Showing posts with label Issue 85. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Issue 85. Show all posts

Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 85

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 85
Release Date: December 1983

Highlights

  • Hobgoblin perfects Norman Osborn's goblin formula, removing the explosive side effect
  • Harry Osborn and his wife Liz are having a baby
  • Flash Thompson seems unhappy about their announcement, and won't talk to Peter about it
  • Peter and Mary Jane finally have a brief, but civil conversation, leaving Peter wondering if she still loves him - He shrugs it off remembering Black Cat
  • Black Cat reminds Spider-Man that he was going to take off his mask and reveal himself to her, but when essentially asked again, Spider-Man says he's not ready for that
  • Black Cat admits that she's in love with Spider-Man, and not the man under the mask
  • Black Cat tells Spider-Man that her "power of bad luck" which she originally showcased in her first appearances wasn't a power at all, rather her rigging rooms with traps
  • Hearing that she has no super powers, Spider-Man insists on taking her home, but they're impeded by an attacking Hobgoblin
  • Black Cat springs into the fight, eager to show Spider-Man she can handle her own
  • Black Cat continuously gets in the way during the fight, and the end result is Hobgoblin getting away
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • Editor's Day Off: Peter says to Flash Thompson, "So much much for my Dear Abby routine."
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 85

  

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 85
Release Date: September 1979

Highlights

  • Reference is made to Special Marvel Edition 15
  • Viper is thrown from the Shield carries - Is she dead? No
Low Points
  • Story arc was too long and drawn out with no pay off
  • Political story hidden in a four issue story arc
Oddities
  • None
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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 85

 

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 85
Release Date: June 1970 

Highlights

  • The three issue story arc featuring the Schemer, Kingpin and Vanessa Fisk wraps up
  • The Schemer is revealed to be Richard Fisk
Low Points
  • The story really didn't have all that much "meat" to it that it had to be stretched over three issues
Oddities
  • Kingpin is literally left frozen in a comatose state from the shock of discovering the Schemer is his son
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