{"id":11848,"date":"2022-01-19T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=11848"},"modified":"2020-12-14T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:27:08","slug":"asm-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/01\/19\/asm-160\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 160"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oh this cover confuses me. Why? Who said, \u201cWe\u2019re doing a very silly story this month, let\u2019s make the cover a direct reference to one of the most memorable, serious ASM stories of all time?\u201d And yet, here it is, from the same art team that did the original. As this destined-to-be-goofy story begins, Spider-Man swings over a bunch of dude stealing some furs, and decides to get after them. People seemingly stole furs a lot back in the day. Not really something you hear about now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey rarely outsmarts his greatest foe, good job! I vaguely recall these goons. It\u2019s been 2 years since I read ASM 153<\/a> & 154<\/a>, at this point. Love matching uniforms for the goons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As he flips over the car, Spidey doesn\u2019t understand why his webshooters aren\u2019t working, but that\u2019s nothing compared to when he tries to climb a wall and can\u2019t. Like on the cover! But unlike on the cover, the car stays on the ground, ramming the building and forcing him to fall off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, but how did The Tinkerer (Obviously) get Norman Osborn\u2019s \u201cmake Spider-Man\u2019s powers go away\u201d gas? Unusually crisp action from Andru on this page. Spidey lands on a top of a police car, of all things, but before they can figure out what hit their roof, they spot his car, and light out after it, hoping to get a promotion for catching him. So he takes the chance to just leave. The car seems to vanish after it turns a corner, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the penultimate milkshake? Peter\u2019s done a variant of a joke about Aunt May doing crazy activites a billion times, but I think this is the only time I\u2019ve ever seen Aunt May play along. Usually it\u2019s just some version of \u201coh, you silly boy.\u201d It\u2019s a small thing, but I like it. Hang on, tho, JJJ is getting a momentous delivery:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robbie is weirdly loving this secretary drama. \u201cMrs. Primm.\u201d Really on the nose, Len! What\u2019s depicted in JJJ\u2019s photos? A plot thread that would utterly confuse me as a young lad, but that\u2019s for later. Back at his place, Peter Parker tests all his powers and finds them working again, wondering how a gas could make his webshooters quit working, and also complaining of acid indigestion. Yes, the tendency to give Peter regular people problems has led to acid reflux. As Spider-Man, he heads out to try to find his errant car. Not just because it\u2019s on a rampage, but because he still feels like he has to give it to Carter & Lombard to avoid being sued. I still wonder how they can sue a masked adventurer. Spider-Man stupidly dives into a mysteriously misty alleyway only to discover it\u2019s that gas again, and then the car comes at him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Running out of room to move and super powers, Spidey jumps for it And totally whiffs it, falling to his doom as he so often does, only to be webbed to safety by his own car. It whips him into the back seat and delivers him, all webbed up, to The Terrible Tinkerer, as anticipated. Tink hasn\u2019t appeared in a Spider-Man comic since ASM #2! That\u2019s a hell of a deep pull from Len. Tinkerer would go on to a relatively prominent villain role for Spider-Man and others from here, but right now, Spidey hasn\u2019t seen him in 158 months, and last he saw him, he thought he was an alien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toy is easily one of the most uncomfortable ideas ever introduced in these pages. Officially making him a robot later helped a little, but\u2026 woof. As Toy is trapped in a pile of bricks, Tink tries to escape in the Spider-Mobile, but Spidey grabs the bumper and won\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, it\u2019s nice that the car thing is finally over. Not much else to recommend here. The car having Spider-Man\u2019s web was always dumb, and Tinkerer making anti-Spider-Man gas is a bit much. Ah, well. Tune in next time for an issue actually quite near & dear to my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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