{"id":702,"date":"2020-02-15T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=702"},"modified":"2019-11-11T01:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:53:48","slug":"mtu-013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/02\/15\/mtu-013\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s another issue from the flea market. You can tell by the distinctive price tag. Len Wein, Gil Kane & Frank Giacoia on deck as we find Peter Parker back in New York, still very sad, understandably. His sadness has taken him walking to a wharf at night, blaming himself for Gwen\u2019s death, where a ludicrous drunken Irish stereotype breaks his reverie:
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No, sir, I do not remember him from MTU 2, not having read it, but this does not seem like a guy who\u2019d become a recurring character. Nathaniel waxes poetic about facing hurt, but Peter\u2019s not in the mood, and webs off outta there while his new friend isn\u2019t looking. Which is about to be real bad news for Nathaniel, as some sort of meteor suddenly plunges into the water near him, and a figure emerges from it.
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It\u2019s The Gray Gargoyle, whose deal is he turns anyone he touches to stone, so that\u2019s it for beloved recurring character Nathaniel The Drunk. Elsewhere, Peter Parker is suiting up as Spider-Man and just, like, yelling at bugs\u2026
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He heads out looking for trouble, and quickly finds it, in the form of several AIM  goons fleeing from someone. AIM (Advanced! Idea! Mechanics!) is a gang of science villains, your general death ray types. Spidey webs up the fleeing beekeepers and then heads back the way they came to find out what\u2019s going on. The unconscious goons really pile up outside a certain window, and Spidey thinks he\u2019s going where the action is as he leaps inside\u2026
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Between the two of them, Spidey and Cap make quick work of the remaining goons. When the fight\u2019s over, Cap radios for a SHIELD team to come retrieve them. Note Spider-Man\u2019s callous attitude:
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Hey! Where\u2019d they go? They\u2019ve been teleported aboard the SHIELD helicarrier. Is this Spider-Man\u2019s first time here? I\u2019m not sure. Certainly the oldest time here I\u2019ve read yet. It doesn\u2019t take him long before a random SHIELD agent tries to arrest him for his murder rap(s). Spidey\u2019s not into that, webbing the guy up and leaping up to the ceiling, getting ready to rock, but Nick Fury shows up and ends things before they get started.
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Wein\u2019s Nick Fury sounds rather more like a cowboy than usual. It turns out, there were 3 of these fancy machines, and AIM was after all of them. While Cap and SHIELD were protecting 2 of them, a 3rd was taken. It\u2019s being brought to Queens, so Fury wants Cap & Spidey to go get it back. Spider-Man is not interested, but Fury begins to talk him into it as we cut away to the AIM facility in Queens, where we learn that The Gray Gargoyle is hanging out, too. GG helpfully flashes back to his last defeat in Captain America 142, where he was shot into space in a rocket he was tricked into turning to stone (Would\u2026 would that even fly?). But he\u2019s a super genius in addition to a rock man, so he was able to rewire the communication systems and contact AIM to help him get down to Earth\u2026 by shooting his stone rocket with a death ray and making it fall back into orbit. That\u2019s one way to do it, I guess. Now they\u2019re going to use the fancy thingie they stole to \u201crule those jealous skies\u201d (Poetic!). Except, you know, this comic isn\u2019t called \u201cThe Adventures of Gray Gargoyle,\u201d so\u2026
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You\u2019d think two marquee heroes would be enough to beat one rather goofy villain, but you\u2019d be wrong!
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Uh-oh! The Gray Gargoyle launches into a real A+ supervillain speech, but when he\u2019s wrapping up, our heroes just\u2026 hop down.
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Wut? I have so many questions. Boy, those heroes are lucky they got weird stuff in their blood, huh? And what was Gargoyle\u2019s plan? That rocket seems to just be taking him \u201cinto space\u201d… you know, again\u2026 but surely just tossing a rocket at the void wasn\u2019t the original plan. Man, I\u2019m lost on this one. Come back next time as we rejoin the main plot in ASM.
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