Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 63
Release Date: February 1982
Highlights
- First appearance of Mrs. Johnson, Simon Jacobs, and Mrs. Jacobs
- First appearance of the New Jersey location, Englewood
- A whole group of secondary cast members make an appearance: Flash Thompson, Sha Shan, Harry Osborn, and Liz Allen
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 173
- Peter is so broke that he hasn't paid his phone bill resulting in the line being disconnected
- Peter raids his life savings to make a call at a payphone, and his life savings is literally a jar with eight to ten coins - Dude is broke
- Spider-Man tracks down Harry and Liz, and then proceeds to trash their house in a fight against Molten Man, and then it burns down
- Spider-Man's response to burning down Harry's house is that Harry can use his insurance to build a new house - Spoke like a true broke person who doesn't understand the value of money - How about some consideration for deductibles, and higher rates?
- At the end of the story, Spider-Man just walks away - Leaving an unconscious Molten Man at the bottom of a now dried out pool, and without saying so much as sorry for helping destroy Harry and Liz's home
- Very sloppily written story - This is not usual for Bill Mantlo
Oddities
- A fire fighter explains that since the hospital which is set ablaze never opened, that the sprinklers were never turned on - That's not how that works...Just saying
- How was Molten Man walking around Harry and Liz's house without burning it down prior to Spider-Man showing up?
- Spider-Man wants to bring Molten Man to justice for burning down a hospital because an "innocent man" will go to jail for it if he doesn't - Except the part where said innocent man was only at the hospital because he brought Molotov cocktails to burn it down, Molten Man just beat him to it
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