{"id":16821,"date":"2023-04-18T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16821"},"modified":"2022-01-16T00:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T04:15:45","slug":"web-021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/18\/web-021\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Uh\u2026 what? Are Joy & Peter not going to Ireland? Hm, maybe this is a fill-in. The creative team certainly suggests it. We got Larry Lieber hopping in to write and draw this month, with Vince Colletta inking and Bob Sharen on colors. I\u2019ve often wondered why Larry\u2019s profile didn\u2019t rise when Stan gave up control of Marvel. Larry has had some choice words to say about his brother\u2019s attitude toward him and his work over the years, and I\u2019m sure Larry\u2019s work at other companies (Particularly Atlas\/Seaboard) didn\u2019t help that relationship, but he\u2019s still an OG Marvel guy, co-creator of Iron Man and Thor, and the rare writer\/artist of his era. Seems like late 70s, early 80s, all the Marvel fans who inherited the company would\u2019ve thrown a million jobs at him. Maybe he didn\u2019t want them, I dunno. Anyway, Pete & Joy are going to Ireland, but this whole issue is a flashback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And with that, we\u2019re off to the unspecified-but-recent past, as a red & blue suited Spider-Man sees a mugging, but instead of stopping it, tells the goons to give him his cut at the end of the month and takes off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ol\u2019 suction cup gag. Like it\u2019s that easy to climb a brick wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So\u2026 was Peter just sick, like, the day before they left? All this continuity seems surprising in a story like this. The fake Spidey steals some jewels and hangs around to make sure the cops see him, and even drops a necklace to make sure they don\u2019t think he was chasing the real robber before climbing away. His buddy has some kinda rope gun he shoots to fake Spidey, who swings to another roof, changes to regular clothes, and leaves with his friend. Later, mayor Ed Koch worries that Spider-Man may be only the first costumed hero to go bad, and elsewhere, JJJ is crowing that he was right all along to Robbie, who, as usual, isn\u2019t so sure. And back at Chelsea St., Peter & MJ hear about all his alleged misdeeds on the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fake Spidey gang prepare their next stunt as the real Spidey swings away from a worried Mary Jane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s pretty funny. The cops make it up on the roof in record time, and our beleaguered hero can barely escape them. His cold seems to be messing with his Spider Sense. But he\u2019s still able to track the fake Spidey visually, and catches him changing in an alley with his buddy. He decided to follow them. He almost falls to his doom trying, but he follows them back to their apartment, and then\u2026 takes a nap, hoping he\u2019ll feel better and can get them in a little while, which is, again, pretty funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A flashback within a flashback! Spidey compares what happened to The Corbetts\u2019 dad to when Sin-Eater shot into a crowd during their fight in TAC 108<\/a>, and feels bad about it. But he knows this can\u2019t go on, and when he sees evidence of their next gag, he\u2019s even more certain. They\u2019re off to hijack a car of the Roosevelt Island Tram. Fake Spider-Man stops the car in mid-air and \u201ctakes a hostage,\u201d secretly his brother, forcing him up onto the roof of the tram as police helicopters arrive. He announces either the city gives him one million dollars in an hour, or he\u2019ll burn the cables holding up the tram with the blowtorch he brought and leave them all to die. Koch won\u2019t negotiate, JJJ hears about it and grabs a taxi, and Spidey himself is on his way when some cops spot him and start shooting. He manages to escape them and swings on over to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, then. All\u2019s well that ends sort-of-well. And we even end on a cliffhanger back in the present, which I\u2019ll be surprised if the next issue picks up on. But we\u2019ll see. For a fill-in, a fine job by Leiber and Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Uh\u2026 what? Are Joy & Peter not going to Ireland? Hm, maybe this is a fill-in. The creative team certainly suggests it. We got Larry Lieber hopping in to write and draw…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[253,13,26,403,726,21,2,382,265],"class_list":["post-16821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-bob-sharen","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-joe-robertson","tag-joy-mercado","tag-larry-leiber","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-spider-man","tag-vince-colletta","tag-web-of-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821","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=16821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16822,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions\/16822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}