Showing posts with label Issue 149. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Issue 149. Show all posts

Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 149

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 149
Release Date: January 1985

Highlights

  • First appearance of Incandescent Man, the NYPD officer, Casey, and Staten Island ferry passengers, Steve and Sue
  • The crew of the Staten Island ferry finds a body in the water, but just as they pull it up, it bursts into powerful light, instantly frying the men
  • First appearance of Saks Fifth Avenue
  • Cannonball buys a hat from Saks for his mom, and proceeds to try to keep it safe during the battle
  • Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up Annual 6, Marvel Super Hero Secret Wars
  • Peter gives Robbie a handful of photos of Spider-Man, but he rejects them all telling the photographer to focus on something else, like other heroes
  • Spider-Man notices a blackout in Chelsea
  • Incandescent Man grows larger and larger as he absorbs all the electricity around the city
  • Cannonball accidentally breaks a fire hydrant, but the water that comes from it starts to shrink the Incandescent Man
  • Spider-Man snaps photos of the battle, showcasing Cannonball
  • Cannonball dumps Incandescent Man into the Hudson River, extinguishing him
  • Cannonball commits to trying harder to being a better student for Professor Xavier
  • Spider-Man tells Cannonball that he did great, and bets a photographer took photos of him, but the mutant says he hopes not because it could reveal his identity, and ruin Xavier's school
  • Despite needing the money, Spider-Man throws the roll of film into the river
Low Points
  • Reading Cannonball's Southern accent riddled dialog is painful
Oddities
  • None
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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 149

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 149
Release Date: October 1975

Highlights

  • Death of Anthony Serba, and Jackal
  • Jackal knows Peter Parker is Spider-Man
  • Jackal lays out why he created the clone of Gwen Stacy, being an "admirer" of her, and feeling heartbroken when she died
  • First appearance, and at the time, also the death of the Spider-Clone, retconned in the 90's as Ben Reilly
  • The Gwen Stacy Clone says goodbye to Peter Parker
  • Peter and Mary Jane hook up in the end
Low Points
  • In hindsight, it's the story arc many fans wish never happened, leading to the awful, and excessively drawn out Spider-Clone saga of the 90's
Oddities
  • Tarantula, who was prominent in the past two issues of the arc is nowhere to be found in the final act
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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