Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 46
Release Date: January 1989
Highlights
- First appearance of Peter's tour asistant, Jeff Wainright, town local, Dan, inn manager, Evie, talk show host, Jeanette Latour, Carolyn, and clinic secretary, Katie
- Peter Parker arrives in Shriver Cove, Massachusetts, but the welcome is anything but friendly when a local named Dan rushes him shouting that he hates outsiders
- Peter easily subdues him, and Dan is taken into custody
- As Jeff Wainright walks Peter to the inn he'll be staying at, he explains that as of late the entire town seems stressed out over a looming expansion
- That night, as Peter lays restless in bed, he hears an explosion which blows out the window of his room
- Looking outside, he sees a group of locals have blown up his car, and are chanting about hating outsiders
- A quick change to Spider-Man, a few fists, and webbing, and the crowd is subdued
- None of the men will answer questions, and though they weren't hit hard, all begin to pass out
- Jeff call's Peter's room, and informs him he'll get him another car, but that Peter will most likely have to stay one additional day for that to be arranged
- Overnight, the town seems to have done a 180, with everyone being super friendly
- Peter learns from Jeff that many people in town go to the Hatros Clinic for help with stress, Jeff included
- Peter follows him to the appointment, and asks to see the doctor for a publicity chat, he's promptly turned away
- Spider-Man infiltrates the building, and discovers the towns folk are being drugged through the water, and submitted to mind control sessions
- The most recent is prompting Jeff, and others, to hate outsiders
- Reference is made to Vision And The Scarlet Witch 11 (vol. 2), Avengers 58, Shanna The She-Devil 5, Spider-Woman 16, and though no specific issue, West Coast Avengers
- Spider-Man finds a phone, and ask Wanda to get Hank Pym to come to the town
- Pym arrives, and immediately sets to task on testing the town's water
- He's quick to discover it is polluted with a substance developed by tribal chieftains in Africa
- Before he can implement a treatment, he's grabbed by cultists, and knocked unconscious
- The cultists bring him to Nekra, the head of the Cult of Hate
- Hank tells Nekra that she can't move without a half-witted plot, which is exactly how I feel about this story
- Awful story, another throw away that has no long term impact on the storied history of Spider-Man
Oddities
- Hank Pym makes an antidote for the town, and it just so happens to be compatible with Spider-Man's web shooters
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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