{"id":20162,"date":"2024-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20162"},"modified":"2022-07-22T23:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T03:16:04","slug":"sm-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/02\/20\/sm-42\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Through means I no longer recall, I didn\u2019t buy this storyline as a kid, but I DID wind up with TWO copies of this issue. How? Why? Incredible. This is the one I kept. Color credit goes to Tinsley\/Moran this month. Not sure who the Moran is. An opening splash recaps last issue, and then a 2-page splash shows Platoon blasting the heroes with\u2026 a laser or something, I dunno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice glasses. Back at Rand, the ceiling collapses on our heroes just as they\u2019re waking up. They punch up out of more rubble and then head out onto the street, where Platoon has left a trail of destruction. With time of the essence, Spidey\u2019s about to leave Danny behind so he can swing after their foe, but IF taps a button on his belt and a motorcycle smashes through a window for him to ride. Really. So they head off toward the bridge, and Jae gets in another pinup page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing about this page makes any sense, least of all Platoon talking about they \u201cherded him up there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBride of Frankenstein, Channel 4 News.\u201d Spidey saves the guy, somehow spotting Kate Cushing in the crowd below while he does, then swinging back up. Iron Fist, having failed to do anything, is now up there, too, sans motorcycle. Quick cut to the ARMS board saying this has to be the public debut of their battle suit whether they like it or not (If it was made at Rand, how is it theirs? How is any of this anything?). Platoon shoots some off-brand Batarangs at Spider-Man and a heat seeking missile at Iron Fist. Really underestimating our friendly neighborhood guy, seems like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Platoon fires lil rockets out of his back to just stand back up, Spidey quietly webs the civilians down to solid ground. Platoon shoots IF off the bridge, and whaddaya know, Spidey runs out of webbing, so he leaps off, grabbing Danny by the wrist and sticking to the wall. Then Platoon unleashes \u201cacid rain\u201d on them. But the heroes go under the bridge, taking a sec for Spidey to reload, and then swoop up behind their generic foe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heroes punch their disable foe into the drink, oddly unconcerned about, like, killing him, but there\u2019s one issue of this left, so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, Platoon was only a one-man army for this issue, huh? One more issue of this nonsense\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through means I no longer recall, I didn\u2019t buy this storyline as a kid, but I DID wind up with TWO copies of this issue. How? Why? Incredible. This is the one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[625,1721,418,2,423],"class_list":["post-20162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-iron-fist","tag-jae-lee","tag-kevin-tinsley","tag-spider-man","tag-terry-kavanagh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162","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=20162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20163,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions\/20163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}