Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 135
Release Date: February 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Duke, and Eve
- Additional first appearance from real life television hosts, Regis Philbin, and Kathly Lee Johnson (before she became Gifford)
- The issue picks up immediately where the last left off with Spider-Man on the ground after being toppled by Max Dillon, AKA Electro
- As the crowd surrounds Spider-Man, threating to unmask him, and one in particular person who was the owner of the car he crushed when he fell, wanting to beat him, Stan Carter arrives, ushering people away with his cane
- When they don't comply, he draws a sawed off shotgun, which gets his message across the crowd who quickly flee in all directions, worried that he'll revert to his Sin-Eater persona, and kill them
- The gun turns out to be a toy
- The police arrive, and Carter tells Spider-Man to take off before he ruins his, Carter's reputation
- No witnesses will tell the police anything, for fear that Sin-Eater will handle them later
- Spider-Man returns home, and when Mary Jane tries to join him in the shower, she see's his burns from battling Electro
- Peter gets angry, demanding privacy, which she refuses to give him
- He finally confides that he feels guilty about crippling Carter, and even worse because he doesn't want to feel guilty about it
- Scott Rosenberg arrives at the police station as Carter is being questioned, demanding that his client be charged, or let go
- He's let go
- On the way out, Carter tells Rosenberg to stop bothering him, and that he doesn't want to live off the horrible things he did, but rather, get on with his life
- Peter continues to confide in Mary Jane that he pulled his punches with Electro after realizing he permanently injured Carter, and that he's now doubting himself
- Meanwhile Carter is going by all the precincts, looking to be reinstated as an officer
- They all decline
- He then tries his luck at security companies
- They too decline
- Rosenberg returns to Carter's apartment, and out of options, he finally accepts the representation to tell his story for money
- Eve sits with Regis and Kathy Lee, talking about her new fashions, which Mary Jane is one of the models for
- Their next guest is Carter, and Peter, who is in the audience gets outraged that he's looking to make money on his killings
- Spider-Man interrupts the show
- The conversation doesn't go his way when Carter shouts him down that he doesn't know anything, certainly not about Jean DeWolff, as the two were lovers
- Seeing Spider-Man on TV, Max Dillon, AKA Electro, rushes towards the station to once again confront the hero
- In a cliffhanger ending, rather than fight him, Dillon humiliates Spider-Man on public television when the hero won't engage in a fight
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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