Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 130

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 130
Release Date: September 1987

Highlights

• First appearance of Carlos D'Agostino, and Tony
• First appearance of the locations Washington West, and Curt Connors' home
• It's noted that this issue takes place before the events of The Amazing Spider-Man 289
• Spider-Man bursts on the scene, looking for a cackling Hobgoblin
• He finds him in a wheelchair, bandaged up
• Hobgoblin tells him that if he doesn't cooperate that Harry Osborne is dead
• We see the villain has sent a pumpkin to him with a note that explains he's just been poisoned, and if he wants to live to contact Spider-Man, and have him meet the Goblin at a specified location
• Hobgoblin explains that he was hired to steal a set of ledgers from Kingpin, but it all went South fast, and after being attacked by his men, he fell from the building, slowing his decent only by hitting balconies, breaking limbs and bones on the way down to the pavement
• Harry Osborne has been poisoned as leverage to force Spider-Man to get the ledgers for him
• Throwing Spider-Man a homing device not only points him towards the ledgers, but also puts the same poison on him that will kill Harry Osborne
• Hobgoblin offers the antidote for the ledgers
• Rather than go find the ledgers, Spider-Man instead goes to Dr. Curt Connors for help
• While they do determine the root of the toxin, they both know that time will not allow to create an antidote from scratch
• As Spider-Man leaves to go complete the mission, Connors says he'll search for an existing antidote
• Carlos D'Agostino is somehow now in possession of the ledgers, and Spider-Man traces him to his yacht
• After a battle which see's D'Agostino's guests fleeing in all directions, Spider-Man gets the ledgers
• As Spider-Man returns to Connors' home to check in, he notices some thugs inside, but these aren't D'Agostino's men
• After making short order of them, Kingpin appears, telling him he has not only something that belongs to him, but handle the Hobgoblin for him, and says he's prepared to negotiate for both
• Spider-Man fills him in on the events thus far
• Kingpin tells Spider-Man that he not only knows what toxin Hobgoblin has used, but can get the antidote in two hours if Spider-Man will return the books, and take care of Hobgoblin for him
• Spider-Man takes the deal, and Kingpin does indeed deliver, providing the cure for him and Harry
• Spider-Man heads back to Hobgoblin, but the villain is able to escape easily
• Kingpin is disappointed in his failure, and calls Spider-Man an amateur

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 130

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 130
Release Date: June 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of the location, Concord, New England
• Reference is made to Vision And Scarlet Witch 3 (mini-series), Defenders 1, and Avengers 128
• Spider-Man thinks Andrew Pauncholito knows he's Peter Parker, and that he's going to tell the world through his last article in the Daily Bugle before retiring
• Necrodamus takes over Vision's body
• Necrodamus burns his own body to ashes with his new (Vision) body
• Turns out that Pauncholito did know Peter was Spider-Man, but opted to retire instead of publishing the story

Low Points

• Marvel writers really don't know how to write dialog for women

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 130

  

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 130
Release Date: March 1974

Highlights

• First full appearance of the Spider Mobile
• It's Christmas Eve
  
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 3, 113, 114, 115, and 120
• Peter Parker owns an album called, Aretha Sings the Blues, which features a very familiar Aretha Franklin on the jacket - It's an interesting foreshadow, because an album from her of that same name would be released six years later (1980)
• The Spider Mobile has a camouflage feature where if you flip the switch, it transforms into a normal looking car
• J. Jonah Jameson gives Peter a cigar as a Christmas bonus
• Doc Ock and Aunt May are getting married on the last panel of the page - Major cliffhanger that excites me to dive right into the next issue
  

Low Points

• Mary Jane tells Peter that he an her need to find some mistletoe, and he tells her he isn't in the mood?
• A lot of events continue from the prior issue, or occur in this one, but they all come off as building up to something else - There is no beginning nor end to this story
  

Oddities

• Marvel can't keep the name straight from page to page. Is it the Spider-Mobile, Spidermobile, or Spider Mobile? They state all three
• Um...one of the thugs makes a very odd comment which I don't know how to take, "The boss sure knows how to plan a caper - Right down to beating off punks who probably won't even show!" - What?!? Beating off punks?
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 213, an obvious typo as we're only up to 130
• Spider-Man needs to travel thirty-two miles to Westchester, and says he needs to do it "fast". He then proceeds to swing and ride on top of random cars - Um...Spider Mobile?
  

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