Comics Corner: Avengers 221

   

Title: Avengers
Issue Number: 221
Release Date: July 1982

Highlights

• The Avengers are looking to bolster their team to six members
• Reference is made to Avengers 211, The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 3, and Dazzler 15
• Spider-Man is on the cover of Time magazine that Thor is reading
• Spider-Man reminds Thor he's already turned the Avengers down when last time they asked him to join
• The Mechano-Maurauder, AKA Fabian Stankowicz plays a laughable villian who stands no chance against the five female super heroes
• Dazzler, Sue Storm, Spider-Woman, and Black Widow turn the offer down to join the Avengers
• Hawkeye rejoins the team, and She-Hulk takes the sixth open slot

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• What happened to Iron Man's legs when he took off into the skies?

• Spider-Man says he'll think about Thor's offer, but then we never see nor hear from him again in the issue
• Hawkeye is at work reading Playboy?

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 221

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 221
Release Date: October 1981

Highlights

• First appearance of Dr. Kissick
• Reference is made to Daredevil 103
• Lonesome Pinky has a gig downtown, and invites Peter with a free ticket
• Despite having a date with Debra Whitman, in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 58, and burying the hatchet, she's out at the bar Pinky is performing at with her old boyfriend, Biff Rifkin
  

Low Points

• Stupid plot - Ramrod poisons an entire bar because the bartender went with Lonesome Pinky for the act instead of him
• Another throw away story in the flagship title

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Biff is referred to incorrectly as Bif

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