{"id":16863,"date":"2023-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:42:25","slug":"web-024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/26\/web-024\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have absolutely no idea where I got a coverless copy of Web of Spider-Man 24. None. How could I have gotten then? When? Where? I guess I\u2019ll never remember. I wonder what the cover looks like. Looked it up, here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alrighty. This should be interesting, a Michelinie story with both The Vulture and Nathan in it. Will they know each other? Seems unlikely! Del Barras is in on pencils, Bob Sharen on colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will never understand why Michelinie had it in for Nathan. He was such a cool guy as portrayed by Stern. Feisty, loyal, smart, funny. Now he\u2019s \u201cthat old grouch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little warning about the ills of gambling from your friend, Peter Parker. He catches up with the others and suggest an ice cream and a walk on the boardwalk, but only May is interested. Then we shift our focus to casino owner Owen Briosky, playing tennis when The Vulture shows up. He\u2019s used his electrical know how to create remote controlled cheating dice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Vulture looks, like, half his age in this comic. He looks like Lex Luthor. Also, his wings aren\u2019t attached properly. I\u2019m not familiar with Del Barras, and I wonder how familiar he is with this character. Peter tries to ignore the broken window even as a chair falls out. He thinks he\u2019s going to quit being Spider-Man soon, anyway, he\u2019s got to get used to it. But then he sees someone being forced out the window, and can\u2019t stop himself from making a lame excuse and running off \u201cto the men\u2019s room.\u201d May thinks he\u2019 needs to learn to relax. Hey, why\u2019s he dressed like Saturday Night Fever, anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s right, it\u2019s the rrrrrather absurd technical 2nd appearance of Venom. I mean, this is pretty out of the way, and he just happened to be in that window? The subway attack was a lot more plausible. Anyway, Peter returns to May, saying it took so long because he wanted to go get his camera and get some pictures of their trip. Meanwhile, not too far away, The Vulture is talking up a storm to himself in the home of a recently deceased associate. He\u2019s talking about how he has to get a ton of money to pay for an extravagant funeral, and also to be illegally taxidermied, and also tha his preserved body should be displayed in a museum. He\u2019s really spitballing. He says he has to secure a \u201cnest-egg,\u201d and cracks himself up, which is a delightfully human little thing. Later that night, Peter & the gang are sitting through a magic act that he is not enjoying. But he probably won\u2019t have to worry about that too much longer\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back at the magic show, Peter\u2019s Spider Sense starts going off, and he decides the easiest way to slip away is to\u2026 volunteer to disappear in a magic act, and then actually disappear. That\u2019s a choice, alright. As Spider-Man swings into action, Vulture is terrorizing the casino floor and demanding to know where Briosky is. He found him pretty easily before\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They mix it up in the usual style, and Spider-Man winds up stuck to a wall holding a giant slot machine up so people can run to safety. He has to stand there and get clobbered to let the people get away, but as Vulture dives at his dazed foe, quite literally the last thing I expected happens: A pumpkin bomb is chucked into frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hobby almost never appears outside of ASM! And his story is about to be locked up tight over there, too! That is very surprising. Also, what on Earth is supposed to be happening in panel 1? But before Hobby can kill Spider-Man, Rose\u2019s right-and-left-hand men show up and tell him they need to go back to New York. So, Hobby settles for a few parting zaps and takes off. Spider-Man is tremendously confused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indeed. The end of this issue is setting up the big final Hobgoblin story in ASM, which started just a few weeks later. But… as we\u2019ve seen\u2026 This comic has been making it really, really hard for the others to happen at all, so it doesn\u2019t line up like that. In the letter column, they run an apology for forgetting the credits to Web 22, and run them here\u2026 but what about Web 20? I\u2019ve been noticing that Vince Colletta has a particular look for the black Spider-Man costume. Much like his women all tend to look like \u201cColletta women\u201d no matter who\u2019s drawing, I\u2019ve seen him ink several people\u2019s take on the black suit, and the way he does the black, and how much of it he doesn\u2019t spot at all, is very consistent. Inkers had a whole lot of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have absolutely no idea where I got a coverless copy of Web of Spider-Man 24. None. How could I have gotten then? When? Where? I guess I\u2019ll never remember. I wonder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[35,253,259,1072,403,1070,164,2,325,409,382,98,265],"class_list":["post-16863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-aunt-may","tag-bob-sharen","tag-david-michelinie","tag-del-barras","tag-joy-mercado","tag-len-kaminski","tag-nathan-lubensky","tag-spider-man","tag-the-rose","tag-venom","tag-vince-colletta","tag-vulture","tag-web-of-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863","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=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16876,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions\/16876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}