{"id":18916,"date":"2023-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=18916"},"modified":"2022-05-07T22:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T02:49:51","slug":"tac-204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/11\/08\/tac-204\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 204"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wonder if Sal was like \u201cOh yeah, this guy. Been a long time.\u201d Tombstone was big business when Gerry Conway was around, and after he left, people started using him in other books, like Daredevil and Darkhawk and Moon Knight and Luke Cage, but at this point, it\u2019s been 3 years since he was in a Spider-Man title. And here he is! Steven Grant gets his own separate \u201cintroducing!\u201d credit box as he joins Sal and Bob Sharen for what will most likely be a shorter run than anticipated. Steven\u2019s only onboard until TAC 210, and I\u2019ve never read any of this run. But his take on Spidey was fun in SM 32<\/a>, 33<\/a> & 34<\/a>, so here\u2019s hoping for a good time. We open on Tombstone smashing open a door and yelling for Hammerhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A big opening move. Hammerhead is such a dopey villain, why not try to replace him? It could never stick, both of these guys are gonna keep turning back up, but why not? From there, we turn our attention to the office of a lawyer, where Peter & MJ, Liz, Normie and Mark Raxton, and Flash & Felicia are gathered to hear Harry Osborn\u2019s last will & testament. Now this not being done by JM DeMatteis feels wrong, but I guess that\u2019s just how it is. Instead of a paper document, we learn Harry\u2019s left behind a video tape. The lawyer puts it on, and Harry, clearly in his Green Goblin costume, says he must be dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is insanely risky behavior, Mr. Parker. That\u2019s ridiculous. Spider-Man is furiously swinging away, looking for a place he feels will be safe to open the box, thinking he\u2019s tired of being afraid of The Green Goblin, very much on par with the usual attitude in JM\u2019s Goblin stuff. He lands on a garbage scow and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is he? Seems unlikely. Back at what is now Tombstone\u2019s office, a rep from the local council of mob bosses (Is that a thing?) arrives to tell him his application for Hammerhead\u2019s seat has been rejected. Tomboy takes that as well as you\u2019d expect, smashing the guy around the room in Sal buscema fashion, demanding to know the names of the people opposing him. He\u2019s told it was just one guy, then has the messenger thrown out and tells his boys he\u2019s not going to fight the council, he\u2019s going to run it. Later that night, Spider-Man creeps through Liz\u2019s window, trying not to panic her, but telling her he thinks her husband is alive. Liz explodes into anger and frustration, understandably, rousing the attention of MJ from the other room, who yells at Spider-Man that this woman is in mourning and to get out. Spider-Man does, thinking he must be crazy. Liz collapses into MJ\u2019s arms, crying that she thought they were free, but it just won\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tombstone and his boys proceed to rob an illegal gambling den run by the guy who kept him off the council. Goons rush in to fight them, but Tombstone fights them pretty  much single-handedly until one appears with a grenade launcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He would, and the resulting explosion is so big Spider-Man sees it from far away and rushes over to see what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why on Earth is Flash there? I assume there will be some kind of reason. The letter page features people loving TAC 200, and 2 people asking for the return of Tombstone, who must\u2019ve been happy to get this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wonder if Sal was like \u201cOh yeah, this guy. Been a long time.\u201d Tombstone was big business when Gerry Conway was around, and after he left, people started using him in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[156,253,12,81,172,21,544,545,37,121,2,1037,280],"class_list":["post-18916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-black-cat","tag-bob-sharen","tag-flash-thompson","tag-hammerhead","tag-liz-allen","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-molten-man","tag-normie-osborn","tag-sal-buscema","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-steven-grant","tag-tombstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916","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=18916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18917,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916\/revisions\/18917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}