Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 118

    

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 118
Release Date: September 1986

Highlights

• First appearance of Gary, Sal, Freddy Helms, and the 1400 Club
• Reference is made to Daredevil 233
• The prologue of the issue appears to take place during the events of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 117
• Foreigner calls Silver Sable, and asks her if she enjoyed the flowers, an even which took place from Sables perspective when she received a vase which exploded, and was followed by the call
• Steven Estevez, Alex Woolcot's teacher shows up at the Bugle looking for Peter, and asks him to help contact Spider-Man to find the missing boy and his father
• Alex shows up outside the Bugle, but when a couple cops approach him as a truant, he destroys their car with his powers, sending them flying
• Hearing the explosion, Spider-Man quickly catches up with Alex, but the kid panics, and attacks him
• S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives on scene, and unleashes Mandroids on Alex in an attempt to stop him
• Alex, thinking they are robots blasts one, melting the metal to the flesh of the man inside who screams in agony
• In response, S.H.I.E.L.D. authorizes deadly force
• Spider-Man intervenes, grabbing Alex, and making a run for it, but S.H.I.E.L.D. gives chase
• S.H.I.E.L.D. catches Alex off guard, and fills him full of holes - Is he dead? No.

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None 

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 118

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 118
Release Date: June 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of Matthew Power
• First appearance of the Scarsdale location
• Hot on the heels of the last issue, Wolverine invites Spider-Man back to Xavier's Mansion to "relax" in the Danger Room
• Reference is made to Micronauts 25, Captain America 286, and The Defenders 106
• Anthony Power's plan backfires, and he ends up destroying his fragile son's mind

Low Points

• Professor Xavier disciplines Wolverine verbally in front of Spider-Man, and Wolverine pulls his claws on the Professor, and tells him to basically watch what he says

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Wolverine says, "Keep on yer toes in here - or ya ya might lose 'em!"

• Web copter...'nuff said

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 118

      

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 118
Release Date: March 1973 

Highlights

• The conclusion of the reprinted and extended story arc from The Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine issue 1
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man issue 116
• Death of Doctor Thaxton, Diruptor (Richard M. Raleigh), and The Smasher
• It's essentially a Frankenstein's monster type story
  

Low Points

• Overall story works better as its one-shot magazine format, and not spread over three separate comic book issues
  

Oddities

• Because the Disruptor is also Richard M. Raleigh, there are a lot of scenes that don't make sense, because they're both presumed to be doing things seconds apart
  

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