Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 108

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 108
Release Date: November 1985

Highlights

• This issue immediately follows 107, and continues to occur at some point during the events of Web Of Spider-Man 11
• Death of Judge Horace Rosenthal, and Reverend Bernard Finn
• First appearance of Charles Bronson, Hugo Kelsey, and NYPD officer Arnie
• After getting blasted by Sin-Eater in the cliffhanger ending of last issue, Judge Rosenthal dies
• In an attempt to dodge Sin-Eater's shotgun fire, innocent people are hit with the shots
• Sin-Eater admits to Spider-Man he killed Captain Jean DeWolff
• Spider-Man see's Aunt May on the ground, and withdraws from the fight, but not before tossing a spider tracer on Sin-Eater, who immediately notices, and brushes it off
• After a quick change, Peter comes to his Aunt's side, turns out she's okay
• Detective Stanley Carter tells Spider-Man that he used to be a member of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• At the funerals of Jean, Stan see's Reverend Finn, and asks out loud if Sin-Eater takes requests, his colleague, Arnie calls him out for it
• While searching Jean DeWolff's apartment, Spider-Man comes across a drawer full of photos and articles about him, and realizes she like him - a lot
• Sin-Eater kill Reverand Finn in his church from a confessional box

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Defenders 108

   

Title: The Defenders
Issue Number: 108
Release Date: June 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of the Wasteland location
• Reference is made to The Defenders 4, and Marvel Team-Up 117
• Hulk disrupts Eden by starting a fight
• Barbara Norris's spirit leaves Valkyrie, and Valkyrie's soul returns to her body

Low Points

• It's a very confusing and difficult issue to read

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 108

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 108
Release Date: August 1981

Highlights

• First appearance of Bill Berkowski, Christine Michaels, and Thermo the Thermatronic Man, AKA Walter Michaels
• First appearance and death of Dr. Paul Bradshaw
• Condensed retelling of the burglar, and subsequent death of Uncle Ben
• Thermo kills Dr. Bradshaw because he finds the man comforting his wife for what happened to create Thermo, and mistakes the two for intentionally turning him into the villain so that they can be together
• Cameo appearance by Dazzler, and foreshadowing of her appearance next issue

Low Points

• Midway through reading this issue, July 1, G.I. Jigsaw dropped a bombshell on me that Jim Shooter had passed away

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Several panels with Spider-Man's lenses colored red

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 108

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 108
Release Date: May 1972 

Highlights

• The action is full on with this story that finally sheds light into Flash Thompson's Vietnam days
  
• First appearance of Sha Shan, AKA Sister Sun
• A delicious cliff hanger leaving Peter Parker with two options - Stay quite at Gwen's side, or admit he's Spider-Man and go after the kidnapped Flash
• Action packed from the first to the last page
  

Low Points

• Not what I expected would be the reason Flash was so torn up from Nam. A bit silly
  

Oddities

• None

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

 

 

 

 

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