Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 40

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 40
Release Date: March 1980

Highlights

• Spider-Lizard roams the streets of New York
• The villainous team, The Frightful Four, are born; Electro, Wizard, Sandman, and Trapster
• Peter Parker is cured of his lizard persona

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Curt Connors creates a formula to turn Peter Parker back to normal, but wait, he could never figure out how to cure himself...

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 40

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 40
Release Date: December 1975

Highlights

• First appearance of Lotus
• First full-color appearance of the Sons of the Tiger
• Reference is made to Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 19, Fantastic Four 164, and The Amazing Spider-Man 27
• Reading Spider-Man comics with the TV on, and a Farmers Insurance commercial with J.K. Simmons comes on - Awesome!
• Spider-Man tells Sandman, "It's clobberin' time!" - Classic nod to Ben Grim, The Thing
• Death of the second Big Man, Janice Foswell, the daughter of the original Big Man, Frederic Foswell
• Nick Lewis, Jr., the second Crime Master, has to live with the fact that he killed his girlfriend, Janice, unaware she was disguised as the Big Man

Low Points

• Racist slurs in Spider-Man books is not cool

Oddities

• How many glass containers do Big Man and Crime Master keep on hand to trap the Human Torch in so that he can't flame on? We're up to two in the past two issues - the first was smashed by Spider-Man
• Human Torch leaves Spider-Man high and dry after they lose their fight against all the villains because he has a date
• No explanation for how the Sons of the Tiger got caught by the villains - They were literally with Spider-Man and Human Torch one page prior

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 40

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 40

Release Date: September 1966

Highlights

• Picks up from the last issue's cliffhanger, where Green Goblin has Peter Parker tied up
• Origin story of Green Goblin
• Betty Brant begins her trip back to New York

Low Points

• A little silly at times (see oddities)

Oddities

• Green Goblin has a device which can project mental images from Peter Parker's mind of previous battles
• Green Goblin gets electrocuted, causing him to lose his memory that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, yet he remembers everything else about his life

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