{"id":15420,"date":"2022-12-05T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=15420"},"modified":"2021-08-28T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T00:53:40","slug":"sm-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/12\/05\/sm-19\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hulk! This issue starts a bit of controversy, believe it or not. Larsen credits the others as \u201cLetter Artist\u201d and \u201cColor Artist\u201d this month, a fine choice of words that should be far more common. So, Spider-Man knows he and\/or The Sinister Six are being watched, Ock tells his former cohorts to join him or die and begins whupping them for choosing \u201cdie,\u201d and Sandman says Ock is going to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can\u2019t trust supervillains, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey\u2019s doing his best as usual, but then Hobgoblin hits him with his true archenemy. And not just any gas, the original Hobgoblin\u2019s formula that knocks out our hero\u2019s danger sense! Uh-oh, The tide starts to turn, and Spidey tags Hobby with a tracer and decides to beat a retreat. Very quippy. This is the time when Hulk and Banner merged, becoming a Hulk with Banner\u2019s intelligence and personality who never changed back to human. Have we seen this version already? Who can recall? He\u2019s also currently working with a group called \u201cThe Pantheon,\u201d and while he chooses not to tell Spider-Man, their precog has foreseen Ock taking over the world and sent Hulk to stop him. Hulk seems to be turning the tide for Spidey, but no Spider Sense means\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hulk takes down Hobgoblin and is trying to sneak up on Ock and save Spider-Man when Electro fires a blast that casts Hulk\u2019s big shadow on Ock, derailing his plans. Ock tosses Spider-Man through a wall (Way through a wall, off into the harbor), while grabbing Hulk by the throat. Hulk expects this to be the usual supervillain business, making jokes about Ock telling him his plans, and Ock proceeds to just beat the hell out of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Electro is a fink! The whole thing\u2019s rigged. So, by this point, Peter David is well into his 10-year run on Hulk. And he does not take kindly to his guy being totally destroyed by Doc Ock at all when this comes out. Larsen had Hulk basically take down the rest of the Sinister Six without even paying attention, and even went so far as to have Ock explain in detail why Hulk can\u2019t fight back, in what seems to me to be an effort to show he\u2019s not just being jobbed out here. But David wasn\u2019t having it. He will get Ock into the Hulk comic relatively soon so he can restage more or less the same fight and have Hulk demolish Doc Ock. It\u2019s pretty petty, but petty seems to be a big part of David\u2019s repertoire. At any rate, this was a short installment, that\u2019s because Erik Larsen\u2019s house burned down in the great Oakland fire of 1991. He lost everything, but was luckily unharmed. So they decided he would do what was to be the 2nd chapter of this story in 2 half-issues, while backups were created for the back halves to give him a breather. These days, either production would halt entirely and the books would just be late or a different artist would be brought in, but back then, the trains had to arrive on time. Thus, the rest of this issue is part one of a 2-parter by Terry Kavanaugh, Scott McDaniel, Kieth Williams & Renee Witterstaetter. And it begins with Peter taking MJ\u2019s photo with a pretty bizarre backdrop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those are some pretty weird \u201creligious icons.\u201d I think one of them might be Ultraman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey cuts in between the guy and his bride playing jealous, but really trying to find the source of his danger sense, and can\u2019t. As they leave, the statue half in a crate develops more organic eyes and watches them go. This is, of course, all leading up to oddball classic Fantastic Four villain Diablo, but I confess, I don\u2019t remember it. Has he been on the blog? Man, I feel like he has, and yet he has not. I guess it\u2019s easy to get confused. Later that night, Spider-Man returns to the museum to investigate. His Spider Sense is going off even before he gets inside, which is accomplished with a surprisingly long sequence of him almost smashing a window, seeing it\u2019s alarmed, heading to the roof, climbing into the ventilation system, ending up in the lady\u2019s bathroom, and then almost getting caught by security guards. 4 pages of not much actually happening is weird, but perhaps a function of this being a rush job. On a 5th page, he eventually gets back to the hall just in time to see the statue from before smash out of its crate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Larsen\u2019s break is far cleaner than this one when his was a response to unexpected misfortune and this one was planned is beyond me. That\u2019s really awkward. But we\u2019ll see the end of this along with more Sinister Six next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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