{"id":12092,"date":"2022-02-21T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2020-12-16T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:40:52","slug":"asm-170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/02\/21\/asm-170\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 170"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A previous owner rated this one a 6.0 on the backing board. We\u2019ll see about that! (I have no grading experience). That\u2019s sure a Ross Andru cover. A lot of Romite covers or Romita-inked covers that might as well be Romita covers in this run, but that\u2019s definitely Ross. Frank Giacoia helps Mike Esposito with inks this month, and Spidey has just met Dr. Faustus. Spider-Man has heard about his last scheme in Captain America, and that he died, so he has to explain how he didn\u2019t. Kinda miss that in comics. Now characters show up not dead and no one cares to explain it. Anyway, he fell out of a plane, but he had a parachute under his jacket, joke\u2019s on you, Cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Didn\u2019t waste any time this issue, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Faustus\u2019 budget Mysterio bit is working, and Spidey is so disoriented he lets Faustus lead him off to another location. But we cut away to MJ & Liz shopping for Liz\u2019s wedding dress. Liz holds a prospect up in front of MJ, saying she thinks it looks better on her, and MJ wonders what Peter would say if her saw her in it before getting flustered when the shopkeep asks if they need help. Interesting moment. Back at the crime scene, Faustus quietly assures his goons the \u201cnarcotic smoke\u201d from his cigarette has Spider-Man under his power (How is Faustus not high, then? And they\u2019ve just casually dosed Spidey with something highly addictive?). He\u2019s right, tho. His goons finish digging the hole with their laser cannon, and Spidey is instructed to lead them into \u201cthe enemy\u2019s secret laboratory,\u201d which he\u2019s happy to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good looking page. Great panel variety and storytelling. The strobes make one of the goons trip the \u201cstun-beams,\u201d and it\u2019s all going pear-shaped until Spidey leaps through the corridor and deactivates everything. Soon, they\u2019re in a \u201chermetically sealed chamber\u201d with \u201cthe means to world domination\u201d inside. Sounds bad! But we cut away to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that\u2019s the beginning of the long, long simmering plot that won\u2019t pay off til ASM 200<\/a> with the burglar coming back. I have to assume Len told his old buddy Marv Wolfman his plans for this when he took over. I wonder if he changed it at all. But what\u2019s Faustus up to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What now? Antelope Flu??? I can find no record of this in a quick internet search. Ok, man! And how\u2019s he gonna poison the whole of a vaccine supply meant for the entire world with that one tiny vial? We\u2019ll never know, because as he goes on about becoming master of the world, Spidey slowly snaps out of it and steals the vial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then Faustus wades into the mix. I did not take him for a physical fighter. He gets in one page of Kingpin-esque action before Spidey gets the upper hand on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s that. Not the most bombastic ending, but an ending nonetheless. We\u2019ve already seen the next batch of issues in a previous block, so the next time we check in with this era, we\u2019ll jump ahead to ASM 176 to finish off Len\u2019s run. But for now, our next post jumps to the beginning of the end of Marv Wolfman\u2019s time on the title with ASM 201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A previous owner rated this one a 6.0 on the backing board. We\u2019ll see about that! (I have no grading experience). That\u2019s sure a Ross Andru cover. A lot of Romite covers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9,839,41,13,91,172,116,21,52,74,2,798],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1970s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-dr-faustus","tag-frank-giacoia","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-len-wein","tag-liz-allen","tag-marla-madison","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-mike-esposito","tag-ross-andru","tag-spider-man","tag-the-burglar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","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=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12104,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions\/12104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}