Comics Corner: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 86

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 86
Release Date: January 1984

Highlights

• Assistant Editor's Month
• First appearance of Bob DeNatlale, Fred Hembeck, and Danny Fingeroth
• Despite its comedic approach, the story is 100% Spider-Man cannon
• The Fly takes over a garbage scow, and begins feasting
• The Fly realizes he's turning more and more into a fly every day, losing his humanity, and he determines himself to get revenge on J. Jonah Jameson and Spider-Man
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 10
• Spider-Man decides to let Black Cat stay by his side, and says he'll show her everything about him, starting with where he, Peter Parker, works
• Black Cat tells Spider-Man that she doesn't understand why he would want to be anyone other than Spider-Man twenty-four hours a day - She doesn't grasp his concept of needing to work for a living
• Spider-Man tells Black Cat the origin of the Fly
• J. Jonah Jameson learns that Black Cat and Spider-Man are together as a couple
• The story ends with Spider-Man taking Black Cat to Peter's home
• Because this issue immediately leads into the pages of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 87, it would technically make this the beginning of the symbiote saga, but...

Low Points

• ...The continuity for Spider-Man's chronological reading order is about to get all wonky over the next several issues of the multiple books, and the timeline of events are not going to occur sequentially
• Further, some of those timelines aren't chronologically possible based on the events unfolding from issue to issue

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 86

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 86
Release Date: October 1979

Highlights

• First appearance of Ivor Carlson, Eric Salter, Lawrence Whittier "Rap" Reynolds III
• Reference is made to X-Men 119, Giant-Size Spider-Man 4, Avengers 167, and The Incredible Hulk 182
• Generic in every sense, but a good action story

Low Points

• Hammer and Anvil are pretty lame and forgettable villains

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 86

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 86
Release Date: July 1970

Highlights

• Black Widow makes her first appearance in a Spider-Man title, and debuts her all new costume
• Peter thinks he's losing his Spider-Man powers, and even draws his own blood to check it under a microscope, and that's where the cliffhanger ending leaves you on the edge of your seat
  

Low Points

• Black Widow's appearance is nothing more than a comic length advertisement for her own appearance in the upcoming Amazing Tales title
  

Oddities

• Black Widow attacks Spider-Man for no other reason than she wants to find out about his powers and copy them - Um...Can you just ask? Nobody in the Marvel Universe uses their big boy words

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