Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 98

   

Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 98
Release Date: January 1985

Highlights

• First appearance of Johnny Ohnn as Spot
• First appearance of the location Chez Jose, and the Spotted Dimension
• Spider-Man comes to see Black Cat, determined to get answers
• Reference is made to "recent" issues of Daredevil, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 95, 96, Thor 350, and The Avengers 249
• Johnny Ohnn shows Kingpin his research on Cloak's powers, but the villain doesn't seem interested when he's informed that Dagger's power wasn't analyzed
• Harnessing the power, Johnny opens a black hole, and steps into it out of scientific curiosity, a blackout across New York follows
• The symbiote maneuvers in the shadows of the dark city, searching for Spider-Man
• The blackout interrupts the chat Spider-Man was about to have with Black Cat, forcing the two to investigate
• Betty Leeds, and Flash Thompson are out to dinner with each other, both questioning if what they're doing is wrong, or normal for two people in sour relationships to see friends for dinner
• Johnny Ohnn finds himself in a dimension of polka dot black spots
• Johnny returns back to his dimension, covered from head to toe in black spots, and inadvertently sticks his hand through one, questioning where it went
• Black Cat finally confesses to Spider-Man that she got her powers from Kingpin
• Spider-Man says he wants to be along the rest of the night, but that tomorrow the two are going to pay a visit to Kingpin

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• During the middle of a fight with some petty robbers, Spider-Man tells Black Cat his origin again, and in turn she tells him hers again
• Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man, while telling Black Cat his origin, says, "So that no man could ever arm an innocent again." He meant, "harm"
• With zero facts or reasoning why, Spider-Man has deduced that the symbiote was taking his body out at night while he was sleeping, causing him to be so tired

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 98

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 98
Release Date: October 1980

Highlights

• We skip over Marvel Team-Up 97, which doesn't feature Spider-Man, nor is it part of his chronological story
• First appearance of "Loose-Lips" Lonigan
• Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 73
• The Owl is back, but confined to a hovering mobility chair

Low Points

• Story just abruptly ends

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man's lenses are red in some panels
• Spider-Man refers the what Black Widow is swinging on as "her web-line" - Um...Does she shoot webbing now?

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Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 98

     

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 98
Release Date: July 1971 

Highlights

• The three part drug story arc sans the Comics Code's approval wraps up
• The Green Goblin continues to prowl after Spider-Man
  
• Peter Parker beats the stuffing out of Harry's drug pusher and his two goons
• Gwen returns from London and heads straight into Peter's arms
  

Low Points

• Peter kind of blames Mary Jane for Harry's drug use - Because she broke up with him he turned to drugs
• The issue wraps up too conveniently, without any hard hitting climax that it was building up to
  

Oddities

• Green Goblin faints when he sees Harry in a hospital bed and Spider-Man simply takes him home and puts him in bed, assuming that the shock will return him to a state of amnesia and normality, forgetting Peter Parker is Spider-Man - Which it probably will
  

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