Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 49
Release Date: April 1989
Highlights
- First appearance and death of Winston Shepherd
- First appearance of Sal
- Spider-Man stops Winston from selling drugs to a kid, and then tosses all his drugs into the wind to blow away
- The story flashes back to Mary Jane meeting her friend Lorraine, who's with Winston
- Lorraine and Mary Jane go to the former's apartment, and she crashes out from drug induced side effects
- Mary Jane calls the Bugle looking for Peter, who's in Kate Cushing's office being reamed out
- Unknowingly, Mary Jane ends up on the phone with Kate, and tells her that she knows her husband is in with that "ice queen", referring to Kate, and to please get him for her
- Mary Jane points out Winston to Peter from the window, and asks him to make him go away
- Peter proposes a series of photographs of a day in the life of a drug dealer to Kate, and she tells him to go do it
- Back in the present, Spider-Man tracks down Winston again, and stops him from selling drugs to someone else
- Winston calls Sal, and tells him about his troubles
- Sal sends him to a specific location to get a resupply, but tells him that if he leads Spider-Man to him that he'll kill him
- Mary Jane attempts to get Lorraine checked in to rehab, but keeps getting told there's a waiting list
- When they find a private institute they're told that it's $50,000.00 year, which they can't afford
- This portion of the story is intercut with Spider-Man breaking up more of Winston's attempted sales
- After dropping Lorraine off at home, Mary Jane leaves, and shortly after, so does Lorraine
- Across town, Winston makes his way to Sal, and pleads for help
- Sal shouts at him, telling him he warned him not to come there, and shoots the dealer
- Spider-Man enters the warehouse, and is met with gunfire
- Mary Jane returns to Lorraine's house to tell her that some of her well off friends will help with rehab costs, but finds she isn't there
- Spider-Man makes short order of the criminals, and approaches a dying Winston, who he promises to get to a hospital
- Winston asks him why he did all of this to him, and Spider-Man says because of Lorraine, to which he responds, "Who's Lorraine?"
- Peter turns over the photos to Kate, and then goes to find Mary Jane, only to learn that Lorraine has overdosed, and is in the hospital\
- She cries about how even though Winston is gone that all she did was find another pusher to sell her drugs, finding the whole effort pointless
- Peter tells her it wasn't pointless, but rather that the fight against drugs is long
- As the two walk off, a new dealer takes his place on the corner
- No major villains, just a preachy story
Oddities
- Editor's Day Off: Mary Jane tells her friend Lorraine, "Tomorrow when you're feeling better, we'll just just show up at one."
- The Daily Bugle wants a story on a day in the life of a drug dealer
- It sounds odd on the surface, but Spider-Man breaks up every deal before they can happen
- The woman at the private facility tells Lorraine that it took years to get addicted to drugs
- Not that I'm on drugs or anything, but I'm pretty sure it happens a lot faster than that
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