Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 123

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 123
Release Date: November 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of Nurse Horowitz, Mickey Beehan, Mrs. Beehan, and Patrick "Peepers" Scanlon
• Reference is made to Marvel Two-In-One 57, Marvel Team-Up 121, and Amazing Spider-Man 232
• Officer Belker makes a return appearance from car 54 in Marvel Team-Up 121
• Spider-Man takes a blast of fire from Solarr leaving his costume in tatters, and his back bright red with burns

Low Points

• None

Oddities

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 123

  

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 123
Release Date: August 1973

Highlights

• Appearance by Luke Cage, Hero for Hire
• Norman Osborn's body is found, but without his Green Goblin costume - Don't forget about the mysterious man in the shadows from the prior issue
• J. Jonah Jameson hires Luke Cage to bring Spider-Man to justice
• Funeral of Gwen Stacy
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man issue 121
• Doc Ocks men continue to watch over Aunt May while he is in prison
• First meeting, and fight, between Luke Cage and Spider-Man
• Luke Cage makes a comment, referencing Bruce Wayne

Low Points

• Peter wants to quit being Spider-Man

Oddities

• Peter doesn't understand how getting out and being Spider-Man isn't helping him move on from Gwen's death...um...it's been like two days

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