Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man

  

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 54
Release Date: May 1981

Highlights

• First appearance of Maggia members, Onihashi, Kaneshiro, Dumont, and Rumsford

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man catches a falling sign, and says, "These signs are lot lighter then they look..."
• The police say they have no evidence to search a ship, but Spider-Man literally just saved a man that was kidnapped and then shot in the back while escaping - What more probable cause do you need?

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 54

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 54
Release Date: February 1977

Highlights

• Reference is made to Marvel Premiere 31
• Spider-Man is knocked unconscious, and launched into space in a rocket

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 54

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 54

Release Date: November 1967

Highlights

• Doc Ock moves in with Aunt May and Anna Watson
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 1 and issue 33
• Signs of a rift in Peter Parker and Harry Osborns friendship starts to show
• Peter Parker meets Robbie Robertson for the first time
• Peter Parker discovers Doc Ock is living with his Aunt May
• Spider-Man and Doc Ock fight in Aunt May's house and this causes her to collapse
• Peter swears the next time he meets Doc Ock he'll rid the world of him

Low Points

• Aunt May takes Doc Ock in as a roommate while Anna Watson is out of town - Doesn't she get a say in who will rent the room? It is her house after all and she's letting Aunt May stay there

Oddities

• The phone rings and Aunt May automatically assumes it's Peter calling - Which it is. Psychic?
• Doc Ock radios his men at their lair to come to his aid at Aunt May and Anna Watson's house, and within seconds they're mobilized and attacking Spider-Man

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