{"id":1490,"date":"2019-08-29T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:24:12","slug":"asm-255","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/08\/29\/asm-255\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 255"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Red Ghost! The weird Fantastic Four villain with 3 superpowered ape assistants tangled with Spidey back in ASM 223, and he\u2019s back! Page one, returning penciler Ron Frenz borrows one of John Romita, Jr.\u2019s common Spidey poses\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That figure swings down to the building, sticks to the wall, turns off the security system, and produces a glass cutter to sneak in, commenting as he does about how beautiful the apartment is. Has Spidey gone bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In some ways, it\u2019s worse than that. The Black Fox has made a pretty substantial mistake, though, as the apartment he\u2019s chosen to rob is the home of The Red Ghost and his Super Apes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, an exhausted Peter Parker gets ready to go to bed. He\u2019s not been home long from his adventure with Starfox, and he\u2019s worn out. First, he does some laundry, including washing his new costume, pinning it up on a clothesline and everything (I mean, that has to be weird for it, in retrospect, right?). Then he tries to make a sandwich, but his bread is moldy (What do you know, Spider-Man really is just like me!). So he just gives up and, thinking he really should be out looking for Jack O\u2019Lantern and The Hobgoblin\u2019s Battlevan, crawls into bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh! Back that the fancy apartment, The Red Ghost pours Black Fox some Brandy, hoping it will help him calm down, and introduces himself. Somehow, Black Fox has to be told this is The Red Ghost and His Super Apes, and then he\u2019s even more scared because he\u2019s heard of them. I mean\u2026 it\u2019s a dude and some super apes. Get it together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\u2026 Cosmicizer. Not too good at naming stuff, this guy. He needs some more parts to finish it, and says he dares not leave the house until it\u2019s done for fear of his many enemies. So Black Fox and The Super Apes are going to go steal the parts\u2026 or the apes will kill him. Back at Peter Parker\u2019s place, he\u2019s roused from his slumber by someone banging on the front door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh! He does try to call Aunt May, but Nathan answers, tells him he had his chance and he blew it, and hangs up. Harsh. Even Peter realizes he messed up, so he\u2019s not mad at Nathan. With little else to do, he suits up and gets out there, wondering why he doesn\u2019t feel rested at all in spite of sleeping all day. He wonders what Black Cat is doing tonight, and then gets down to the business of looking for Jack O\u2019Lantern. But, at that moment, The Black Fox and His Super Apes are on the job\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things go bad pretty fast, as the big one rips the door off the place, setting off an alarm. They proceed with the mission, mostly because the Apes refuse to run, and when the cops show, the one with magnetic powers just destroys their car. Black fox talks him out of killing them, but he\u2019s had enough. He sets off a flash grenade and makes a break for it. Not far away, Spider-Man sees a couple of police cars tearing down the street and decides to follow. Back at the crime scene, the fleeing Black Fox is stopped by The Super Apes, and soon enough\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Apes remember Spider-Man from last time, and just flee. That\u2019s nice of them. Spidey tries to get some info out of The Black Fox, but he tries to run from Spider-Man, too. If he couldn\u2019t lose a bunch of apes, how did he think he\u2019d lose Spidey? Spider-Man demands answers, and when he gets them, he swings off, leaving a terrified Black Fox who hasn\u2019t opened his eyes to notice yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hang on, why were they stealing jewels? I thought they were after \u201cCosmicizer\u201d parts. We\u2019ll have to see what his unfinished business was in a second, because first we follow the Apes back to Red Ghost\u2019s house. He\u2019s very upset that they don\u2019t have Black Fox with them, and even more upset when it turns out we\u2019re not the only ones who followed the Apes home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey eventually maneuvers the gorilla into accidentally smashing \u201cThe Cosmicizer,\u201d ruining The Red Ghost\u2019s plans, and right about then, the cops show up. Someone called in a tip to them that he was here. Now, who could that have been? Red Ghost escapes as usual, swearing revenge. Spidey wonders how this night could get any worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019d do it. In spite of Black Fox getting away clean, this is not the last time we\u2019ll see him trying to pull off \u201cone last score\u201d to retire on. It\u2019s literally his only plot, which makes the amount of times he appears over the ensuing years pretty annoying, really. Unrelated: That drawing I said would be used extensively in advertising back in ASM 253 is already in this issue accompanying an ad. They didn\u2019t waste time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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