Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 40
Release Date: July 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of the Cult of Love, Brother Guy, Brother Bruce, Brother Lenny, and Rita Hathaway
- Also the first appearance of Tracy Cushing
- Flash Thompson has landed a job working with kids on the police athletic club
- He stops by the Daily Bugle to share the news with Betty Leeds, but finds her talking with another man
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 289, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 109, 110, and Spider-Man Versus Wolverine
- Two weeks later, Spider-Man is swinging by Betty Leed's home, and thinking she's there, changes into his civilian clothes, and knocks on the door
- He's greeted by Rita Hathaway, who informs him the home is being sold as is, fully furnished
- As Spider-Man swings back towards the Bugle, he see's Flash below, and he's roughing up the man he saw two weeks earlier with Betty
- He explains to Spider-Man that the stranger is the last person to have seen Betty
- Spider-Man makes nice with the guy, but takes one of his pamphlets, and sticks a spider tracer to him
- Peter takes the pamphlet on the student's of love to Kate Cushing and tells her about Betty missing
- Kate tells him about her sister, Tracy, who joined the group at a very low point in her life, and when given the ultimatum by their parents to leave the group or leave home, she chose the latter
- Kate says she's never seen her sister again
- Peter shows her the business card of the real estate agent, Rita Hathaway
- Kate pulls in Ben Urich to find information, and then calls the police to report a missing person
- Flash sees the guy again, and tails him
- Flash enters a dilapidated building but the door closes behind him, and the trap is sprung
- Cult members surround him, a knives are pulled
- Flash is chased up all the stairs, but finds himself at a dead end
- Spider-Man crashes in, and the fight is on
- Spider-Man let's them flee, and when Flash protests, he tells him he is going to track the head guy, but doesn't tell him about his spider tracer, opting to keep that a secret
- Spider-Man latches to the top of the fleeing van, and lets the driver take them to their compound
- Hanging to the high ground, he spots Betty planting things in the garden
- He waits until nightfall, and enters the dorm where multiple people are sleeping, and wakes her up
- Though he says he's there to help her on behalf of Peter and Flash, she screams, alerting cult members, who come crashing in
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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