Comics Corner: Spider-Woman 20

   

Title: Spider-Woman
Issue Number: 20
Release Date: November 1979

Highlights

• Reference is made to Spider-Woman 16
• Origin retelling of Spider-Woman
• Spider-Woman and Spider-Man meet for the first time

Low Points

• Spider-Woman's origin is pretty dumb
• Overall, it's not a very interesting story
• Very pointless, and absolutely not essential to Spider-Man's chronological history

Oddities

• Jessica Drew, AKA Spider-Woman, is fired from her job because the company she worked at never filled her paperwork out
• Spider-Woman immediately results to stealing from her prior company, stating they owe her back pay as justification for her actions

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Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 20

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 20
Release Date: July 1978

Highlights

• Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 3, and 9
• Lightmaster incorrectly concludes that Hector Ayala is Spider-Man
• Holly breaks up with Hector because she claims he lied to her by not revealing his identity as White Tiger directly to her - He revealed his identity to the world on television

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Why is there a set of bars on the roof of the police station right above the prisoner interrogation room?
• Why is the rain in the scene not getting inside the room?
• If it's a skylight covered by bars, why is there a skylight in the roof of the police station right above the interrogation room?
• Why does the police station interrogation room have a knock out gas feature?
• Why didn't the gas effect the police who were exposed to it by the broken glass which separated the two rooms where the police were asking questions from?

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 20

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 20
Release Date: April 1974

Highlights

• Black Panther helps Spider-Man create a new, and stronger web fluid

Low Points

• Throw away story that was unnecessarily spread across two issues.

Oddities

• Mary Jane crosses a police barricade looking for Peter Parker in the middle of a dinosaur battle
• After being told his condition is irreversible, Stegron just runs away from the battle - He never said anything throughout the entire story about caring or wanting to turn human again, so why the sudden withdrawal from the fight?

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 20

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 20

Release Date: January 1965

Highlights

• First appearance of the MacDonald Gargan / the Scorpion
• Ned Leeds leaves for Europe
• J. Jonah Jameson is responsible for creating the Scorpion - Officially making J.J.J. a villain in my book 
• Spidey gets a whoopin' - Twice!
• Great story, great villain and great action - One of the best stories since Spidey was created

Low Points

• The mystery cliffhanger from issue 19 is a letdown - Simply a guy being paid by J. Jonah Jameson to follow Peter Parker in order to find out how he gets photos of Spider-Man

Oddities

• Spider-Man makes a bat out of webbing and uses it to startle a man he's following
• Gargan is willing to submit himself to a scientific experiment for only $10,000.00 - Sure, that equates to $83,624.25 on the inflation calculator, but still, that's not much for something so risky
• Scorpion comes out of nowhere, landing on Spider-Man's back in mid air as he swings

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