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Which one will fall? I mean, we can assume it\u2019s The Grizzly, but let\u2019s find out. We pick up where we left off, as The Grizzly carries Peter Parker (in a bear hug. No, really) down a hall behind the bounding Jackal\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter unconsciously remembers the events of last issue in case you missed it, and then wakes up with Betty Brant & Ned Leeds looking over him in the lobby of The Daily Bugle building. He claims he doesn\u2019t remember how he got there as they take him to the coffee shop across the street, and Betty says they were afraid he\u2019d been hurt. Peter begins to remember what happened to him, and rushes to the bathroom to see what\u2019s up with the weird feeling on his arm. It\u2019s not good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s a lot of hardware for a tracking device, 1974 or not. Peter somehow holds miles of web in smaller gadgets. Why is this happening? We know, due to the out-of-order nature of this blog, The Jackal knows full well who Spider-Man is. What is this meant to accomplish? Anyway…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, hey, it\u2019s Glory Grant! I didn\u2019t know she started out as Peter\u2019s neighbor. In the oft-referenced Comic Creators on Spider-Man, Gerry Conway says a lot of the time he was just throwing stuff at a wall, and sometimes it didn’t go anywhere. Glory was a potential new love interest, but it never went that far. Anyway, Flash offers to give Pete a lift to ESU, but Peter says he has some \u201cheavy thinking\u201d to do. At midnight, we find our hero in the lab at ESU, working on getting this dumb thing off his arm. He hits it with a blowtorch to short it out, hoping the Jackal was buffing, and is able to get it off without exploding. That\u2019s lucky. Soon enough, Spider-Man is back in the air. He heads right to The Bugle, hoping to get some info about The Grizzly in spite of it being super late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gerry Conway\u2019s Spidey is too mean to JJJ. It\u2019s supposed to be more of a playful rivalry, especially since one of them can pop the other\u2019s head off. Feels like he\u2019s being a jerk. Anyway, JJJ offers that, eleven years ago, he saw one Maxwell Markham, who wrestled as The Grizzly (No wacky bear suit), and was appalled by \u201chis violence.\u201d JJJ must not see much wrestling. He ran a bunch of \u201cThe Grizzly: Menace or Threat?\u201d editorials demanding an investigation (The man has one interest!), and that time, it actually worked. \u201cThe Wrestling Commission\u201d \u201crevoked his license\u201d (Is that a thing???), and then JJJ literally blew smoke in his face on his way out of \u201cthe hearing\u201d (There\u2019s no way this is a thing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhy did I throw my shoe?\u201d has just become one of my favorite JJJ moments of all time. Spidey breaks into The Jackal\u2019s former hideout, but he\u2019s all moved out. So, using his ace detective skills, Spidey goes to literally the first gym he finds with a light on inside, and somehow, this pays off. A guy inside remembers Max, and says he used to work out at Halberstam’s Gym. He then says he thought Spider-Man was “The Masked Marvel.” Here\u2019s the thing about that, from Amazing Fantasy 15:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicely done, Mr. Conway. Meanwhile, at the gym that guy mentioned, The Grizzly has just busted in to start slapping people around, calling people creeps and punks as often as possible, as is his way. He wants to beat up some dudes who didn\u2019t lie to help him 11 years ago (And they\u2019re still in this gym??), but Spidey\u2019s here to help. By webbing off all Grizzly\u2019s clothes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey gets the bear suit ripped up, revealing Max Markham has actually let himself go over the years, and stripped of his power suit, he\u2019s not much in the way of a fighter anymore, so Spidey\u2019s able to wrap things up pretty quickly. Literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man is so mean! That\u2019s it for the first outing of The Grizzly. You\u2019d think that would be the last, too, but even a character this goofy can come back. Next issue, things should start to get weird, but we got another Giant-Size to check out first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This issue includes letters responding to the editors asking whether or not Peter should keep aging in real time or if they should slow down. The first steps toward Marvel\u2019s sliding time rule, I guess. This letter in particular caught my eye:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaaaaalright. Probably not gonna happen, Lawgiver. Ape shall not kill ape! And guess what? Marvel Value Stamp intact!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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