{"id":11324,"date":"2021-11-25T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:30:21","slug":"asm-082","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/11\/25\/asm-082\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 082"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month, Romita is back to pencilling the book! Exciting. Mooney is still doing inks. The Bullpen Bulletins section announces this, and also that \u201cStan & Johnny have decided to go back to the Web-Swinger\u2019s original style of story picturization, and also put more emphasis on Peter Parker\u2019s private life, as so many of you have requested.\u201d Well, then. How\u2019s that gonna work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, so we\u2019re in it immediately! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MJ\u2019s hair is back to normal! And Harry\u2019s mustache has to follow pretty soon since it was already gone by 86. We are getting back on the right track around here. Peter has spent many of the last several issues coming home late at night to find Harry out, presumably with MJ, but she was in Florida. Harry\u2019s just a swingin\u2019 guy, I guess. Peter switches to Spider-Man to try to scare up some newsworthy photos, but half an hour later he\u2019s got nothing to show for it, and then swinging over a chimney puts him in the middle of sudden puff of smoke, covering him in soot. Dejected, he decides to go home, but he finds Harry there, shaving that stupid mustache, so he feels he can\u2019t sneak in. He tosses his regular clothes in the window of his bedroom and heads back out. Suddenly, he hits on the idea of trying to get on TV for money, and swings in the window of a local TV station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Electro getting a normal job is pretty unexpected. Electro\u2019s been bugging a few other heroes from time to time, but he hasn\u2019t shown up in the pages of ASM since Annual 1. Two long overdue comebacks in a row. As such, the gang recap his deal as he heads home to find his parole officer waiting on his stoop. He says he heard about Max\u2019s act of heroism and to keep it up, but internally, Dillion can\u2019t wait to get back to sueprvillainy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why does JJJ have a TV editorial? As Electro plots, Peter Parker goes to pick up Gwen Stacy, but he can\u2019t even afford taxi fare, he\u2019s so low, so they take the subway to meet up with Flash, Harry & MJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Electro offers to beat and unmask Spider-Man on TV if Jameson will pay him. JJJ offers $1000, and Electro counters with 5, which JJJ accepts. Jonah is gleeful as the criminal he just made a deal with goes off to attack a TV show, and meanwhile, Gwen rushes out after Peter to talk to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seems like Peter\u2019s gotten so used to hiding his identity that he\u2019s started to hide all his problems. Also seems like them finding a way to quickly whip up some of the personal drama they wanted. JJJ tells Robbie he got them tickets to the show Spider-Man will be on, and tells him to invite George Stacy, too. Robbie can obviously tell something is up, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019d ever suspect JJJ would hire a supergoon. He\u2019ll learn, tho\u2026 Meanwhile, Peter goes home to realize his Spidey suit is still dirty and his spare is torn. He washes it in the sink, but when he tries to dry it at a laundromat, it\u2019s full of people. Now here\u2019s an unusual superhero problem. And guess how he solves it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey wearing a bag over his head during the alien costume story is famous, but I\u2019ve not heard of this incident before. Pretty funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey lunges for Electro as the staff tries to clear the building. JJJ crows at Robbie & George to stay and watch what\u2019s going to happen. They both realize he did this, and after they tell him he\u2019s crazy and didn\u2019t think of what could happen to all these innocent people, he\u2019s suddenly a lot less excited. Spidey manages to keep the fight with Electro away from the fleeing crowd. As they\u2019re leaving, JJJ is still rooting for Electro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter\u2019s hair standing up is a good touch.  He\u2019s sure back to being down-on-his-luck hardcore. They didn\u2019t ease into it at all. Also on this month\u2019s Bulletins page is an item that’s just congratulating Jerry Seigel’s daughter on getting a scholarship to UCLA. That’s really nice of Stan. But much more importantly, there\u2019s a Stan\u2019s Soapbox that has really fueled the controversy over who did what in the Marvel Method, where Stan says every issue begins with a conference between writer and artist, because \u201cMarvel believes the artist contributes as much to the story as the writer does.\u201d But, of course, oftentimes the artist drew the whole book with no input from Stan, and even then he\u2019d still credit himself as \u201cwriter,\u201d making everyone think he came up with all the plots, inadvertently or otherwise. No one will ever really know what happened. Messy stuff. Finally today, JM DeMatteis has another letter printed this month, and he loved Hobie Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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