they need to knock him out
• The gathered crowd watching depletes Blackhearts powers fast, and he retreats
• Blackheart returns to his hill, angry, tired, and wishing he were dead so he could rest

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man 54

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 54
Release Date: September 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of Susan Ransome
• The gang war between Los Hermanos Lobos and Kingpin is in full swing
• The Lobo brothers make their way to Kingpin's office to confront the man as he sits motionless in his chair
• Reference is made to The Spectacular Spider-Man 153
• Spider-Man is struggling after being injected with a virus by J. Jonah Jameson (Chameleon)
• Detective Frank Farrow leads Joy Mercado and Nick Katzenberg through the wreckage of Kingpin's tower in the aftermath of the battle
• Turns out that Kingpin was a robot decoy, and the Lobo's tore it apart in rage, leaving another message in blood on the wall
• Kingpin - You can run but you cannot hide"
• A sick Spider-Man makes his way home, but not before Nick snaps a picture of him peaking through the window of Kingpin's office
• Peter sneaks in through the basement, only to come face to face with all the boarders who tell him there's been an accident
• Peter passes out before they can go into detail
• Peter wakes up two days later in bed, with Mary Jane near him
• Mary Jane has changed her hair style

• Peter sees the photo in the paper, labeling Spider-Man as connected to the gang war
• Peter and Mary Jane go to visit Kristy in the hospital, and learn from her doctor, Susan Ransome, that she has signs of bulimia and anorexia
• Mary Jane explodes on Peter when he asks what she thinks of the situation
• She's tired of everyone's problems, and shouts that nobody cares about hers; living in Aunt May's house, her career in the toilet, and her life savings tied up in litigation over being evicted
• Spider-Man confronts Nick, and scares the whereabouts of Jameson out of him, learning he's at his home
• Spidey heads to Jameson's house, and spies on him, but he's not fooling anyone, and is invited in to chat
• Chameleon attempts to kill him, and reveals his true form in the process
• Chameleon escapes, and in the aftermath, Spidey finds the tied up real J. Jonah Jameson

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Spectacular Spider-Man 153

   

Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 153
Release Date: August 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of Armand
• Death of Bruiser
• Bruiser is out of solitary confinement from his last prison fight, and is impressed with Robbie having bulked up a bit
• Robbie informs him he's worked out twice a day since that day
• Robbie asks why Bruiser is helping him, and is told he reminds the big man of his brother Stu
• Stu apparently was well learned, and wanted to be a lawyer
• When Robbie asks if he ever achieved his goal, Bruiser informs him he doesn't know because he hasn't see his brother in fifteen years
• Tombstone eyes the two working out, and tells his prison gang members that tonight they're doing the big guy
• Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 53, which narration tells us this issue of The Spectacular Spider-Man takes place ten minutes after Spider-Man went into the East River
• Spidey is headed for Kingpin's tower, but is met by gunfire from a gang he's not familiar with
• They're dressed in old time gangster suits
• J. Jonah Jameson (Chameleon) calls for Spider-Man to follow him through a building's door
• He questions why Jameson is there, but doesn't look a gift horse in the mouth
• It's apparently all part of the plan, and Hammerhead orders his men to cease fire once Spidey is inside
• Making her way back to Aunt May's house, Mary Jane sees an ambulance there, and someone coming out on a stretcher
• It's Kristy, and she's had a mild heart attack, even though she's only thirteen years old
• Robbie and Bruiser make their way to the showers after working out, only to walk right into an ambush
• Bruiser is struck by several sharp projectiles from silenced weapons
• The two retreat to solitary confinement, and lock themselves inside
• Tombstone tells Armand to go get a key from their friendly trustee
• Inside the building, Spider-Man's spidey senses continue to go off, and as he questions Jameson, gunfire riddles the building, and Hammerhead's thugs burst in
• As Spider-Man is distracted by the fight, Jameson sneaks a syringe from his coat, and sticks the hero with a virus, blacking him out
• Back in the prison, Bruiser has had Robbie pull all the shrapnel from him, and he makes his way to his feet as Tombstone swings open the door
• Tombstone gives Bruiser one chance to submit, but is met by a fist from the man
• Meanwhile, a drugged Spider-Man battles Hammerhead
• As Tombstone beats Bruiser into submission, he gives him one final chance to beg, he refuses
• On the other hand, Hammerhead thinks he's done the same to Spider-Man, but gets socked right in the mouth, and then pummeled by the hero who then retreats to stop the gang war
• As Tombstone beats Bruiser to death, he congratulates him on not begging, and figuring out he was going to die anyway
• After the deed, Tombstone tells Robbie they need to talk, one-on-one
• Before their conversation can start, an alarm sounds in the prison, causing prisoners to scatter back to their cages
• Outside Kingpin's tower, Spider-Man wants to take a moment to rest, but this too is cut short by gunfire erupting from the building
• The final page informs that the story continues in Web Of Spider-Man 54

Low Points

• Still a long and drawn out story, but at least the gang war has finally started

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man 53

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 53
Release Date: August 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of Emilio, and Raoul
• Spider-Man tracks down a U-Rent truck in Manhattan, led to believe by the Arranger that it contains stolen weapons
• The information is correct, and gunfire rings out as he jumps on top of the vehicle
• After webbing all the criminals up, Spider-Man speaks to them in Spanish - I guess he's bilingual
• Spider-Man learns of the war that will begin at midnight against the Lobo brothers and Kingpin
• Spidey call the Arranger and fills him in
• Reference is made to The Spectacular Spider-Man 143, and Web Of Spider-Man 51
• The Arranger is afraid to give this information to Kingpin, since it was he who sent the Punisher to attempt an assassination on the Lobo brothers, which started all of this
• At the Bugle, Peter tells Kate Cushing about the upcoming war, and questions if Jameson will publish it
• They go to ask him, but are told all they have is rumors, and that he won't publish anything about it
• Peter's spidey senses to continue to go off in the presence of Jameson (Chameleon), but he can't figure out why
• Joy Mercado stops Peter on his way out, and asks if he's got time to talk, specifically about Gloria Grant, and the trouble Joy thinks she's in
• At a coffee shop, Joy shows Peter the photos of Gloria with her boyfriend, and informs Peter his name is Eduardo Lobo
• The puzzle pieces immediately click, and Peter understands why his spidey senses were going off around the man
• Peter walks through the parking garage and his spidey senses once again go off
• Though he doesn't see the initial threat, it's from Chameleon and Hammerhead meeting in a car, reveling over the coming gang war
• Mary Jane tells Aunt May and Kristy that she's off to work, and will miss Peter coming home again
• But is she really? Remember, Jonathan Caesar is blocking all of her modeling work, and she's been spending her nights out dancing
• Meanwhile, Kristy has got a lot of strange bruises all over her skin, and Aunt May takes notice
• Aunt May also notes she's gotten incredibly thin
• Remember, Kristy had a secret a few issues ago when Peter heard her sick in the bathroom
• Kristy overheard the conversation with Mary Jane and Peter about the coming gang war, and says she's worried about him, and him finding out she loves him because she knows if he finds out that they'll send her away
• A skin and bones Kristy looks in the mirror and tells herself that she's so fat
• She wishes she was thin and beautiful like Mary Jane
• Spider-Man enters Gloria's apartment looking for her, but instead finds shredded clothing with an "L" on it, deducing it belongs to Eduardo Lobo
• In the pocket is a receipt for an aircraft hanger rental
• Kingpin's tower is on lockdown, and security efforts increased
• The windows are now bullet proof, double the guards are on sight, and each has a briefcase with nerve gas
• Meanwhile multiple entry points have been rigged with explosives, and the windows covered with titanium barriers
• The Arranger updates Kingpin, who tells him that when the fight is over they will discuss the problems he has created
• Spider-Man heads to the hanger, and is immediately met by gunfire
• He dispatches the men quickly, but is attacked by two wolves, who announce themselves as Los Hermanos Lobos, The Brother Wolves
• Spidey finally understands - the Lobo brothers are werewolves
• The fight is cut short by the Lobo's schedule, as they break away, and board a helicopter
• Spider-Man lands a web line on it, and tags along for the ride
• His trip is cut short by gunfire which forces him to jump into the river
• The helicopter arrives at the Kingpin's tower, directly outside the Arranger's window
• The issues ends on a cliffhanger ending with Aunt May frantically pounding on the bathroom door for Kristy, being told by her boarders that she's been in there for hours
• Kristy is lying on the floor, unresponsive

Low Points

• I'm admittedly getting a bit tired of this storyline
• It's drawn out way longer than it feels like it needs to be
• The whole Lobos / Kingpin war, and Chameleon posing as Jameson isn't all that interesting an aspect to dwell this long on it
• Now we have the whole cliché Kristy storyline coming into the mix
• We never see where Mary Jane is
• Did she actually get a modeling job? Or is she out dancing again?

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 319

   

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

Low Points

• TBD

Oddities

• TBD

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 318

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 318
Release Date: August 1989

Highlights

• McFarlane hid three spiders on the cover, can you find them?
• Here's a hint, look for two different styles
• First appearance of General Chester Musgrave, Sholly, Morris, and Watanabe
• Scorpion is training with his new tail, which now features a deadly acid spewing stinger, as well as enhanced flexibility and movement
• He's received the enhancement from Justin Hammer, who's hired him to kidnap General Musgrave, but Scorpion has his own agenda as well, the death of J. Jonah Jameson
• Hammer intends to give Musgrave to "certain parties in Europe" in exchange for favorable trade agreements
• Reference is made to "various issues" of Iron Man, and "current issues" of Web Of Spider-Man and The Spectacular Spider-Man
• Reference is also made to The Amazing Spider-Man 312
• Peter and Mary Jane are looking at another apartment, but it's neither attractive nor affordable for them
• Mary Jane has at least finally landed another modeling job
• Peter asks Jameson (still Chameleon in disguise) for a photo assignment, but is told nothing is available as he storms by and slams his office door closed behind him
• Joy Mercado tells Peter that Jonah is acting weird even for himself, and it's like he's not himself
• After being kept waiting all day for her photo assignment, Mary Jane is told the buyer has opted to go in a different direction, and that they'll call her if something comes up
• See oddities
• After a brief fight with Peter over being out all night, the two quickly make up
• Also keeping odd hours is Norman Osborn, who sneaks away from his family at 3:00 AM to an old building his dad used to own
• There, he has a Green Goblin suit, and states he has one more task to complete before setting his mater plan in motion
• While walking to class, Peter comes across Sholly, who's making protest signs with her fellow classmates
• She tells Peter that they're going to demonstrate at the National Guard Armory where General Musgrave is receiving a medal, and asks if Peter wants to tag along
• Though he hates cutting class, he does think that some photos would possibly be sellable to the Bugle
• Both Spider-Man and Scorpion make their way to the Armory for the ceremony
• Apparently another upgrade to Scorpion's tail is that it can inject hypnogen into people, allowing him to extract information from them under interrogation
• As Spidey takes photos of the event, he notices Joy Mercado and Lance Bannon in the the crowd, and realizes that there's no way Jameson will buy his photos with Lance getting clear shots from right up front
• Scorpion burst in, and Spider-Man is quick to jump into action
• We learn of another new upgrade to Scorpion's suit, that being a transparent membrane over his eyes, which vaporizes anything that touches it, including Spidey's webs
• As Lance Bannon snaps photos, he exclaims that these will help Jameson sell thousands of papers
• This is all Scorpion needs to hear to alter his plans
• Not wanting to help make Jameson more money, he takes Musgrave captive, and tells everyone to bring him Jameson in one hour, or the general dies
• Did you find the hidden spiders?
• The first one is located in the top portion of the brick wall, near Spider-Man's left foot
• The second one is located in the bottom portion of the brick wall, near Spider-Man's right foot
• The last one is a different style from these two, and hidden in the rubble underneath Scorpion's right fist

• If there's a hidden Felix the Cat in this issue, I couldn't find him
• This story checks a lot of boxes
• Action
• Mystery
• Suit upgrades
• Cliffhanger ending
• Fantastic McFarlane art

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Let's pause right on the front cover
• If Scorpion is wearing a mask, why are his teeth showing?
• This appears to be an aspect of his costume, and it makes no sense
• After being let go from her modeling assignment, Mary Jane goes out dancing with random men until 3:00 AM
• Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but that wouldn't work for me if I was her husband

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

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Comics Corner: The Sensational She-Hulk 3

   

Title: The Sensational She-Hulk
Issue Number: 3
Release Date: July 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of She-Clone
• Spider-Man's spidey senses keep going off around an abandoned factory, and when he investigates closer, he sees Mysterio inside
• Mysterio heads outside, and gets into a car, which Spider-Man tags with a spider tracer, and follows
• The Headmen, Ruby Thursday, Arthur Nagan, and Jerry Morgan work on a robotic clone of She-Hulk, but she currently has no head
• All the action is skipped, and suddenly, Spider-Man is showing Mysterio that his briefcase was full of fake money
• See oddities
• Mysterio tells Spider-Man he was working for the Headmen
• Back in the Headmen's lab, Chondu the Mystic, also a member of the team, but an uncontrollable one, has broken free of where they had him, and he's wigging out about something
• Spider-Man crashes the party, and webs up Chondu, but Ruby Thursday keeps the battle going
• Spidey makes short order of Ruby and Arthur, but Jerry sends the headless She-Clone into the fray
• The head of the She-Clone realizes that she has no body, and begins to panic
• Meanwhile Spidey gets caught, and the scientists ponder who they should use for their experiments between he and She-Hulk
• Elsewhere, Louise Mason catches up with Blake Tower, and informs him Stilt-Man is on the hunt for him
• Back in the lab, the Headmen have put Chondu's head on the body of She-Hulk, and this freaks him out
• Nagan informs him he couldn't use Spider-Man's body because of his mutagenic raditation
• Chondu doesn't care, and demands he find a way, as he picks up the hero's body
• Spidey isn't unconscious though, and punches Chondu's head clean off
• The Headmen try to escape in a battle vehicle, but She-Hulk rips it to shreds with her bare hands

Low Points

• It's not a very well written story
• It's never explained where the real She-Hulk came from all of a sudden, and we only get a brief three panel explanation about the She-Clone, literally right at the end of the story

Oddities

• The story takes a one-page sidebar for She-Hulk to tell jokes, and when it cuts back, Spider-Man has already defeated Mysterio, and taken his briefcase

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

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Comics Corner: Marc Spector: Moon Knight 2

   

Title: Marc Spector: Moon Knight
Issue Number: 2
Release Date: July 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of Burunda, a small country in Africa
• A couple kids walk the streets with their telescope, and spot Moon Knight standing on the roof near the embassy of Burunda
• The narration explains that inside is his lover, Marlene Alraune, held captive by Raoul Bushman
• Moon Knight makes reference to someone watching Disney, and the irony over thirty years later is laughable
• Moon Knight is spotted on the embassy surveillance, and Bushman orders his messenger to communicate his demands, and also his personal guards are informed the hunt is on
• The messenger leaves the embassy, and Moon Knight follows, only to walk into a trap of the personal guards
• Moon Knight tells Frenchie to stay on the other man while he handles the soldiers
• Spider-Man sees the soldiers running into Central Park and decides to follow, taking pictures, of course
• Moon Knight makes short order of them, and when the battle is over, Spider-Man swings away
• Moon Knight confronts the messenger, and gases him unconscious
• Back in the embassy Bushman taunts Marlene, telling her that Moon Knight better meet his demands
• When the messenger comes to, he's hanging upside down from Moon Knight's plane
• The messenger tells him Bushman wants ten million dollars, or he'll hack Marlene to bits
• Moon Knight throws the messenger from the plane, low enough to not kill him
• At home, Marc yells at Hal that he needs ten million dollars, but is told his money is tied up in investemnts
• When his response is to sell them, he's informed he can't just do that as it would cripple his other investors, and not to mention the damage it would cause to all the employees working at those businesses
• Marc informs Frenchie he's cash poor, so they'll have to do it his way
• Inside the embassy, Moon Knight fights his way to Marlene
• Unfortunately, he only finds a television with Bushman on it, informing him he's taken the girl back to Burunda

Low Points

• Spider-Man's involvement begins and ends with him taking photos of Moon Knight beating down Bushman's personal guards
• A decent story, but hardly worth reading for Spider-Man's chronology

Oddities

• Marc disguises himself as a cable installation specialist to infiltrate the embassy

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

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Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man 52

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 52
Release Date: July 1989

Highlights

• Death of Sam and Danny
• J. Jonah Jameson lies chained to his bed, and screams unheard for Spider-Man who is swinging by his window
• Chameleon gives Jameson a few more links in his chain, with the intensions of allowing him to read the paper
• He also explains why he's impersonating the man
• Reference is made to "current issues" of The Spectacular Spider-Man
• Flashback twenty years ago to a young J. Jonah Jameson chasing a story at a local bar
• As he asks Sam for information on the corrupt police department, shots ring out, and Sam is left dead
• Jameson sees the shooter, and it's a cop
• Back to present time, Jameson kicks his mirror, breaking off a piece of glass, and using it to cast a light beam through his window
• He attempts to signal the traffic copter that flies by each day, but it doesn't work
• Back to the past, young Jameson bursts into his editor's office, demanding to know why his story on corrupt cops was buried
• He's told off by his boss, who also demands facts
• As Jameson storms off, he tells the young copyboy, Danny, that if he ever becomes editor, he'll treat his writers with respect
• Yeah...
• Danny asks if he can tag along, and when the two exit the office, they're met on the street by Officer Kenner, and a couple other cops who give them both a beating
• Two mysterious men watch from a car
• Back in the present, Jonah has cut himself on the mirror shard, and uses it as lubricant to try to slip the cuff
• Returning to the past, William Walter Goodman appears to be one of the men who watch Jonah get beat up, and he just so happens to own the Daily Bugle
• Goodman gives Jameson his first cigar, and then offers him a job
• Jameson accepts
• Returning to current events, Jameson is able to slip his one hand free, and begins stretching for the key that Chameleon left on a dresser, just out of reach
• Young Jameson has found a new informant, Officer Michael O'Hill, an eighteen year veteran of the force
• O'Hill gives him a key to a locker at the bus station, and tells him there's a notebook inside with every cop's name who's on the take
• At the bus station, Kenner is walking around, so Jameson gives Danny the key, who apparently has come to work with him at the Bugle
• Danny sneaks off to open the locker, and Jameson realizes what's going on, but it's too late
• As the boy opens the locker door, the bomb goes off, killing him
• Jameson reaches the key and frees himself, but passes out from the pain and exhaustion of everything
• Meanwhile, in his flashback, young Jameson is also passed out from drinking his guilt away
• He's woken by Goodman
• Goodman tells him that while it's his fault the boy is dead, he asks what he's going to do about it - quit, or fight?
• The panels alter between the present and past as current times Jameson crawls for his penthouse elevator, and past Jameson confronts Kenner in his own office at the station
• Jameson from the past is wearing a hidden radio that his boss is recording on the other end, and Kenner is caught confessing
• Unfortunately for current time Jameson, as the elevator opens, the Chameleon steps off of it
• Jameson is shackled around his legs and arms, and locked in a closet in his skivvies, but he thinks to himself that he's gotten out of worse

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Spectacular Spider-Man 152

    

Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 152
Release Date: July 1989

Highlights

• Death of Eslmelda and Ramone Valdez
• The Lobo brothers bare down on Spider-Man, who is struggling with a wounded J. Jonah Jameson
• They each grab on, and make their kill
• Gloria Grant awakens in her apartment screaming from the nightmare
• She thinks that Eduardo becoming a werewolf was also a dream
• It's not - He perches on the other end of her bed in wolf form
• Outside Gloria's apartment, Joy Mercado continues her stake out
• Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 51, and The Spectacular Spider-Man 143
• Spider-Man swings across the sky, headed to a warehouse to infiltrate a weapon delivery to the Lobo brothers
• He got the information from the Arranger after reluctantly agreeing to help stop the gang war
• Carlos Lobo is there in wolf form, and knocks Spider-Man through the wall, dumping him in the river
• When he crawls out of the water, everyone is gone, and so are the weapons
• Peter meets Flash Thompson and Harry Osborn for lunch, and learns that Flash has called them all together to reform the Spidey Appreciation Society (his club from high school) to help combat the recent smear campaigns in the Bugle
• In prison, Robbie tells Bruiser how he got there, and in turn is told by the big man that prison has different rules
• Bruiser tells Robbie to take off when some prisoners and Tombstone come up behind them
• Bruiser makes short order of them, and as he's being hauled off to solitary, makes sure to tell Tombstone that he knows he won't dare touch Robbie while he's gone because even he needs to follow the rules
• Fortunately, when Bruiser called Robbie his special friend, that didn't mean what I initially thought
• Phew
• Spider-Man meets with the Arranger and tells him that his mission to stop the weapons getting in the Lobo's hands failed
• Arranger tells him he needs to try again, or be responsible for the innocent that will be hurt if a gang war errupts
• Back in Gloria's apartment, she asks Eduardo why he didn't kill her, and instead of an answer gets his origin story, and why he's there to kill Kingpin
• He admits he doesn't want to kill her becuase he loves her
• Peter returns home, and confides in Mary Jane about the Arranger and upcoming gang war
• Outside the room, Kristie Watson is eaves dropping, and the story ends on a cliffhanger narrating that she too has a secret that may kill her

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Spectacular Spider-Man 151

   

Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 151
Release Date: June 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of Bruiser, and Manny
• Spider-Man sneaks into the prison yard to talk to Robbie Robertson through his window bars
• Robbie begs him to leave so that it he isn't seen, and it potentially ruins any parole hearings
• Spidey states he doesn't want to cause him trouble, but if he ever needs him to have his son Randy contact Peter Parker
• As Spidey leaves, Tombstone congratulates him on sending the hero away
• A guard at the prison spots Spider-Man on the security camera, and decides to take the Bugle up on its printed report of a $1,000.00 reward for evidence proving Spider-Man is a criminal
• Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 50, 51, and The Amazing Spider-Man 314
• Gloria Grant goes to see Eduardo Lobo to tell him she feels guilty and afraid for giving him the file on Kingpin from the Bugle
• He manipulates her into going home, and says they'll talk later
• Betty Brant and Flash Thompson sit in Lazy Louie's Louisiana Luncheonette, enjoying Cajun food, but hating the headline in the Bugle about Spider-Man breaking into the prison
• Gloria Grant comes in looking frazzled, and confesses to the two that her boyfriend is a mobster
• In Hartsdale, New Mexico, Thomas Firehart, AKA Puma, reads the article, and sees it as an opportunity to relieve himself of his debt of honor to Spider-Man
• Mary Jane and Peter Parker stand on a sidewalk reading classified ads on available apartments, noting their either too small, too expensive, or both
• Mary Jane loses her temper when Peter says they at least have a roof over their heads at Aunt May's House
• She says how much she hates it, and how hard she had to work to be able to get the home they had at the Bedford Condominium
• Peter assures her they'll get it all back
• Peter's mood suddenly shifts as he notices the headline in the paper
• As he storms off he shouts that he's had enough of Jonah's (Chameleon's) smear campaign against him, and that he intends to put a stop to it now
• Back in prison, Tombstone has Robbie trapped in the laundry room, surrounded by other prisoners
• He asks in front of them if editors at the Bugle type the articles on people, or if they tell others to do it
• Tombstone is stopped by Bruiser who takes hold of him by the neck
• Bruiser asks Robbie to be his "special friend"
• Yeesh

• Spider-Man confronts Nick Katzenberg and demands to know if it was him or Jonah who came up with the smear campaign
• Kaztenberg immediately crumbles, stating it was Jonah
• Flash, Gloria, and Betty return to the Bugle to see Mr. Jameson, but Katzenberg burst in, pushing his way in front of them
• As the door to Jameson's office is open, Spider-Man is seen standing below him, with Jameson (Chameleon) webbed to the ceiling
• Spider-Man is demanding why Jameson is attacking him
• Katzenberg takes full opportunity, and snaps photos
• As the office erupts, Spider-Man sees everyone looking at him, and retreats
• After Jameson is free from the webbing, he orders the presses stopped, and Katzenberg's photo printed on page one with an article he will write himself
• Worried that she'll be fired, Gloria Grant admits to Jameson that she stole the Kingpin file, and gave it to Eduardo Lobo, and that a gang war will probably come from it all
• Jameson is pleased, stating it will make for great news articles walks away
• Transforming back to the Chameleon behind closed doors, the villain muses how the Lobo brothers will handle the dirty work for him, and he'll mop up the pieces, taking over New York in the process
• As Gloria returns to her apartment, Eduardo Lobo is waiting inside
• He informs her that his brother was right in how things would end, and transforms into a werewolf to kill her in a cliffhanger ending

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: As Tombstone chokes Robbie he tell him the were, "Friends till you turned me to the feds." Probably should have said, "Friends till you turned me into the feds."

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

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