Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 89

  

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 89
Release Date: January 1980

Highlights

• First appearance of Cutthroat, AKA Daniel Leighton
• A man in the crowd at the circus is wearing a Superman shirt
• Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 67

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Amanda Sefton says, "I want bath."
• Nightcrawler has a car at the airport to pick his girlfriend Amanda up, but then puts her in the trunk of Jardine's car thinking it's safer to keep her with him while he tails the villain - Um...Just give her the keys to your car, and tell her you'll meet up with her later
• Amos Jardine's plan is to have an assassin kill Spider-Man, and thinks posting a challenge in the paper for the hero to prove he's better than his high wire act would be sufficient to get him to appear at the show where his assassin waits in the rafters

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 89

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 89
Release Date: October 1970

Highlights

• Doc Ock lives, and he's not happy with Spider-Man for foiling his prior plans
• Sweet splash page cliffhanger ending with Spider-Man being thrown from a roof by Doc Ock
  

Low Points

• So this issue is all about the subtle message of pollution is bad
  

Oddities

• Why does Randy Robertson always want to protest about something? Seriously, every issue he's in, he's either organizing or actively participating in a protest
• Why didn't Peter's spidey sense go off when Doc Ock was in an alley as he walked past it?
  

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