Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 60
Release Date: November 1981
Highlights
- First appearance of Jose Rivera
- Special double size issue
- Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 108
- Peter runs into his student, Greg Salinger, and his spidey sense kicks in, but he doesn't know why - It's because Salinger is the villain, Foolkiller
- We learn that Debra Whitman makes $18,000.00 a year, and Peter is astounded by this, as it puts his salary to shame - That equated to $62K these days
- Debra admits to herself that she likes Peter, but also values the comfort that Biff brings by always being there - Whereas Peter is always cutting and running
- Something is jamming all the reporters video feed while they try to film the battle between Spider-Man and Beetle - It turns out to be the antenna in Beetles mask, the focusing point for his power source
- Gibbon gets one good punch on Beetle after the latter's fight is over with Spider-Man, and the end result is the entire city labeling Gibbon a hero
- I like that ending - It makes me curious to see more of what happens to Gibbon after the fact - Hopefully future stories revisit this
- Issue features a backup story, which is a redrawn / rewritten / retelling of Spider-Man's first story from Amazing Fantasy 15, with a lot of faithful homage panels
- First we had a Man-Wolf issue called Dark Side Of The Moon, now we have a Beetle issue called Beetlemania
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
3 Stan's for the main story, plus an additional one for the awesome recreated origin story!
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