Showing posts with label Issue 107. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Issue 107. Show all posts

Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 107

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 107
Release Date: October 1985

Highlights

  • First issue with the "All New, All Daring" header
  • The first issue of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man to adopt the tagline, "The all new, all daring" above the title
  • The events of this issue, plus 108, 109, and 110, which continue after each other, take place at come point during the events of Web Of Spider-Man 11
  • Origin and Death of Captain Jean DeWolff
  • First appearance of Sin-Eater, AKA Stanley Carter, Celia (DeWolff) Weatherby, Carl Weatherby, Russ, Sandy, Reverend Bernard Finn, Reverend Jackson Tolliver, Judge Horace Rosenthal, and Ernie Popchik
  • The police find Captain DeWolff dead in her apartment
  • Peter runs into Ernie Popchik downtown, one of Aunt May's new boarders
  • A trio of thugs grabs Ernie, mugs him, and beats him up, but Spider-Man is quickly on the scene to mop them up
  • When the cops arrive, they inform Spider-Man of Captain DeWolff's death, but that they have no suspects
  • While talking to Robbie Robertson about DeWolff's murder, J. Jonah Jameson admits that even people like Spider-Man don't deserve to be murdered, but not to quote him on that
  • Spider-Man meets up with Sergeant Stan Carter, who's been put in charge of the investigation for DeWolff's murder case
  • Carter explains that DeWolff was shot at close range with a double barrel shotgun, and that her badge is missing
  • As Daredevil swings across the city, he hears someone refer to him as the man without fear, and laughing to himself thinks that if he could see what he was doing, he'd be scared
  • Matt Murdock heads into Judge Horace's chambers sensing someone is in there, and gets confronted by Sin-Eater, who takes a shot at him
  • Judge Horace hears the gunfire, and enters the room, only to be shot by Sin-Eater
  • Finally, we're back to the good stories in Spider-Man
Low Points
  • Matt Murdock is representing the trio of thugs who beat up and robbed Ernie, and he gets them released on $500 bail each - What happened to not taking the case for people who aren't innocent?
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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Comics Corner: The Defenders 107

   

Title: The Defenders
Issue Number: 107
Release Date: may 1982

Highlights

  • Reference is made to The Defenders 4, 66 - 68. 104, 105, and Marvel Team-UP 116
  • Valkyrie is shot in the back, and presumed dead
  • Hellcat sees the ghost of Valkyrie
  • Valkyrie's ghost appears to more heroes, and Spider-Man, thinking it's not a spirit, attacks, only to go right through her
  • Enchantress teleports all the heroes to Asgard for a quest to save Valkyrie's soul in a cliffhanger ending
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 107

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 107
Release Date: July 1981

Highlights

  • First appearance and death of Hildy Dawes
  • Apparent death of Man-Killer
  • Reference is made to Daredevil 172, and Marvel Team-Up 8
  • Spider-Man and She-Hulk meet for the first time
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • Editor's Day Off: She-Hulk says to Spider-Man that Man-Killer's agents told her where Man-Killer was, and what her plans were...Except, they didn't
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 107

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 107
Release Date: April 1972

Highlights

  • Recap and reference panels to The Amazing Spider-Man 25 and 58
  • A mysterious car takes Flash Thompson away, with a tease of the story unfolding in the next issue - Can't wait!
Low Points
  • Why is this spider slayer spread across three issues? It's boring, but at least over...for now
Oddities
  • As action unfolds from one panel to the next, Spider-Man references a phone call he apparently made in the blink of an eye to the cops
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system) 
 

 
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