Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 131

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 131
Release Date: October 1987

Highlights

• First appearance of Lieutenant Dave, and Officer Marsha Collins
• A couple weeks have passed, as made reference by a pair of cops who talk about Spider-Man being out of control for that period of time
• Unbeknownst to them they're referencing Kraven, who has shot, buried, and assumed the identity of Spider-Man
• Vermin grabs a woman off the street, leaving her unconscious body for what he thinks is Spider-Man to find
• He runs into a pair of police, and while one is being eaten alive by his rats, the other reminds him of his mother
• She manages to shoot him in the gut, but he gets the upper hand, licks her face, and runs away
• Mary Jane goes to Joe Robertson's house, intent on asking him questions about her missing husband, but after being welcomed in, changes her mind, and leaves
• Kravin intends on one more test to prove he's a better Spider-Man by finding Vermin, and killing him
• Kraven heads to the sewers and battles Vermin, winning
• As he carries him out of the sewers, back at Kraven's mansion, Spider-Man's hand breaks through the ground where he was buried

Low Points

• Nothing's really happening, and the impact of the first chapter is starting to fade fast
• The last issue of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man crediting Jim Shooter as Editor-In Chief - Jim was fired in April 1987 from Marvel Comics

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 131

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 131
Release Date: July 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of White Rabbit, AKA Lorina Dodson, and her cronies, the White Rabbit Gang: Joe Face, Chuck, Mel, and Miguel
• The second appearance of the fabulous Frog-Man
• Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 121, 125, 128, and Daredevil 25
• Spider-Man tells Eugene, AKA Frog-Man that the latter is not a super hero 
• Peter learns his friend Roger Hotchberg is having financial difficulties with his mom in the hospital, and secretly vows to capture White Rabbit for the reward money to help him
• Because of their crushing financial difficulties, Joe Patilio, Eugene's dad, takes a job with White Rabbit
• The origin of White Rabbit is revealed - A spoiled rich girl who's bored
• Eugene goes after the reward for capturing the White Rabbit
• Roger knocks out White Rabbit, earning himself a part of the reward - Only a part because...
• ...Turns out that Eugene's dad was working under cover by joining up with White Rabbit to bring her in

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Multiple panels with Spider-Man's lenses colored red
• Editor's Day Still Off: Frog-Man says, "You've got another think coming."

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 131

  

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 131
Release Date: April 1974

Highlights

• Doc Ock is marrying Aunt May, or rather, trying to by way of having a marriage ceremony - It gets interrupted
  
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 113, 114, and 120
• Mary Jane is starting to display she has feeling for Peter Parker
  

Low Points

• Spider-Man talks about waiting for the right moment to smash Doc Ock while limiting the shock to Aunt May, except in this issue, he hasn't done anything wrong - He's just trying to get married
• There's an atomic blast on the island where Doc Ock and Hammerhead are fighting, and they're right at the center of it, but *spoiler alert for future issues* they don't die
  
• Very incoherent story with convenient plot holes to move the story along to its conclusion
• All that build up from the prior two issues for no payoff
  

Oddities

• Spider-Man fears that him battling with Doc Ock might be too much for Aunt May's fragile heart...But moments ago Hammerhead and his guys just bashed in the door at her wedding, shot darts at all of them, and they've been running ever since - Bottom line, she's fine
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 221, but we are only in issue 131
• Between the wind and the engine, Spider-Man can listen through the bottom hull of a mid-flight helicopter just by putting his ear to it
• Aunt May inherited a privately owned atomic processing plant? From who? When? Huh?
• Hamemrhead's plan for stopping Doc Ock is to crash his own helicopter into his
• Spider-Man didn't want to fight Doc Ock earlier, because he was afraid it would be too much for Aunt May's fragile heart...Yet he's gung ho on fighting pages later
• Spider-Man's plan for getting off the island is to hopefully grab one of the helicopters...You know, the ones that smashed into each other...Further, how does he know how to fly a helicopter?
• Oh...Never mind...He found a perfectly good plane which has, "been modified so even an idiot can pilot it"
  

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