Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 103
Release Date: June 1985

Highlights

• First appearance of Ashley Cranford
• Ashley tells his college friends, Barry and Thomas, that he could run a hero ragged in a week, and when deciding which one to choose, he sees a bat fly by, and decides it's an omen, but then they opt for Spider-Man
• After a couple days of literally blazing advertisements, Thomas decides he wants out of the plan
• Ashley dresses as Blaze, and makes a video
• A mysterious person takes the costume, and Blaze is no longer a joke, but an actual villain
• Blaze blasts Thomas with his flame gun as the youth runs to save Spider-Man, burning his body severely
• Reference is made that the story takes place prior to Fantastic Four 278
• Thomas is not actually burned - Instead, it's a ruse he put in place with Peter Parker, and Johnny Storm to scare Ashley and Barry straight

Low Points

• What in the heck is going on with Spider-Man stories as of late? These are straight up dumb

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Panels with Spider-Man's eye lenses colored red

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 103

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 103
Release Date: March 1981

Highlights

• Second appearance of Taskmaster, AKA Tony Masters
• First appearance of "Slick" Mick Butler, Ollie, Mahoney, and Gus Sweezer
  
• Death of Gus Sweezer
• An action figure of Rom the Space Knight is among Cassie Lang's toys
• Reference is made to Avengers 195 and 196
• Taskmaster counters and thwarts every single attack from Spider-Man

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Scott Lang stands in front of his daughter in nothing but a towel

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Comics Corner: Daredevil 103

  

Title: Daredevil
Issue Number: 103
Release Date: September 1973

Highlights

• First appearance, and origin of Ramrod
  
• Reference is made to Daredevil issue 100 and Marvel Team-Up issue 12
• Ramrod makes an offhanded reference to Superman

Low Points

• Continuation from Marvel Team-Up 12
• Didn't particularly want to read a non-related Spider-Man title to continue a story that wasn't too good to begin with
• Only serves to show that Marvel Team-Up issue 12 was a throw away story with the only purpose being to establish that Peter Parker was in San Francisco

Oddities

• Ramrod loses his grip and falls just from seeing Black Widow is alive (he threw her off a building earlier), and that's the end of the story

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 103

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 103
Release Date: December 1971

Highlights

• First appearance of Gog
• Ka-Zar and Zabu battle side by side with Spider-Man
• Appearance from Kraven the Hunter
• J. Jonah Jameson continues to worry about his paper being usurped by television
• Interesting King Kong style tale
  

Low Points

• I'm not 100% sold on this kind of direction for a Spider-Man tale
  

Oddities

• Gwen Stacy was brought along for one purpose - To wear a red bikini and pose for pictures in Savage Land
  

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