{"id":7286,"date":"2020-11-24T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2020-01-04T20:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:48:21","slug":"asm-175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/11\/24\/asm-175\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 175"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This looks pretty silly. Jim Mooney inks this one solo. As it opens, Punisher is just shooting at the escaping chopper, JJJ be damned, I guess.
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\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to shoot him! I was just going to cause the vehicle he\u2019s in to explode and\/or crash to the street below us! Duh!\u201d How did the rent-a-cops sneak up on them like that? Dude is grabbing Spidey like this is a vampire movie. They take down the guards, but then more show up, so Spidey shoots 2 webs and they swing away. This seems\u2026 short sighted. What\u2019s Frank gonna do at the end of his webline? Oh, well. Having seen our heroes to safety, we head downstairs to the weirdly smiley situation in the Bugle\u2026
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I guess maybe Robbie has a point. JJJ gets kidnapped all the time, why worry? Elsewhere, it\u2019s Punisher War Journal Entry 416 as Spidey and Frank zoom around in The Punisher\u2019s Battlevan while Spiey homes in on his tracker. As they search, Frank casually mentions he owes The Hitman his life. Spidey\u2019s pretty surprised by that, so Frank explains they were in Vietnam together, and one Lt. Burt Kenyon saved Frank after he was caught in an explosion. He says he\u2019s \u201clong suspected\u201d Kenyon was The Hitman (For some reason?) but now he\u2019s sure. Isn\u2019t that cute? Good Punisher and Evil Punisher are old pals! His story is interrupted by Spider-Man getting a ping on his tracer, in the underbrush outside a farmhouse (They were still in the city when Frank\u2019s story started! Where are they?), so they go to investigate. But also\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that can\u2019t be good! But that\u2019s a future problem, we\u2019re back at that farmhouse, where Spidey and Punisher take out 2 goons and start getting some info out of them. Meanwhile, their boss has JJJ\u2026 Under the Brooklyn Bridge in a boat? Where is that farmhouse??
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So they are gonna kill JJJ? And they had to kidnap him first\u2026 why? This whole business seems undercooked. They\u2019ve taken JJJ to the Statue of Liberty, where they gas some guards and get to work. The PLF is going to blow up the statue, with Jameson inside. Which\u2026 seems like it\u2019d be really hard to identify what\u2019s left of him, and their message wouldn\u2019t really be sent, but\u2026 whatever, it doesn\u2019t matter, because Punisher and Spider-Man show up in Hitman\u2019s dumb helicopter. Punny opens fire on the bad guys, with Spider-Man saying some stuff about \u201cforcing him to use mercy bullets,\u201d and then they land and get to work incapacitating dudes.
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This is really spiralling out of control. Hitman tries to escape in his chopper, but Spidey grabs on, throwing it off balance and forcing it to crash on Lady Liberty\u2019s head, where JJJ happens to be. Hitman takes him hostage, and then just\u2026 shoots Spidey? As he falls over the side, Punisher climbs up. Hitman does the whole \u201cyou should join me\u201d bit, but Frank\u2019s not into it.
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I\u2019ll never get over how chummy Spidey and Punisher were in the 70s. Great friends! The whole \u201cwantonly killing people\u201d thing not an issue for Spidey at all. So weird. Anyway, this brings us to the end of this block. Next time we see Len & Ross, we\u2019ll go backwards and finally see the stuff I had to skip this time, and in an even further future installment, we\u2019ll pick up where this one left off. In the meantime, we\u2019ll skip ahead not all that far, actually, to rejoin the Marv Wolfman run with ASM 189.
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This looks pretty silly. Jim Mooney inks this one solo. As it opens, Punisher is just shooting at the escaping chopper, JJJ be damned, I guess. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to shoot him!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9,308,22,787,13,18,26,91,116,171,74,2],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1970s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-glory-grant","tag-harry-osborn","tag-hitman","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-jim-mooney","tag-joe-robertson","tag-len-wein","tag-marla-madison","tag-punisher","tag-ross-andru","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","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=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7295,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions\/7295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}