{"id":6682,"date":"2019-04-23T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2019-10-17T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:00:35","slug":"mtu-009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/04\/23\/mtu-009\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That is\u2026 some cover copy. Musical chairs continues as Ross Andru returns to the penciling job and Gil Kane shuffles off to more ASM. He\u2019s not inked by his pal Mike Esposito, but rather one Frank Bolle, a name unfamiliar to me. Things are shakin\u2019 right on page one as some kinda localized earthquake is rocking Avengers Mansion. As people on the surrounding streets jostle all over the place, one particularly annoyed cop pulls his gun and decides to march in there and find out what\u2019s going on. 
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There he is. As IM tells the cop he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on and heads to investigate, Andru\u2019s Iron Man is really taking its cues from Gene Colan. Meanwhile, Peter Parker sees this happening on TV. While this issue came out the same month as ASM 120, we\u2019re explicitly told this happens before 119. Anyway, Peter explicitly decides not to go help, for some reason, but\u2026
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He\u2019s WHAT?? Good gravy, that bit of slang didn\u2019t age well! Also, this is not the first time Gerry Conway will have Peter Parker talk about his love of baths, which is odd. At any rate, Spidey goes to the mansion. Iron Man is not happy to see him, because it seems like no one ever is in this book, but when an opening suddenly appears in the field around the mansion, both heroes dive in.
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They\u2019ve fallen into a Steve Ditko dimension! And they\u2019re atop some kind of floating platform as the two space ships dogfight above them. When one of the ships destroys the other, Iron Man flies up to engage, assuming they\u2019re next, but he\u2019s caught in a force field. He tells Spider-Man to run. 
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Ross Andru will pretty soon begin a long run on ASM, but his earlier Spidey here in MTU looks remarkably different. Zarrko explains his deal, and I\u2019d rather show than tell, frankly\u2026
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Ok, we\u2019re all caught up, I suppose. Zarrko says he\u2019d hoped to bring The Avengers to his time to fight the invaders, but his still-unnamed enemy got to them first. Spidey & IM leap out of the ship and start fighting the purple suited goons. There\u2019s a whole lot of them, though, and they\u2019re everywhere. The heroes dispatch a small army of goons before breaking into the big fortress. They\u2019re not inside long before still more goons attack them on flying bikes, but those just fly right into Spider-Man\u2019s web.
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That big ol\u2019 arm belongs to a giant robot that seems to be disgusted by the idea of organic matter. Spidey starts flipping around to buy the badly damaged Iron Man some time to recover.
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Take that, Billy Graham! As the heroes soldier on inside, outside, Zarrko lands his ship, elated by the idea of taking over the invaders\u2019 stronghold and using it to conquer the world (What, you thought he was a good guy?). Spidey & IM find the other Avengers (At this time, Captain America, Thor, Quicksilver Vision, Scarlet Witch, and Black Panther, who are joined by faithful butler Jarvis in some kind of glass prisons.
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Kang! The time traveling warlord and my personal favorite Avengers villain means big trouble whether Spidey knows it or not.
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Things are looking grim! But my biggest question is how The Human Torch gets involved next issue. We\u2019ll find out next post.
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