Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 52
Release Date: March 1981

Highlights

• Finally, all the backup stories from previous issues make sense
• Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 9, 10, 20, and 49
• Spider-Man finds the bird that he hit accidentally with a spider tracer in issue 49
• Gideon Mace, being held from behind by Spider-Man gives his men the order to shoot through him to get Spider-Man, which they do, taking out their commander
• Hector removes the amulet of the White Tiger, and steps down from the mantle of hero
• Hector asks Blackbyrd to give the amulets back to the Sons of the Tiger

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 52

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 52
Release Date: December 1976

Highlights

• First and only appearance of Abner Doolittle
• Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 1, Captain America 201, 202, Marvel Premiere 20, and Tales of Suspense 75
• Aunt May gets out of the hospital, after being sent there during the events in The Amazing Spider-Man 159

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Rather than try to help the scared and confused unnamed creature, Captain American instead sets a bomb to kill it

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Comics Corner: The Fantastic Four 52

Title: Fantastic Four

Issue Number: 52

Release Date:July 1966

Highlights

• First appearance of Black Panther
• Additional appearances by Black Bolt, Crystal, Karnak, Medusa, Gorgon, Maximus and Wyatt Wingfoot
• The Fantastic Four are invited to visit Wakanda

Low Points

• Black Panther invites The Fantastic Four to Wakanda and then immediately attacks them
• Cliff hanger ending - I really didn't want to read another issue for the full story

Oddities

• Wait...Black Panther is a bad guy?

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Comics Corner: Tales Of Suspense 52

Title: Marvel Spotlight

Issue Number:52

Release Date:April 1984

Highlights

• First appearance of Black Widow, Valeria Reynolds, Widow Wentworth, Crimson Dynamo / Boris Turgenov, Great Kamir, Hugo the assistant and Kent Bentley
• Appearances by Iron Man / Tony Stark, Crimson Dynamo / Anton Vanko, Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts and Watcher
• Special appearance by Nikita Khruschev
• Death of Boris Turgenov and Anton Vanko

Low Points

• Not the Black Widow that many will recognize, know and love
• Second story is unrelated to Iron Man or Black Widow
• Uninspiring and boring story

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 52

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 52

Release Date: September 1967

Highlights

• Kingpin is back for a finale in this three issue story arc
• Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson are tied up in the sub-cellar of the building with lots of running water to drown them
• Second appearance of Robbie Robertson
• Spider-Man helps J. Jonah Jameson escape the water trap in the cellar, and still gets treated like the bad guy by him
• Frederick Foswell dies trying to help J. Jonah Jameson escape the cellar

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Spider-Man is out cold from his last fight with Kingpin, but nobody takes his mask off?

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