The Toy Box: Issue 266

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 266
Release Date: July 1985

Highlights

First appearance of the group, The Misfits, consisting of Frog-Man, Toad, and the Spectacular Spider-Kid
First appearance of the locations, Bert's Magazines, Kasman's Exotic Pets, and McGuffin's Marvels
Spider-Man saves Mortimore (Toad) from committing suicide
It's noted that the opening sequence in the story takes place before Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 100
Toad returns the favor, inserting himself in a fight between Spider-Man and some thugs
Frog-Man doesn't like that Toad has become Spider-Man's (unwanted) sidekick
Toad arranges forty-nine gunmen to show up at his meeting with Spider-Man, just to have the chance to fight them with Spider-Man - Frog-Man overhears the plan, and warns Spider-Man just as the thugs show up
Only nine of them show up, and they're hung over
Frog-Man and Toad start fighting each other
More thugs show up, but so does the Spectacular Spider-Kid
Toad and Frog-Man team up to fight Spider-Kid
The Misfits are formed

Low Points

Oddities

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

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Title: Captain America
Issue Number: 266
Release Date: February 1982

Highlights

Low Points

Oddities

Why does Spider-Man fall to the ground from the flying mountain when he could have easily constructed a web parachute like he's done many times before? Spider-Man even makes reference that he should have brought a parachute with him
S.U.L.T.A.N.'s whole plan of launching an atomic bomb at Washington D.C. was all just a ruse? He didn't actually have a bomb? Then why did he get excited when he thought it detonated? None of this makes sense

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