Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 61
Release Date: January 1981

Highlights

• First appearance of the St. Luke's Hospital location
• Spider-Man saves a falling kid who was mimicking him by climbing down a building with a set of bed sheets that rip
• Spider-Man explains to the kid that being a super hero isn't all glitz and glamour
• Moonstone destroys Spider-Man spider signal light
• Reference is made to The Incredible Hulk 228 - 233, Captain America 230, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 34, and 40
• Spider-Man accidentally calls Peter Parker's co-worker, Marcy, by name (twice) when she's in trouble, and this doesn't go unnoticed by the girl

Low Points

• Debra Whitman again doubts her relationship with Biff Rifkin as she instead dwells on Peter - Kind of makes her the jerk in that relationship if you ask me - Stringing the guy along because he's better than being alone - Biff deserves better

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Defenders 61

   

Title: Defenders
Issue Number: 61
Release Date: July 1978

Highlights

• Reference is made to Defenders 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, and Marvel Team-Up 8
• Lunatik is stated to have caught a fourteen year old shoplifter...and killed her - Living up to the name for sure
• Lunatik says he's cuckoo for Coco-Puffs - Relatable!

Low Points

• Spider-Man feels shoehorned in, and an unnecessary MacGuffin

Oddities

• Editor's day off: Spider-Man's leneses are red in some panels, and the webbing design on his mask is missing in others

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 61

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 61
Release Date: September 1977

Highlights

• Reference is made to Marvel Chiller 7
• Lots of action

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 61

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 62

Release Date: July 1968

Highlights

• First Gwen Stacy and Captain Stacy cover
• Kingpin returns in this finale to a three part story arc
• Norman Osborn feels there's a connection with the Green Goblin, but he simply can't remember
• Death of Gerhard Winkler - Who dies in an explosion after being tackled by Norman Osborn
• Captain Stacy's name is (presumably) cleared of any crimes        

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Captain Stacy tells Gwen that he has to go into hiding, but when she begs him not to, he says, "I have to. Because HE wants it that way." - Who is "he"? Kingpin? If that were true, why do his goons bust into Stacy's house just a few panels later? Wouldn't Kingpin have known he went on the run? Possibly even to where?
• Norman Osborn is a pushover as a boss. Winkler (Kingpin's henchman / scientist) purchased all the equipment without Norman's approval, and yet when he finds out about it, he concedes quickly saying, "Okay. Don't do it again."
• Winkler has a device that can hone in on people he's brainwashed

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