Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 53

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 53
Release Date: April 1981

Highlights

• Toy is destroyed when he's accidentally shot by his own creator
• Toy didn't know he was a robot until his "death"
• Cool panel with various Tinkerer toys, one of which is a stuffed bear with a knife in one hand, and a pistol in the other
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, 160, 183, and 184
• Tinkerer claims to have built the equipment Rocket Racer, and Big Wheel
• Human Torch in a Hostess Cupcake ad
• Tinkerer is distraught at Toy "dying", crying that he doesn't want to be alone
• Spider-Man acknowledges that everyone needs a friend, even if it's a toy

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• The cops want to ask questions of our hero, but on of them still has to be told not to shoot as Spider-Man swings away - Why would they open fire if he's wanted for questioning?
• Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man's lenses are red in a couple panels

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 53

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 53
Release Date: January 1977

Highlights

• Reference is made to Marvel Premiere 31, and Marvel Team-Up Annual 1
  

Low Points

• Adequate story of the week material, but nothing special by any means

Oddities

• More life saving power from that spray on radiation protectant noted in Marvel Team-Up Annual 1

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Comics Corner: The Fantastic Four 53

Title: Fantastic Four

Issue Number: 53

Release Date:August 1966

Highlights

• Black Panther story continues
• Origin of Black Panther
• First appearance of Klaw and T'Chaka
• First mention of Vibranium
• Death of T'Chaka
• Klaw obtains his force glove
• Klaw enters his own machine, beginning his transformation from human to sound - But that is a cliffhanger story for another time (The Fantastic Four issue 56)

Low Points

• Black Panther built the mechanize Wakanda jungle on a, "Lark".

Oddities

• Despite The Fantastic Four being attacked for no reason by Black Panther in the prior issue, suddenly he's a good guy and they're friends?
  Wait, now all of a sudden he's a good guy? I'm glad, but what's with the flip flop?
• Black Panther can sense that Klaw has returned for a second attack after ten years?

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 53

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 53

Release Date: October 1967

Highlights

• Doc Ock returns for revenge
• Peter asks Gwen out for the first time
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man issue 33
• Anna Watson and Aunt May put an ad in the paper for a roommate
• Doc Ock uses Spider-Man's own spider track to lure him into a trap
• Doc Ock things he's killed Spider-Man in an explosion and seeks out a place to lay low
• Dock Ock answers the classified ad to move in with Anna Watson and Aunt May

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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