Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man 17

    

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 17
Release Date: August 1986

Highlights

• The end of the red suit story arc continues
• The story picks up immediately where the last concluded, and the fight is on between Spider-Man and Magma
• Despite his mental retardation, Seth Hanks has an incredible mental capability to calculate advanced mathematical equations
• As Joy is taken deeper into Magma's underground base, she sees a sign for Roxxon Corporation, and takes a big interest in it
• Reference is made to Marvel Team-UP 110
• Spider-Man eventually withdraws from the fight, and returns as Peter Parker to intentionally be captured by Magma's men
• Peter helps Joy, Charla and her son Seth escape, but then pretends to slip and fall, drawing the guards to him while they get out
• Peter uses the opportunity to get back into action as Spider-Man, and go after Magma
• Joy gives the impression she knows Peter is Spider-Man, but doesn't come out and say it
• Spider-Man kicks Magma just as he fires his magma blaster, and the shot hits a series of energy projectors, sending a destructive chain reaction through the underground city
• Safely above ground, and helped by the military, Joy ponders if Peter is okay
• In a cliffhanger ending, the torn and burnt up Spider-Man costume lies in a heap, with no signs of Peter Parker

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: Marvel Graphic Novel 17

   

Title: Marvel Graphic Novel
Issue Number: 17
Release Date: October 1985

Highlights

• First appearance of Apocalypse, though he remains unnamed
• First appearance and death of Filene Abdol, and Fayah Sahid, AKA Salome Abdol
• First appearance of Living Planet, AKA Ahmet Abdol, Hassan, Ms. Kweston, the Living Pharaoh cult, and named member, Arani
• A young Ahmet believes he will one day be a king, but this only serves for Hassan to bully him
• As he grows up, and attends college, he believes he's found documented proof that his family are decedents of the Pharaohs
• Ahmet marries his childhood sweetheart, Filene
• Ahmet's research concludes with him telling the scientific and religious communities of Cairo that the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt were mutants, a statement which is met with anger from his audience
• The crowd gives chase, and Ahmet, his wife, and infant child, Salome, flea in their car, only to end in an accident that leaves both him and his daughter thrown from the vehicle, and his wife trapped within
• The crowd catches up, but refuse to help him get his wife from the car, and it explodes, resulting in her death
• In a fit of rage, Ahmet fires a beam from his hand at the crowd, killing some, and sending the rest running
• Ahmet is led to a hidden cult who believe he is their long awaited God
• Ahmet sends his daughter away to school, and with her gone, he focuses on becoming more powerful, only to be thwarted repeatedly by the X-Men
• Ahmet awakens from all of the above, a dream he was having while locked in prison, his hands sealed in electronic shackles to prevent him from using his powers
• Hassan works at the prison as a guard, and continues taunting Ahmet, only to find out the hard way that the Living Pharaoh has been weakening his arm shackles over time, and blasts the bully
• Living Pharaoh's men storm the prison, aiding their master in his escape, and taking Hassan with them
• Two of the Pharaoh's men don't make it to the escape vehicles, and he blasts them from the sky, killing them so that they can't be captured and questioned
• In New York, Fayah makes her way to the Baxter Building, only to be surrounded by the Pharaoh's men - Human Torch intervenes, sending all the villains running for their lives
• Fayah informs the Fantastic Four that Living Pharaoh had created a machine that would force all humanity to bow down to him - Stealing a piece of that machine, she sought out the FF4 to get help stopping him
• Despite Johnny Storm saving her earlier, Fayah insists She-Hulk stay with her instead of Torch while Reed examines the machine part - But the look on her face spells that it's all a ruse, and Fayah has ulterior motives
• Fayah was indeed playing the FF4, and springs a trap which captures Human Torch, Mister Fantastic, and Invisible Girl, sending them to Egypt, and into the presence of Living Pharaoh
• Living Pharaoh orders his men to attack, but this too is all a ruse
• As the FF4 battle, the Pharaoh's scientists are analyzing their cosmic signatures, drawing their power into an ankh projector
• Fayah gets trapped in the Baxter Building, and Pharaoh doesn't want to activate her shock collar to kill her
• It's revealed that Fayah is really Salome, Pharaoh's daughter
• Hassan taunts Pharaoh, calling him a wimp as he battles with himself over not wanting to kill his daughter, but knowing he should
• Pharaoh activates her collar, killing his daughter
• Angry, and pushed over the edge, Pharaoh steps into his machine, transforming into the Living Monolith, powered by the cosmic energies being syphoned off of Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, and Human Torch
• Monolith decides to destroy New York as his revenge for the loss of his daughter
• She-Hulk reaches out to Captain America for help, and he decides they need someone with a scientific brain who can analyze the energy pyramid which took her three team members
• Cap thinks of Spider-Man, but admits he doesn't know how to find him
• Captain America heads to the Daily Bugle to find Peter Parker, knowing he takes a lot of photos of the hero
• Peter see's Cap in the Bugle, and decides to wait for him outside as Spider-Man
• Spider-Man is taken to the Baxter Building, and given free reign of Reed Richard's lab to analyze the Egyptian components
• Monolith attacks, and though She-Hulk insists they find the remaining FF4 first, Cap reminds her of their duty to protect the city
• The heroes are no match for Monolith, who ignores their attacks before swatting She-Hulk through a series of buildings
• Spider-Man uses the pyramid technology to transport himself to the Monolith's base
• Spider-Man decides to destroy the machines to free the FF4, but is warned that the equipment's destruction would trigger nuclear reactors to blow, killing everyone
• Monolith hesitates in his rampage when he sees children fleeing a school, running from him in terror
• Cap uses the opportunity to try to reason with Monolith, telling him that he is acting out in the same way he feels people did against him
• Just as Monolith is about to see Cap's point, the army hits him with a rocket, sending him into a rage again, and accusing Cap of trying to trick him
• The military follows up with a bombardment of bombs from fighter jets, which do nothing but anger the Monolith further, but expose a massive wire which powers all of Manhattan
• Using timing, Cap and She-Hulk deenergize and reenergize the line when it makes contact with Monolith, knocking him down
• Spider-Man returns with the FF4
• Monolith's body continues to grow, even though he lays unconcious
• Captain America calls in Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Wonder Man, and Starfox to help
• Monolith's men arrive, and a war breaks out, which the citizens of New York rush in to join
• As Monolith awakens, he witnesses the battle before him, and questions why the citizens of New York would fight, and risk their lives, particularly one man who pushes a random child out of harms way, losing his own life in the process
• Monolith and Thor work together to literally throw Monolith into space, where he'll do no more harm
• As Monolith drifts through space aimlessly, he's pulled into the orbit of a star, where he suddenly begins to sprout vegetation, transforming into Ahmet Abdol, the Living Planet, finding peace that good has finally come from him
• It's different to say the least

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 Annual 17

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual
Issue Number: 17
Release Date: December 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of C.J. Vogel, Mr. Gilbert, Louie Minelli, Barry Hapgood, Stanley Stackmeyer, Ernie, and Charlie
• First appearance and death of Milton Farr
• First appearance of Milton Farr Publishing
• Kingpin's thugs break into Farr Publishing, and rough up the man, and kidnap him
• Kingpin tells Mr. Gilbert that because of his two failures, he will be framed for a crime, and arrested - However, When Gilbert pushes back, Kingpin breaks both of his legs
• Tonight is the night of the Mid-Town High School pre-union party, with Peter reluctantly attends
• Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 85
• Farr has dirt on Kingpin, and the crime lord wants the files
• C.J. was once a ghost writer for Farr, and his new career as a children's television show hangs in the balance of blackmail from an old classmate, Louie Minelli
• Peter says he owes C.J. a debt for his comedy during high school, which got Peter out of a lot of beatings from bullies
• Spider-Man vows to pay Peter's debt to C.J. by helping him in the mess he's mixed up in with Farr
• In a desperate attempt to bury his past, C.J. burns the contents of the safe, which include the documents about Kingpin
• The Mid-Town High reunion commences
• C.J.'s jokes fall flat as he does nothing but insult his old classmates
• Peter realizes that C.J. thought him wanting to help was to get a story, and tells C.J. he's a loser now

Low Points

• Very long and boring

Oddities

• TBD

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

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Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 17

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 17
Release Date: April 1978

Highlights

• First appearance of Officer Davis
• Peter Parker heads to California for a trip booked by the Daily Bugle
• Warren Worthington III, AKA Angel, buys Peter Parker a brand new high tech camera
• Reference is made to Champions 17, Ghost Rider 26
• The Champions disband
• Rampage is revealed to be Iceman

Low Points

• Peter Parker is always over sleeping - Why is he so irresponsible?

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: Marvel Two-In-One 17

   

Title: Marvel Two-In-One
Issue Number: 17
Release Date: July 1976

Highlights

• Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 16, and 17, plus 41 through 46

Low Points

• Not very exciting - All build up

Oddities

• Editor's day off: "Peter! Can you to see to the river from your appartment?

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

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 17

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 17
Release Date: January 1974

Highlights

• Reference is made to Fantastic Four 128 and 141
• The Fantastic Four have broken up, and only Mr. Fantastic remains at the Baxter Building

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 17

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 17

Release Date: October 1964

Highlights

• Green Goblin returns for revenge, and this time he has his classic goblin glider
• Flash Thompson launches the Spider-Man Fan Club, Forest Hills Chapter
• Aunt May continues to try to get Peter to go on a blind date with Mary Jane Watson - Who we still don't get to physically see
• Green Goblin shoots his goblin sparks from his finger and throws pumpkin bombs for the first time

Low Points

• Green Goblin uses toys as weapons - Bats, frogs, etc.
• Spider-Man abandons the fight with Green Goblin to make an appearance as Peter Parker

Oddities

• Green Goblin uses a toy frog to break Spider-Man's webline

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

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