Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 99
Release Date: February 1985
Highlights
- First appearance of Candi Muggins, Randi Cooper, Bambi Modica, and Leonard Eikhart
- First battle between Spider-Man and Spot
- First appearance of the cloth black and white Spider-Man suit
- Spot gains an understanding of how his spotted form works
- Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 96
- Spot considers not telling Kingpin about his powers, thinking they shouldn't be shared
- Peter meets his new neighbors, Candi, Randi, and Bambi
- Sha Shan comes to see Peter, and he promises he'll find out what's going on with Flash Thompson
- Flash witnesses the interaction from a distance, concluding that Peter is messing around with his girl
- Peter confides in Joe Robertson that he's having all kinds of issues with life, which are now messing up his work for the Bugle, Robertson tells him not to be so hard on himself
- Joe in turn apologizes for giving Peter such a hard time as of late, and says it's because of the strain on him as the new editor-in-chief of the paper, and nothing Peter did
- Black Cat sews, and gives Spider-Man a cloth version of his symbiote suit, but it freaks him out, and he refuses to wear it
- Black Cat begins to think that Spider-Man and her aren't meant to be, not happy with him constantly trying to change who she is / was
- Spider-Man and Black Cat head to Kingpin's headquarters to confront the man about the debt Cat owes him
- The symbiote ensnares an unnamed man from Arizona visiting New York, and takes control of his body
- When Spider-Man hears the Spot's name, he laughs in his face
- Spider-Man realizes that his spider senses don't warn him in time about Spot's attacks because they aren't a threat until they materialize through the holes
- Regardless, Spider-Man considers the villain weak, stating he hits so soft that he wouldn't hurt a Smurf
- Though unhurt, Spider-Man technically loses the battle, unable to land one punch on Spot
- None
Oddities
- Editor's Day Off: A portion of Spots leg is not colored in during his fight with Spider-Man
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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