{"id":1342,"date":"2019-08-12T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2024-03-01T01:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:13:32","slug":"asm-231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/08\/12\/asm-231\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 231"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This one\u2019s been with me for a long time\u2026 but where\u2019d it come from? I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s pretty beat up. Feels like it didn\u2019t come from a store. Like it was a garage sale or something. I dunno. But it turned out to be part of the Stern\/Romita puzzle I spent like 15 years assembling, so it was much appreciated. Still got Jim Mooney on inks and Bob Sharen on colors as The Cobra makes a pretty daring move and breaks into a police lock up. The guards on duty are paranoid because someone ripped off a different police evidence room recently\u2026 and they should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cobra\u2019s deal is he can squeeze into any space, and so he escapes down a drain pipe. The perfect crime. He slithers on home to his penthouse apartment (Which he got in an embezzlement scheme), satisfied with this easy scheme he\u2019s come up with. As he relaxes, he thinks about his old partner, Mr. Hyde, presumed dead after a battle in Captain America 252, and how glad he is to be rid of him. Meanwhile, Peter Parker has just finished sewing himself a 2nd Spider-Man suit. The team takes this opportunity to make a slight change to the suit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s been a long time since anyone drew Spidey with Ditko\u2019s underarm webs, at this point. Seems like once a decade, someone wants to bring them back. I always thought they were cool, too. Peter decides to go out and swing around in his new suit. He\u2019s having a good time as we briefly cut to a mysterious shadowy figure, prowling the city and seeking revenge on someone. Who could that be? Later on, Stern picks up a thread from his Spectacular run at The Daily Bugle, where JJJ is conferring with Marla Madison, and calls in Ned Leeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ned and Marla are set to go, but Ned stops off to see Betty first. She\u2019s worried he\u2019ll get in trouble, but he promises it\u2019s safe. Then he leaves, and she finds an address book that lets her know he\u2019s headed for a dangerous part of town, and starts fretting all over again. She wants someone to talk to, so she tries to catch Peter at ESU. She gets Deb Whitman, who reminds us she suspects he\u2019s Spider-Man now before transferring Betty to the lab Pete\u2019s working in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just then, Peter\u2019s lab partner, Roger Hochberg, declares their formula a success. We don\u2019t really find out what it is, but he calls it \u201cThe Parker-Hochberg Process\u201d and seems very excited. Work complete, Peter heads out to check up on Ned. He & Marla are just arriving at the bar they\u2019re going to meet his contact in (Ned says just be glad he didn\u2019t want to meet at Josie\u2019s, a reference to the rough bar that often pops up in Daredevil). Marla guesses the disheveled guy in a booth by himself is their man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things are going ok, except The Cobra walks in (wearing a fake beard!) to talk to the very same man Ned & Marla are talking to. And when he recognizes Ned as a reporter, he decides he\u2019s being sold out! Norton leads Ned & Marla outside to give them his tips, we see the mystery man from earlier is closing in on the same bar in search of his prey, then we see Spider-Man is almost to the bar, and THEN we see Cobra drop down on Norton, accusing him of ratting him out, so the stage is set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey leaps over and bats the gas pellets away from Ned & Marla, but that leaves the Cobra free to skitter around and try to escape. Spidey webs up the whole alley to trap him in there, but he says a Cobra is most deadly when it\u2019s cornered (He does realize he\u2019s not a real snake, right?). Spidey tries to taunt him by reminding him of their fight in TAC 46<\/a>, but Cobra goes silent and creepy. Then he feints like he\u2019s going to attack Marla and instead shoots his venom darts into Ned\u2019s gut. Spidey freaks out, thinking he\u2019s surely dead, but the darts went into Ned\u2019s tape recorder, so he\u2019s fine. While that was going on, Norton ran back inside, and Cobra has now followed to strangle him. But Spidey is there to tackle him back outside. As Cobra slithers away, Spidey manages to web his leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey takes the unconscious Cobra down to the street and tells Ned & Marla he\u2019s gonna take their attacker to the cops. Ned says they\u2019ll come to the precinct to give statements. As Spidey swings off, Cobra beings to wake up, but that\u2019s the least of Spidey\u2019s problems as a the whole corner of a building comes sailing past him. Spidey dodges out of the way and tries to land safely, but Cobra panicking makes him twist his ankle as he hits the roof below, still clinging to his foe. And then their attacker finally appears. Surely you figured out who it was\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh! This was my introduction to Cobra & Hyde. I thought it was weird that they were a team. They didn\u2019t seem to have much in common. And while I read this comic when I was just a kid, it was only last year that I found out these two started out as Thor villains, crazy as that seems, and wound up partners trying to beat him in the 60s. They fought Captain America more than once, too, especially Cobra as part of The Serpent Society. But I first saw them here, so I assumed they were Spider-Man villains. Just another example of the fun of as shared universe.
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This one\u2019s been with me for a long time\u2026 but where\u2019d it come from? I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s pretty beat up. Feels like it didn\u2019t come from a store. Like it was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[9,11,253,211,154,13,18,118,116,212,55,166,117,2],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-betty-brant","tag-bob-sharen","tag-cobra","tag-deb-whitman","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-jim-mooney","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-marla-madison","tag-mr-hyde","tag-ned-leeds","tag-roger-hochberg","tag-roger-stern","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","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=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30132,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/30132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}