Comics Corner: Spider-Woman 26

   

Title: Spider-Woman
Issue Number: 26
Release Date: May 1980

Highlights

• First appearance of Rupert Dockery, and Grinder
• Spider-Woman saves Dockery from being kidnapped, but it's all just a ruse for the publisher to sell more papers
• Reference is made to Spider-Woman 20

Low Points

• Boring, and poorly written - Spider-Man is in this issue for all of three panels, reduced to nothing more than a wasted cameo
• Still not a fan of having to read non-related Spider-Man titles to get the full chronological story of the character, and as noted above, this is only a cameo, making it not even worth while

Oddities

• Dockery walks into a bar, meets with a criminal, and says he wants to write an expose on his villainous exploits...Odd how a criminal would make himself so easily accessible...to a news outlet...and be agreeable to the story - Terrible writing

Spider-Man's unnecessary cameo

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

1 star...

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Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 26

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 26
Release Date: January 1979

Highlights

• Reference is made to Daredevil 16, 17, Werewolf By Night 43, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 24
• Carrion is in Peter Parker's apartment - he knows his secret identity

Low Points

• Kind of slow paced
• Spider-Man spends the entire issue wandering around the city blind

Oddities

• The Masked Marauder says he's spent months in prison workshops heightening the power of his opt-blasts - Not a very good prison if he can spend his time perfecting weapons
• They once again call the box truck a van
• Editor's Day Off - There's are multiple panels where Spider-Man's lenses are red

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 26

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 26

Release Date: July 1965

Highlights

• First appearance of Crime-Master
• Green Goblin returns 
• Peter Parker attacks not only Flash, but all of his friends - AT THE SAME TIME!
• Peter buys a second hand Spider-Man costume because he doesn't have a suit - wardrobe malfunctions follow
• First appearance of Patch
• Though the comic series has had continuous continuity since the first issue, this is the first actual cliffhanger ending

Low Points

• Story tries to set it up so that Frederick Foswell is the Crime-Master, but it's painfully obvious he's not - Though by the end of the issue we still don't know who is

Oddities

• Silenced weapons go, "Thwok!" in Marvel Comics

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