Showing posts with label Issue 47. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Issue 47. Show all posts

Comics Corner: Web Of Spider-Man

   

Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 47
Release Date: February 1989

Highlights

  • The story picks up with Spider-Man catching up to Hobgoblin later that night, who's returned to Harry Osborn's plant
  • Reference is made to The Spectacular Spider-Man 146, and the Inferno crossover story arc
  • Though fighting, Hobgoblin informs him he had nothing to do with the destruction of the plant earlier that day
  • A creature comes up from the ground, grabbing Spider-Man, who makes short order of it
    • In the interim, Hobgoblin makes a hasty retreat
      • Spider-Man ponders why all these strange events as of late are not altering his spider senses
  • Glory Grant is once again out and about with Eduardo Lobo, the man who bumped into her at the Bugle
    • Ben Urich is in the same place with Joy Mercado, and when he see's Glory with Eduardo, he attempts to tell Joy who the man is, but this is interrupted by the escalator coming to life, and causing a ruckuss
      • Eduardo grabs Glory, and with ease leaps from the top floor of the mall to the lower level, telling her something bad is going down
  • Peter and Mary Jane, take cousin Kristy, and stay the weekend at Aunt May's house
    • While there, they pawn Kristy off on May, who is over the moon about the idea, and even says it's been a long time since she's had a child in the house, which doesn't sit well with Kristy who seems unhappy with being ditched
  • As Peter and Mary Jane leave later that morning, Kristy makes a comment to herself that one day Peter will be hers
  • Peter stops by Harry Osborn's house, and perched on the roof, unseen, is Hobgoblin
    • Liz is outside, and tells Peter she's worried about her husband, who's been in the attic all day
      • Peter makes his way to the attic, and is not warmly welcomed
        • As Harry yells at him to go away, his family screaming outside pushes him into action
          • Outside, Hobgoblin is attacking
  • Hobgoblin demand's Norman Osborn's formula from Harry
    • Spider-Man intervenes, but the battle ends with Hobgoblin spraying him in the face with tear gas
      • Harry bluffs, telling Hobgoblin the formula is in the safe in his office, causing the villain to depart with a warning that he'll be back if it's a lie
  • Ben Urich bursts into J. Jonah Jameson's office to inform him of fires breaking out everywhere, and demons running rampant around the city
    • Jameson tells him when he was younger that the bomb was the impending doomsday when he was younger, and he used to practice writing articles based on the end of the world, referring to it as "very funny"
  • After leaving his family with the neighbors, Harry returns to the attic, determined that his father would have done something to protect his family, and continuing his search finally finds what he's looking for, the costume and accessories of the Green Goblin
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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Comics Corner: Marvel Fanfare 47

   

Title: Marvel Fanfare
Issue Number: 47
Release Date: November 1989

Highlights

  • Despite being from 1989, this issue takes place in the timeline of Spider-Man from January 1984
  • First appearance of Quartermast Waldo, Captain Loffler, and Councilman Wade
  • Bruce Banner undertakes a space mission for S.H.I.E.L.D.
    • Note: At this point in time, Bruce can turn into the Hulk at will, controlling him, and retaining his own mind
  • While inspecting a satellite, a pink substance begins eating through his suit
  • The substance turns Hulk into a rampaging monster, and S.H.I.E.L.D jettisons him from their helicarrier, sending him dropping to Earth from the upper atmosphere
  • A group of wood be muggers attempt to rob Peter Parker, and are stopped by the explosion of the Hulk hitting the ground near them - Ironically, Spider-Man saves them from the falling debris
Low Points
  • The story is a chaotic mess of non-stop action that doesn't give the reader a moment to breath
  • It was so obvious from the beginning that the story was going the route of War Of The World, with a common Earth illness defeating the alien
Oddities
  • Peter tells J. Jonah Jameson at the beginning of the story that he's go a flu bug, and then at the end tells him that he must have caught Spider-Man's bug while taking photos
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 47

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 47
Release Date: October 1980

Highlights

  • First appearance of Nathan Lubensky, Melba Tolliver, Liam, Steve Daugherty, and the NYPD cops, Detective Donovan, and Sergeant Lou Snyder
  • Death of Charlie McGuire
  • The Cat Burglar, first seen in The Amazing Spider-Man 30, returns, this time as the new Prowler
  • Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 30, 93, and 200, Defenders 64m and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 43
  • Belladonna is pulling the puppet strings of Prowler
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 47

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 47
Release Date: July 1976

Highlights

  • Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 16, and 17
  • Abridged retelling of Basilisk's origin
Low Points
  • Villain of the week action
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 47



Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 47
Release Date: April 1967

Highlights
  • Though events have unfolded through The Amazing Spider-Man issue 46, issue 47 begins with  a flashback, taking place during the events of issue 34
  • Kraven returns for revenge against Spider-Man
  • The Daily Bugle headline informs the Green Goblin is dead, having burned in a fire (issue 40), only Peter Parker knows he's really Norman Osborn, and alive
  • Aunt May is getting settled in with Anna Watson, while Peter is equally content living with Harry
  • Peter Parker and Norman Osborn meet again for the first time since loosing his memory that Spider-Man and Peter Parker were the same person
  • Norman offers Peter a job at his company
  • The gang throws Flash a going away party - He's leaving for the Army the next day from being drafted
    Low Points
    • None
    Oddities
    • Kraven says he never makes the same mistake twice, but he's lost to Spider-Man like three or four times at this point
    • Kraven says he's developed a new weapon, and then literally shoots two laser ray blasts from his nipples...Um....Neat?
    • Kraven has Spider-Man down for the count, only needs to finish him off, but instead leaves
    Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)


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