{"id":19838,"date":"2024-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=19838"},"modified":"2022-07-06T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T01:06:33","slug":"asm-031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/01\/23\/asm-031\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 031"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Getting a hold of this one was a real challenge. When I finally found a copy I could afford, it was this UK edition (somehow). The only difference is the currency in the corner box, so that\u2019s fine with me! Look, it\u2019s got a coffee ring on the cover. I didn\u2019t notice before now. Classy. Last issue<\/a> (Covered some 5 years ago!), Spidey fought some guys with magnet shoes in the beginning of the issue that didn\u2019t end up being part of the plot. And here they are on the cover of this one. Ditko\u2019s gone wild and added running plot elements to the series! And for that, he\u2019s punished by losing his plot credit this month, I guess, \u2018cuz it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These guys are making me feel vindicated about something really dumb and obscure, but I can\u2019t talk about it yet. Guess they get their gas from the same store as Crime-Master. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey outwits his archnemesis, gas. The Master Planner! I think who that is has been spoiled on the blog, more than once, but I\u2019m gonna act like it hasn\u2019t. Back in the chopper, all the goons are just flooding the space with gas, assuming Spidey can\u2019t hold his breath forever, and he can\u2019t. So he webs a piece of the door he broke and chucks it into the rotors. That\u2019ll change a goon\u2019s perspective. The chopper goes into the drink, but since Spidey doesn\u2019t know The Master Planner has a secret underwater base yet, he\u2019s really puzzled when no one surfaces from the crash. He swims down to save them, only to find the chopper empty. The Master Planner, speaking from inside long shots of his base, says he didn\u2019t expect Spider-Man and no one must know who he really is and I\u2019m certain this came up just recently. A lot of secret identity villains lately. Green Goblin, Crime-Master, Master Planner. Anyway\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But later, as Peter\u2019s getting ready to go to bed, May collapses. Dr. Bromwell comes to help, but doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong, so Aunt May is taken to the hospital. She responds well to medication, but is still very weak, and all she\u2019s worried about is how Peter should be in bed for his first day of school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A rough start with the new gang! Including Mr. No Name Zero Shirt Man. Harry decides they should play a prank on him, because \u201cme and Flash Thompson both hate squares!\u201d Gwen is against it. We\u2019re right back where we were in high school. Peter\u2019s doing an experiment, but so wrapped up in worrying about May he barely notices Gwen being sent to distract him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They have no idea what\u2019s wrong with Aunt May, and have to keep her for tests. Her doctor tells Peter at her age, \u201cwe just can\u2019t be too optimistic,\u201d and also that he can\u2019t let her know how bad it is. Jeez, doc! Then he goes home and finds a mailbox full of bills. Classic Peter Parker stuff. So, he feels he has no choice but to try to go make some news. But true to his luck, he\u2019s out all night and comes up empty. And then he has to go to school on no sleep. He once again ignores everyone, Gwen still sticking up for him. Meanwhile, at The Daily Bugle, JJJ\u2019s demanding everyone find some news. He wants Foswell to look into all these scientific robberies by the purple goons, and wants to know why Peter hasn\u2019t been in lately. Betty doesn\u2019t know, either. Ned comes by to see if she\u2019ll say yes to his marriage proposal, but she thinks she can\u2019t until she finds out what secret Peter keeps from her. Soon, Foswell, in his goofy guise as \u201cPatch,\u201d overhears a goon he knows asking what\u2019s coming into the docks tonight, and being told \u201cnuclear devices,\u201d and knows something is up. And then, back at school, Gwen Stacy tries her best to talk to Peter Parker, who once again brushes her off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so, Spider-Man is on the scene when the purple patrol comes up out of the water and gasses some guys. Spidey is quickly gassed himself, but he\u2019s prepared and dives through the cloud, punching out goons as he goes. And he leaps around taking out goons, one of them maneuvers a huge cargo net over him and drops it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a dense issue! So much going on, so many subplots, new characters, and still 2 fight scenes! They don\u2019t make \u2018em like that anymore, altho in this case, that\u2019s maybe for the best. Perhaps a little overcrowded this month. Things heat up next month as we run headlong toward one of the most famous issues of Spider-Man ever. Dapper Don McGregor gets another letter in the back of this issue. He was not the first correspondent to be very taken with the title \u201cBring Back My Goblin To Me.\u201d Very popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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