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\u2018Ello, guvnah! Looks like we\u2019re off to Jolly Old England this time! The tape on the back of this comic back was packing tape. That\u2019s a lot to get up when opening it. This one\u2019s torn from today\u2019s headlines, is it? Let\u2019s see what that means. We begin with Spider-Man swinging around, all broken up about losing Gwen and not sure how he could talk to her even if she were still around. He decides the only thing for it is to go to London and find her. But this is Peter Parker, he doesn\u2019t have travel money. He probably doesn\u2019t have $5. And he\u2019s not been selling pictures for awhile, his life\u2019s been too crazy. He finds himself at The Daily Bugle as Peter, thinking of asking for an advance, knowing Jonah would never give it to him. But Joe sees him Charlie Brown-walking down the hallway\u2026<\/p>\n

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MJ\u2019s never been one for subtlety. Especially not in that outfit, good grief, she\u2019s a feather away from being a racist Halloween costume. The outfit is apparently for a show she has coming up. Aunt May\u2019s been helping her out\u2026 somehow\u2026 but Peter has no time for small talk. He lets Aunt May know he\u2019s going to London to find Gwen, then he\u2019s off. MJ downplays every hint of genuine emotion, as usual. Harry Osborn drives our man to the airport, and then he\u2019s off. On the plane, he thinks back to George Stacy\u2019s last words to him and frets in true Peter Parker fashion.<\/p>\n

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Well, if we\u2019ve taken the time to meet a degalate to peace talks, I suspect things are about to go left for our hero. And as soon as the plane lands, they do just that. The passengers are informed that a bomb has been placed under the landing ramp, and the whole plane\u2019s being held hostage.<\/p>\n

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Take that, plane! Spidey gets down to the business of un-bombing the landing ramp as the terrorists spot him from their vantage inside the airport. Spidey kicks the whole ramp as hard as he can, making it fly off and explode harmlessly. With that done, the emergency slides deploy and the passengers escape. But, of course, not all of them. The delegate & his son from earlier get kidnapped off the tarmac. Spider-Man takes off in pursuit of the car they were thrown in, goons shooting machine guns at him as he swings.<\/p>\n

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Spidey\u2019s doing ok up there, but then a guy opens the car\u2019s sunroof and starts shooting. Spidey flips away, and the terrorists think they shot him. He knows he can find them now that his tracer\u2019s on the car, but his more immediate concern is the cops running up to him\u2026<\/p>\n

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Spidey gets short with the cops, eager to find the terrorists so he can get on with his real mission in London, and ends up not leaving on the best terms. Classic Spider-Man\/police interaction. He just swings around London, hoping to get a ping from his tracer. But as he\u2019s swinging around, while he doesn\u2019t find the terrorists, he accidentally swings by the window of a certain young lady from the States\u2026<\/p>\n

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Rough stuff. How can Pete think he\u2019ll ever make this right? Also Gwen’s Uncle Arthur is weird looking. He looks like some one with a much more cartoony style drew him. Elsewhere, Spidey finally spots the car, and its drivers spot him, too, and they\u2019re so distracted they crash into the railing of a bridge. That\u2019s a pretty nice opening for Spidey.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the hostages aren\u2019t actually in the car anymore. Spidey threatens one of the goons, but he\u2019s told that unless the British government releases some other terrorists, thee guys will blow up the hostages at 7pm.<\/p>\n

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Spidey once more swings all over London, desperate, until he remembers the goon saying their fate is sealed by time itself. He plays the long shot, heading for Big Ben, and it\u2019s a superhero comic, so of course that\u2019s where they are.<\/p>\n

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Spidey brings the hostages down to the waiting cops. The inspector says there\u2019s no way the guys the terrorists were trying to free will get pardoned now, and then the delegate guy gets weirdly poetic about Spider-Man\u2026<\/p>\n

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Good luck explaining it to everyone back home, but a reasonable thought. Or is it?<\/p>\n

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Ah, starcrossed lovers. How sad. Wait, when Peter found out Gwen went to London, he was swinging to her house to admit he was Spider-Man. Now he\u2019s in London and can\u2019t see her because Spider-Man was here? Wut? Ah, well. And, I just wanna say again: Arthur. Right? He looks like a Scooby Doo villain before the mask comes off. I’m not getting this. Next month: The Green Goblin! That can\u2019t be good for anybody. Come back next time for A Very Special Issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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