Comics Corner: The Spectacular Spider-Man 145

    

Title: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 145
Release Date: December 1988

Highlights

• First appearance of Kristy Watson, Cynthia Bernhammer, and NYPD officer, Lieutenant Frank Farrow
• Death of Teddy Tones
• Picking up where the last issue left off, Peter is startled awake in his hotel room by a revelation - Baxter wasn't Boomerang's target, Crippen was, and Baxter was behind it all
• Spider-Man heads out to investigate Baxter's yacht, but is ambushed by Boomerang, who gases him unconscious
• Back in New York, Ben Urich received a tip from Lieutenant Frank Farrow, who allows him to come down to a crime scene to get exclusive photos
• The body of Teddy Tones has been bled dry, and the blood used to write a message to Kingpin on a window
• Outside the apartment building to their home, a late Mary Jane literally runs into her cousin, Kristy Watson who says she's there to visit until Easter
• Robbie Roberston is out on bail, but informs his legal counsel, Cynthia Bernhammer, that he wants to plead guilty, much to the protest of his son and J. Jonah Jameson
• As Spider-Man comes to, he finds himself chained up in a speedboat
• Boomerang informs him it's loaded with plastic explosives, which will go off as he drifts towards Baxter during the race, providing one last alibi for the man
• After Boomerang takes his leave, Spider-Man is able to break free, but the villain notice this, and circles back
• Baxter uses every dirty trick in the book to attempt to win the yacht race
• Smoke clouds from the side of his boat, and hidden rocket engines on the back
• Spider-Man hangs on the bottom of the boat, and then surprise attacks Boomerang
• During the confusion, the boat heads straight towards Baxter's yacht, and seeing the inevitable collision, they all bail out

Low Points

• It's like Wacky Races, but with Spider-Man
• All that's missing is Baxter saying, "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids"

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 145

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 145
Release Date: September 1984

Highlights

• First appearance of Barbara Scarlotti, Lawrence Eiben, Harry, Rusty, Billy, and Phil
• First appearance of the Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland Justice Center, Little Italy, and Scarlotti Bakery
• Spider-Man is headed for Cleveland for the 26th Annual Convention of Electronics Engineers and Innovators
• Mark Scarlotti is also at the convention looking for a job, but his past is deterring this from happening
• When Mark see's Iron Man, he thinks back to when the hero defeated him as his alter ego, Whiplash, and again when he changed to Blacklash
• Mark thinks this would be a good opportunity to catch Iron Man off guard, defeat him, and in turn get back in with the Maggia - He decides against the thought, and instead leaves
• Mark returns home to his parent's bakery, and asks his mother to give him a job - She tells him no, and that he has to leave
• Mark gets a beer poured on his head at a local bar, and then he's thrown out
• Mark takes a job with the Maggia to take care of Lawrence Eiben for thwarting their hacking ring
• First, he returns to the bar as Blacklash to extract revenge for the bullying
• Blacklash gets defeated again by the duo of Iron Man and Spider-Man
• Mark's lawyer attempts to get him to plea insanity - Mark refuses, and when he asks about his mom, is informed she isn't coming, and wants nothing to do with him
• As Mark's lawyer leaves, he shows that he clearly isn't okay in the head, as the story wraps up with him talking to himself about his mom coming to see him as a tears fall from his eyes

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 145

  

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 145
Release Date: June 1975

Highlights

• New Comics Corner layout and logo (shameless plug)
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 122
• Mac Gargan, AKA Scorpion, is let out of prison, having served his time
• Reference is made to Captain America 152, the issue where Scorpion was apparently captured and sent to jail by the titled hero of that book

Low Points

• See oddities below

Oddities

• Halfway through the issue, reference is abruptly made to Marvel Team-Up issue 33, which the events from that tale have apparently taken place in the middle of this current story

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

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