Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 45
Release Date: December 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Morris "The Snake" Diamond, Harry, Danny, and Lenny
- First appearance of McCarran International Airport
- Peter Parker is still in Las Vegas, but he's happy because he thinks he's going home
- He's wrong
- Peter makes it to the airport, and finds out he's flying on Rattlesnake Airlines, along with Morris "The Snake" Diamond
- Reference is made to Web Of Spider-Man 24
- The Vulture is out for vengeance against Mr. Diamond for stealing the plans to his invention, a pair of ultra sonic controlled trick dice
- Vulture flies towards the plane headed for New York, and blows it from the sky with a bomb
- As everyone parachutes from the plane (see oddities), Vulture issues a warning to them all that he will strike when they least expect it
- On the ground, the Stewardess, Sara, suggests they all head back to the plane wreckage, as that will be their best bet for a rescue
- Diamond has his own plans, and his many Danny pulls a gun, slapping Sara across the face with it to make her shut up
- As Peter prepares to intervene, the Vulture appears, and grabs Diamond, air lifting him from the group, and telling him he has a serum he wants to test on him
- Spider-Man carries Sara away to safety, and then goes after Vulture
- Diamond explains to Vulture that the journals he stole, which the villain wants back, were on the plane, and destroyed in the explosion and subsequent crash
- Spider-Man uses the last of his web fluid to stop a mountain lion preparing to pounce on Sara
- As Spider-Man and Vulture fight, Diamond's men rescue their boss
- As Spider-Man hangs on to Vulture, the villain jabs him with a syringe full of the previous noted serum
- Vulture tells him it's a mummification serum, just as Spider-Man gets one final blow, and blacks out
- When he awakens, Sara is standing over him, and informs him she's with the CID, Central Intelligence Division
- She also informs him that they "convinced" Vulture to give them an antidote for Spidey
- Spider-Man asks for a lift home
- The whole story is just dumb, very amateurishly written, and the ending too convenient
- Someone at Marvel got paid to write this throw away story?
Oddities
- The plane is equipped with enough parachutes for every passenger on board
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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