Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 207

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 207
Release Date: August 1980

Highlights

• First appearance of Oswald Clum
• Peter is on his first date with Debra Whitman
• J. Jonah Jameson is back in charge at the Daily Bugle

Low Points

• Villain of the week story, and not a very good one at that
• Plot point is weak, too weak to be in Spider-Man's flagship title

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off - On one page Debra is referred to as Debby, and then on another, Debbie
• Oswald Clum walks towards the edge of a bridge, hypnotized, ready to jump, and thoroughly chained up with his hand behind his back - The latter a neat trick - How'd he do that to himself? Wait...where'd he get the chains from?

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Comics Corner: Fantastic Four 207

   

Title: Fantastic Four
Issue Number: 207
Release Date: May 1979

Highlights

• Peter Parker gets hired at the Daily Globe
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 21 and 27
• Death of Monocle

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• A major life event occurs for Peter Parker, and this issue isn't noted as relevant in the Spider-Man chronological order of reading
• Why did this event for Peter Parker not occur in a Spider-Man title? This easily could have been an issue of Marvel Team-Up
• Within minutes of starting his secret assignment, Peter tells Johnny Storm about it

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