Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 133
Release Date: December 1987
Highlights
- Last issues titled Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man, all the remaining issues in the run are simply titled, The Spectacular Spider-Man
- Last appearance of Frank Gibbs, Vicky Gibbs, Jacob Gibbs, Tanya Gibbs, and Mary
- Peter Parker, still drugged up, and trapped in the Mad Dog Ward, sits in a wheelchair telling himself he is spider
- Zero asks Peter when he's going to lead another revolt, and is told that the last one was a bad idea
- Zero is then grabbed by two wardens, who tell him there's a mission downstairs for him
- Mary tells Peter about the lobotomy, and Peter tells her they have to get everyone here off the drugs so that he can help Zero
- Mary agrees to help
- Frank comes home to his kids Tanya and Jacob, and gets angry at them for not being in bed
- Tanya pulls a gun on him, and he finally tells them everything - His mob life, the reason their mother got put in the ward, and that he'll help them get her out, but that they'll be on the run the rest of their lives
- Arranger tells Kingpin about the man in the ward claiming to be Spider-Man, and the still unnamed doctor's wish to poke at his brain
- Kingpin tells Arranger that he was hired to make decisions, and he in turn tells the doctor to do whatever he wants with the man claiming to be Spider-Man as long as it doesn't compromise the ward
- Mary has done her part, and the patients are all off their medications and sedatives
- Peter too is feeling his strength return
- A riot in the ward starts again, and this time Peter is ready for the fight, but Brainstorm is brought into it and ordered to stop everyone
- Peter makes short order of him
- Meanwhile, Frank has infiltrated the hospital, and puts a gun to the unnamed doctor, demanding his wife be released
- Peter, Vicky, and Frank leave the hospital, taking the doctor with them, and stating their going to put the police onto the illegal operations of the hospital
- From the rooftops, Zero watches with a smile
- Peter in disguise leads Ben Urich to the hospital, promising a story, but upon their arrival, are invited to a planned press conference where the Arranger is explaining that when Mr. Fisk, as the major stock holder of the hospital, found out about the illegal operation there that he had the doctor arrested
- Peter see's Mary leaving, though she doesn't recognize him in disguise, she tells him that the story they're shilling is a lie, and that she just quit
- In their car, Frank, Vicky, Jacob, and Tanya head West - Though they're happy to be reunited, they're officially on the run from Kingpin
- It's really not that interesting of a story arc
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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