Comics Corner: The Avengers

   

Title: The Avengers
Issue Number: 236
Release Date: October 1983

Highlights

• Spider-Man breaks into Avenger's headquarters, and tells them he's there to join up
• The Avengers decline his offer, telling him he's missed their recruitment period, and have a six "man" team limit
• The Avengers do offer him an opportunity to join the trainee program as a potential backup - Spider-Man declines, almost arogantly
• Reference is made to The Avengers 5, 221, The Amazing Spider-Man 243, Marvel Two-In-One 42, Captain America Annual 7, Marvel Team-Up Annual 5, Iron Man 109, and Nova 19
• The alarm goes off at the Avenger's headquarters, and despite offering to help, Spider-Man is sent on his way
• Spider-Man hitches a ride, unknowingly by the team, to the bottom of their Quinjet as it takes off
• The Avengers aren't happy when they find out Spider-Man tagged along to Project Pegasus, and Captain America informs him he's breached a high security facility by doing so
• Spider-Man doesn't follow Captain America's orders, causing a bigger issue by using his webbing on the lava men, instead of making barriers as instructed - Cap chastises him for not following orders, and reminds him as a team everyone needs to do as they're told
• As the scientists of Project Pegasus continue to analyze the Croit Stabilizer, they inadvertently free Blackout from it
• Blackout releases Moonstone from her prison at Project Pegasus, and in turn the two free Rhino and Electro
• The lava men call Captain Marvel the lady of light, and bow down to her
• The lava men tell Captain Marvel that when the Earth people drilled into their home that they saw it as an attack, and were retaliating
• The four villains decide to take over the nuclear reactor of the facility to extract their revenge for being imprisoned there

Low Points

• Generic lava men are the villains of the story
• Spider-Man really doesn't feel necessary to the story, and just comes off as arrogant

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 236

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 236
Release Date: January 1983

Highlights

• Death of Tarantula
• First appearance of Ernie, Geraldo Jiminez, and Board of Directors, John T. Gamelin, and August D'Angelo
• Spider-Man convinces Will-O'-The-Wisp to not kill James Melvin, the head of Brand Corporation, but instead to turn him in
• Tarantula realizes what he's become and chooses suicide by jumping off a building while begging the cops to shoot him, which they do
• In response to Melvin's confession, Roxxon issues a statement that they will shut down all Brand locations and run a full investigation, but they're in on it too

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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