Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 128

    

Title: Peter Parker, The Spider-Man
Issue Number: 128
Release Date: July 1987

Highlights

• Black Cat once again gets a new costume, and its somehow worse then her previous new one
• Black Cat learns that Foreigner was playing her for a fool, using her to get to Spider-Man
• Silver Sable let's J. Jonah Jameson hire her for one million dollars to take care of Spider-Man
• Barry and Ashley, the original creators of the Blaze persona and costume are studying in the library when Spider-Man enters the scene and demands who they sold the costume to
• They deny the allegation, and state they set fire to the suit, and took his last warning to heart
• As Spider-Man leaves, they return to their work - plans to steal the Mona Lisa
• Detective Tork is met at the station by Stan Carter, the officer who killed Captain Jean DeWolff
• Stan tells him Spider-Man wasn't involved in Blaze's death
• Daredevil catches up with Spider-Man and tries to convince him he needs legal help for the allegations that he killed Blaze
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 287, 289, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 118
• Flash Thompson calls Betty Leeds from the hospital, and when she answers, she's clearly loosing her mind, talking about Ned being home soon, and that Flash and Sha Shan should come over some night
• Silver Sable's men find Spider-Man, and attack
• At Peter's apartment, Black Cat is on the phone with Lt. Keating, plotting on Spider-Man
• Spider-Man comes face to face with the now fired S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who killed the kid, Alex Woolcot
• Spider-Man strips him down, and webs him head to toe
• It sounds odd, but he took all his clothes off because he knew the guy would be too impatient to wait for the webbing to dissolve, and how much it would hurt ripping it off
• Which it does hurt, because he was impatient
• Peter returns home, and overhears a call between Black Cat and Foreigner, and how she's playing Spider-Man for a fool

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Several panels where the character's teeth are the color of their flesh
• Why is Silver Sable accepting money to capture Spider-Man?

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 128

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 128
Release Date: April 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of the location, D'Agostino's grocery store
• Awesome photograph cover featuring Marvel staff members John "Jack" Morelli as Spider-Man, and Joe Jusko as Captain America
• Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 76, Captain America 270, and 278
• Spider-Man and Captain America are each in a separate stall in the same bathroom changing into their costumes while Vermin is outside running rampant
• Gail Runciter makes a move on Captain America, and he rejects her

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• I still don't understand where Steve Rogers hides that shield when he's in his civvies
• Peter gives his apartment keys to his two friends, Mia and Roger, at the carnival, telling them to go there when Vermin attacks, but then is surprised when they're at his home when he gets there

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 128

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 128
Release Date: January 1974

Highlights

• Professor Shallot is revealed to be the Vulture, transformed through bio-mutation techniques

Low Points

• Wraps up too neatly, and none of the clues come together in the panels - Spider-Man just has the right conclusion
• End of the story turns preachy, with too much text

Oddities

• None

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