Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 74

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 74
Release Date: January 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of Mark Whitman
• Peter tells Dr. Kuklin that he'll help Debbie Whitman in his own way, not by putting on a party store Spider-Man costume
• As Spider-Man swings away from Dr. Kuklin's office, a mysterious figure watches him - A figure that looks like Black Cat, returned from the dead
• The Owl and Doctor Octopus's gangs are in a full fledge war with each other
• The truth about Debbie Whitman's past comes out, and it's one about an abused wife at the hands of her husband
• Sweet two page Spider-Man comic ad for the Spider-Man Atari cartridge
• Debbie Whitman returns home to the Midwest to finalize her divorce
• Black Cat reveals to Spider-Man that she's still alive

Low Points

• Peter reveals his identity to Debbie, but all she does is laugh, and thank him for putting on a fake costume, and shock her back to her senses

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 74

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 74
Release Date: October 1978

Highlights

• First appearance of Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, and Harry
• Stan Lee hosts Saturday Night Live
• A human Statler and Waldorf sit in the balcony seats of the Saturday Night Live studio - an obvious nod to The Muppet Show characters

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• The whole concept of the story

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 74

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: 74

Release Date: July 1969

Highlights

• Appearance by Doctor Curtis Connor with heavy foreshadowing of the return of Lizard
• Additional appearances by Silvermane, Man-Mountain Marko and Caesar Cicero

Low Points

• Nobody could read the symbol on the tablet because the hieroglyphs were biology symbols - Thus why Doctor Connors figured out how to decipher it
• The secret of the tablet is that it was a formula for the fountain of youth, making Silvermane young again

Oddities

• Why does Silvermane have to remind everyone he's old when asserting that he's in charge?
• Harry Osborn's mustache - Creepy and weird at the same time

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

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