Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 43

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 43
Release Date: June 1980

Highlights

• First appearance of Roderick Kingsley (who becomes one of many of the Hobgoblin), Belladonna, and her henchmen, Jack, Manny, and Moe
• Peter invites Debra Whitman out on a date
• Spider-Man gets a sample of Belladonna's toxin, and plans on using it to strengthen his web fluid formula
• Short and simple story

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 43

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 43
Release Date: March 1976

Highlights

• First, and only appearance of Elizabeth Hubbard
• Abridged version of Doctor Doom's origin, as original told in Fantastic Four Annual 2
• Lots of action, despite the story not being all that interesting

Low Points

• Why is it that the bad story lines are the ones that are dragged out the longest?
• Scarlet Witch kills a cat
• NO! Another cliffhanger ending - How long is this story?

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 43

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 43

Release Date: December 1966

Highlights

• Rhino escapes and goes on a rampage
• Ned Leeds and Betty Brant get engaged
• Mary Jane returns, and Peter is smitten 
• Cameo appearance from Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page
• Origin of Rhino
• Doctor Curtis Connors makes an appearance
• Rhino looses his protective hide / costume to Spider-Man and Doctor Connors experimental webbing
• Flash Thompson gets called up for the draft

Low Points

• Mary Jane talks like a beatnik, and it's kind of annoying

Oddities

• Rhino crashes through a wall, and even though he doesn't hit Spider-Man, he thinks he's won and walks off

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

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