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Kicking thing off with a weird cover and a weirder splash page:
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Yes, the Giant Ghost of Spider-Man is warning Peter he\u2019s gonna have a rough day! Alright, then, here we go. The District Attorney has called a meeting of the press to unveil the previously mentioned computer that will \u201ccatalog all worldwide habitual offenders.\u201d So a database, then. Y\u2019all built an entire fancy computer and one man has already died to make\u2026 a database. But when he takes them to the computer room, the other scientist, Dr. Armstrong Smith (Excellent name), won\u2019t answer. A cop shoots the lock, and\u2026
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I feel like maybe they weren\u2019t just putting corpses on the front of the paper back then, or even now, but what do I know? Robbie says Smith was killed in a locked room by a bullet to the head, but they couldn\u2019t find a bullet or a gun. Peter figures it\u2019s time for Spider-Man to look into this. He breaks into the police station, complaining that the cops are afraid to disturb the crime scene as he barges right in, then he has the computer\u2026 produce a list of the men most likely to have done this. I am really dubious of this machine. He gets results:
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More excellent names! It\u2019s some cops, of course, who don\u2019t like finding a wanted fugitive in their crime scene, but Spidey handily evades them and sets out to find the 3 guys the computer accuses of this murder. His first stop is an informant he knows named \u201cWeasel.\u201d No, really\u2026
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When Spidey\u2019s web dissolves, that man is going to fall 3 stories. That\u2019s not very heroic. Also, that seems to be the homeless dude who\u2019s appeared in recent issues leaning on that lamppost. Spidey enters the bar and starts roughing people up like this is a Daredevil comic, but once he finally gets someone to tell him where Jason Sledge is, well\u2026
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That computer really knows its stuff. As he swings to his next destination, Spidey exposits that Leroy Tallon is a master safe-cracker who got caught in a blast awhile back, but could be back in the game. Tallon is meeting with his gang in an abandoned warehouse when Spidey busts in.
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Sweet Mama! These guys aren\u2019t too interested in answering questions, and when one goon drops a big crate on Spidey from above, it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. Spidey does as well as you\u2019d expect with Tallon\u2019s boys, but then\u2026
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That was a poor choice by that doctor-dude. Tallon starts choking the life out of Spidey, but he gets punched in the head for his trouble, and goes spilling into a crate\u2026
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Strike two! Spidey spends hours looking for Conrad Fox, talking to people, swinging around, looking in a phone book (hilarious), until he finds the truth:
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I mean\u2026 was it the computer? Oh my God, it was the computer.
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I\u2019m\u2026 speechless.
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IBM-becile. Loonivac. Wein is out of control. The computer keeps trying to zap Spidey while claiming that, as a \u201cperfect compendium of the criminal craft,\u201d it will become the undisputed ruler of the underworld (From a room in a police station in the age before the internet??????), but Spider-Man webs up the cooling vents on the computer, so eventually\u2026
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That last panel was too much. This was absurd. How has Len Wein never heard of a database? That\u2019s what I come away really wondering. This is not a far-future computer concept. Sheesh! What nonsense. Still no answer on the mysterious homeless guy. But next issue, it\u2019s the long-awaited wedding of Betty Brant and Ned Leeds, and the debut of the villain Mirage.
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