{"id":12014,"date":"2022-02-10T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2020-12-16T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:54:22","slug":"tac-004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/02\/10\/tac-004\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I mean\u2026 maybe. But this particular Vulture sure isn\u2019t. Dave Cockrum is supplying covers for both ancillary Spider-Man titles now. I wonder why. Maybe he just really wanted to draw Spidey and didn\u2019t have time for interiors. Archie Goodwin, Sal Buscema, Mike Esposito. As we begin, a mob muscle guy named \u201cJoe Knuckles\u201d is on the run from The Vulture at 3 in the morning. Joe says it was a mistake, and he was just doing what he was paid to do as The Vulture swoops him off the ground and carts him away\u2026 right past, if you can believe it, the bedroom window of one Peter Parker, who is roused from sleep by Joe\u2019s screams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe climbs out of the drink and returns to his boss, um, Boss Morgan, confusingly last seen on the blog in the upcoming TAC 7<\/a>. This place is kind of a mess. Anyway, ol\u2019 Boss had decided that, with Kingpin & Hammerhead out of the picture, someone\u2019s gotta step in and take over, in what I think is the 2nd ever instance of this now well-worn Marvel Comics plot? Maybe more, I dunno. He plans to try to recruit Vulture into his plans and double cross him later. The next morning, Peter Parker finds he must\u2019ve turned off his alarm when The Vulture woke him up, and now he\u2019s late for class. As Spider-Man, he catches up to his bus, but is knocked off the roof as it passes under a low hanging branch for comedy effect. Slayed out in the street, he\u2019s almost run over by Boss Morgan\u2019s car, driving to pay The Vulture a visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later, a dejected Peter walks home, when he happens by the place he & Flash saw Sha Shan last issue. The angry man who ran them off answers the door, saying no one by that name is there even as we see her crying inside, out of view. Peter walks on, worried something is up, when The Vulture flies overhead. Vulture\u2019s shop must be near Peter\u2019s apartment. Vulture has been grabbing people off the street and putting them on a ledge high up on a building, pledging to take 15 hostages if Spider-Man doesn\u2019t show up. So, one quick change later, Spidey\u2019s about to show up. Meanwhile, we see Boss Morgan has hired The Hitman, the least creatively named villain of all time, to go get The Vulture for him. Back at the hostage situation, cops have cordoned off the street, but don\u2019t want to make a move that might endanger the hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These figures look unusually solid for a Buscema\/Esposito joint. Sal must be doing tighter pencils. Spidey\u2019s plan to distract Vulture away from his hostages works, but now he\u2019s got a fightin\u2019 mad grandpa after him. He tries to lead him into an office building to take away his room to maneuver (Thinking the staff would probably be at lunch, even), only to find the building empty and not providing much cover. Vulture has him on the run until tackling him back outside, but then Spidey webs himself out of his foe\u2019s clutches to try to gain the advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So\u2026 Morgan\u2019s plan is to\u2026 hurt Vulture\u2019s feelings by killing the guy he wants to kill before he can kill him himself? Um\u2026 Well. Ok. Oh, hey, turns out this is The Hitman\u2019s debut. I\u2019m kinda surprised. Archie Goodwin could do better for a name than \u201cThe Hitman.\u201d But, he\u2019s here, so we\u2019ll have to see how Spidey gets out of this one next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mean\u2026 maybe. But this particular Vulture sure isn\u2019t. Dave Cockrum is supplying covers for both ancillary Spider-Man titles now. I wonder why. Maybe he just really wanted to draw Spidey and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[777,778,787,52,37,121,2,98],"class_list":["post-12014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1970s","tag-archie-goodwin","tag-boss-morgan","tag-hitman","tag-mike-esposito","tag-sal-buscema","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-vulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12030,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions\/12030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}