Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 71

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 71
Release Date: October 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of the Gun Smugglers
• First appearance and death of Officer O'Rourke

Low Points

• Robbie's stance on gun ownership
• The moral of the story - guns are bad, and people shouldn't own them
• I don't read Spider-Man for political views

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 71

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 71
Release Date: July 1978

Highlights

• First appearance of Doctor Jonas Cobb

Low Points

• Story wraps up and ends suddenly - No really sense of a fleshed out story

Oddities

• Falcon thinks just because Spider-Man was seen at the lab when he showed up that he must be the one who poisoned Captain America, and attacks without first asking questions...The Marvel way!
• Editor's day off - What is up with the lenses of Spider-Man being colored red so frequently from issue to issue?

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 71

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 71

Release Date: April 1969

Highlights

• Appearances by Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Todd
• Reference is made to The Avengers issue 53, but it's not crucial to the story nor featuring Spider-Man
• Events of this issue unfold in the timeline of The Avengers issue 62, but it's not crucial to the story nor featuring Spider-Man
• We find out that J. Jonah Jameson is just in shock and didn't actually have a heart attack

Low Points

• Quicksilver decides that he is the man for the job to bring Spider-Man to justice to redeem himself from his past evil doings
• Story is 100% filler and throw away material. No real conflict or resolution

Oddities

• Spider-Man can't seem to figure out how to get rid of the tablet - He finally figures out he can leave it with Captain Stacy - Took you long enough, genious
• Peter gets a check and says he now has enough money to pay Harry his share of the rent, but when he moved in with Harry, it was established it would be rent free because Norman Osborn was paying for the place

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