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After JJJ storms, off, Robbie tells Peter Schmidt left behind a fortune in antiques, but has no family to claim them, so they\u2019re being put up for auction. Peter thinks he\u2019ll check out that auction to see if anything seems off. Now that Black Cat\u2019s \u201cdead,\u201d he figures maybe he can take Deb Whitman. So classy. Meanwhile, in a seedy bar, a guy pays another guy for services rendered, and is given a pair of antique earrings. Seems like something that could\u2019ve come from Schmidt\u2019s house. Then we jump ahead a week to the auction, which is being held right in the old house. Peter is creeped out, and barely paying attention to Deb as usual until a real rude guy snatches an antique quill pen out of her hand and declares he\u2019s just bought all the French items in the collection. \u201cJunque.\u201d Peter thinks he better follow that guy, and abandons Deb as usual, she has the usual thoughts about how lame he is and he has the usual thoughts about how bad he feels, ugh. Same ol, same ol. He follows Junque\u2019s car, but soon gets the strange feeling he had the night before, calling him somewhere, and he abandons the chase to follow it. It takes him to a building known for its rich residents. He\u2019s seen swinging in an open window, so the cops are on their way. As the feeling lures him further into the building, he suddenly feels the rage build up like it did last night. He comes to a conclusion: I\u2026 am not sold on this premise. But then he hears a scream and leaps off toward it. The cops beat him there, though, and he has to muscle through them to get inside. Spidey picks up the still breathing but unconscious woman, and amid a hail of gunfire, flips out the window to get her to a hospital as fast as possible. The old lady\u2019s going to make it thanks to his quick action, but he\u2019s stolen her earrings. On the way over, he\u2019s worked out that something has to be emitting the signal drawing the spiders (and him) to these crime scenes, and he thinks he\u2019ll find the transmitter in the earrings. And they just happen to be the earrings given as payment for the previous killing. Speaking of which, later that night, the guy who gave those earrings reads about Spider-Man interfering in this latest attack. Sure, ok. No sillier than Dr. Doom contacting Spider-Man on his Spider Sense like it was a radio way back in the day. The next day, we find Spidey out swinging around. He\u2019s confirmed there was a transmitter in the earrings, but he\u2019s no closer to finding the culprit. His only hope is to swing around until he hears \u201cthe murder signal\u201d again. And soon he does. He follows it to an old warehouse, where the guy in the glasses is waiting for him. Spidey tells him this is all over. Spider-Man closes in on the guy, who helpfully lets us know Junque wanted Schmidt killed and the old lady\u2019s nephew wanted her money, but then a big crate drops on him, and he barely dodges it in time. The Spider Sense is such a dubious thing. I really wish writers would let it be. It doesn\u2019t make sense, it\u2019s pretty silly already\u2026 don\u2019t lean into that. Don\u2019t build a whole plot around it. Use it and all, it\u2019s there and it can be interesting, but just\u2026 let it be. Anyhow, turns out Spidey\u2019s actually pretty good at dodging bullets without his Spider Sense, letting the guy empty his revolver without connecting once. Disarmed, the still unnamed villain acts scared and runs into the next room while planting a bomb on the door. Without his Spider Sense to detect it, Spidey\u2019s finished. Except it blows up and then he comes running in unharmed. He explains that he made a web shield and then threw something at the door just to be safe, not that I think he really needed to justify his existence. That was certainly offbeat. Not especially shocking. Not especially good, either. Looked nice, though. I believe this is the only fill-in during the Stern\/Romita run, so get ready for nothing but hits from ASM for a good while here. Would that the same could be said for Marvel Team-Up… It\u2019s a fill-in! I\u2019ve never read it. When I was collecting the Stern\/JRJR run, I found out this wasn\u2019t them and skipped it. But I have it now. 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