Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 124
Release Date: March 1987
Highlights
- Though it is a much later issue in the run, this story takes place between issues 72 and 73 of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
- First appearance of Ms. Tolliver, Isabel Bunsen, Sam, and NYPD officer Paul
- Doc Ock infiltrates a truck, and after ambushing it, takes its cargo of radioactive isotopes
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 15
- Peter sees the aftermath of the events on the news, and springs into action as Spider-Man
- While swinging through the city, Spider-Man's spidey sense kicks in, and he sees a man at the door to a jewelry shop
- He attempts to stop the robbery in progress, except it's the owner of the place, and he's none to happy being accosted
- Over the next few nights, Octopus continues to strike, stealing the materials he needs
- Seeing the headlines essentially stating Spider-Man is in on the crimes, Peter heads to the Bugle to give J. Jonah Jameson an earful, but is stopped by the publisher, telling him that if he doesn't have photos to not even start
- Robbie Robertson gives Peter a tip on a prototype nuclear reactor electrical component, and that Ock will probably strike there next
- Spider-Man is already on-site, and waiting, when Doc Ock infiltrates the ship with the component
- Spider-Man and Doc Ock's battle is cut short by the guards who storm the ship with gas grenades, forcing them both to retreat
- Spider-Man returns to the jewelry shop from earlier, and his spidey sense kicks in again, leading him to a manhole
- Spider-Man follows his spidey sense to Ock's underground secret lair, but it's the villain who gets the drop on him
- In the heat of the battle, Doc Ock accidentally damages his own equipment, but doesn't realize it
- The heat gauges begin to show rising temperatures in the red
- Even though Ock is knocked out, his mechanical arms stay in the fight, even as Spider-Man desperately tries to deal with the overheating equipment
- Spider-Man is able to get Ock awake, and despite his hatred for Spider-Man, he doesn't want to go up in the explosion the countdown blaring is warning about
- Enraged by having to destroy his own equipment, Ock inadvertently damages the ceiling above himself, causing the whole place to start collapsing
- Spider-Man is able to escape as the whole place comes down, but Ock doesn't
- Spider-Man thinks him dead - He's not
- It's unnecessary to write a story that takes place over fifty issues back - There's no stakes knowing that the events occurred in the past
- It's just a convenient filler story
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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