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Comics Corner: Iron Man 234

 

  

Title: Iron Man
Issue Number: 234
Release Date: September 1988

Highlights

  • First appearance of Mrs. Donna Twain
  • Tony Stark is attending the 31st Annual Conclave Of Electronics Engineers And Innovators with his latest Iron Man design
    • Peter uses his press credentials to get in, even though he's not on assignment
  • Chen Lu is on a stage giving a presentation for Stane International, when he sense a biorganic radiation
    • This in turn sets Peter's spidey senses off
  • Vic Martinelli, a security guard who stayed with Stane when he and Tony split from each other, palms a note to him while shaking hands
  • Spider-Man returns that evening to the exhibit hall, intent on investigating the source that set of his spidey sense earlier
    • The source is still there, Chen Lu, the Radioactive Man, and he confronts the hero
  • Radioactive Man is able to get his hands on Spider-Man, sapping his strength until he falls unconscious
  • After spending the night with Kathy Dare, Tony remembers the note, and reads the message asking him to come to a specific location at a specific time
    • Vic tells Tony about Radioactive Man, and agrees to help get Iron Man access to Stane's compound
  • In the compound, Radioactive Man has Spider-Man unmasked, and is running test on him
    • He intends to make a formula based on Spidey's blood, and sell it, but also informs the hero that if he doesn't survive losing the volume of blood that he intends to extract that he'll learn what he can by dissecting his body
  • Iron Man crashes through the wall, and draws Radioactive Man far enough away from Spider-Man for him to regain his strength, and break free
  • Spider-Man slips on a radiation suit, allowing him to fight the villain
  • Iron Man melts the led ceiling in the lab, covering Radiation Man in it, and then hitting him with ultra-Freon to cool it, creating a prison over his body
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 234

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 234
Release Date: November 1982

Highlights

  • First appearance of Brand Corporation employees, Jenkins, Dr. Fenton, and Dodds
  • First appearance of the Brand Corporation Research Center location
  • Amy Powell continues her mysteries plan, and tries to make a meet and greet move on Peter, who blows her off
  • Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 57
  • Brand promise to give Tarantula the same powers as Spider-Man, and convince him to partake in their special powers program
  • Tarantula is turned into a humanoid tarantula
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • Spider-Man pulls Will-O'-The-Wisp to safety by his hair

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



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