{"id":1122,"date":"2019-07-31T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:06:54","slug":"tac-067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/31\/tac-067\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 067"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What lurks behind Ed Hannigan\u2019s Frank Miller impression? Seems like a lot! It\u2019s been a minute since I\u2019ve seen a Spectacular. This one\u2019s by writer Bill Mantlo, penciler Ed Hannigan, inker Al Milgrom & ubiquitous colorist Bob Sharen. It begins with an informant who turned state\u2019s evidence being blown up by Boomerang, one of the silliest mercenaries in the Marvel Universe. As the informant\u2019s handlers rush into his building after the explosion, Boomerhang is happy to give him his Official Handbook of The Marvel Universe entry:
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Preposterous! Boomerang flies away from the befuddled g-men, and that\u2019s it for that. Yeah, man Boomerang flies. Doesn’t that seem like it would be outside his powerset? Does he come back if you throw him? Hours later, Peter Parker is besieged by phone calls.
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The final call is Aunt May, who Peter preemptively yells at before he knows it\u2019s her. She\u2019s calling to make sure he remembered he\u2019s taking her to the cemetery for the anniversary of Uncle Ben\u2019s death tomorrow, and he says he\u2019ll be there. Apparently, he fought Electro last issue, and his costume is ruined, so be spends the day repairing it, and then heads out as Spider-Man. He swings past The Kingpin\u2019s office, segueing into the next scene\u2026
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Kingpin lists Boomerang\u2019s many failures in past comics and tells him to get lost, so Boomerang beats up all Kingpin\u2019s guards to prove himself. He even throws one of his silly boomerangs at Kingpin, who catches and crushes it. For some reason, he decides to give Boomerang a chance. If he can kill Spider-Man, there will be more work for him. Boomie flies off to get beat up\u2026
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Later, Peter is at school, thinking of giving up his assistant teaching job because he\u2019s living too many lives. Marcy Kane shows up to tell him he\u2019s got a promising career as a photographer, but clearly doesn\u2019t care about this, then Dr. Sloan catches him to pile on some guilt, too. He slinks away feeling down about himself, and then things get weird.
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Bad time for Deb Whitman to find him. He makes her feel bad so she\u2019ll run off and not see what he did to the locker, because that\u2019s their relationship, and then spends the rest of the day being run ragged in classes. When his school day is finally over, Spider-Man takes to the sky, and finds his way to The Daily Bugle, where Boomerang is waiting for him, having heard he\u2019s seen there all the time.
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\u201cTweety-Spider?\u201d Really? They do some fightin\u2019, and soon JJJ sees them fighting right outside his window and demands a photographer.
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Spidey sees Lance Bannon getting shots of them fighting, and the last thing his wants is that guy making money off this, so he takes the fight back outside and \u201caccidentally\u201d wrecks Bannon\u2019s camera in the process. Throughout this whole incident, Spidey & Boomerang have both been making way too many baseball references due to Boomerang\u2019s past as a pitcher. I don\u2019t think this has ever happened before or since in a Boomerang story, and it gets old fast.
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Spidey manages to disarm Boomerang of his many weapons, and he panics and tries to run for it. Meanwhile, Kingpin\u2019s goons are watching from the ground. As Boomerang tries to hide in a dark alley, the goons pull up in a car, about to execute him.
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Spidey, of course. He lets Boomerang defend himself, but then just webs him up with the others and calls the cops. As the whole lot gets hauled in, Spidey gets some good photos of it to outdo Lance Bannon, figuring he deserves some kind of win today. Aaaaand we\u2019re out. Neatly tied up. Come back next time for one of the most famous Spider-Man stories ever!
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