{"id":767,"date":"2020-02-24T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=767"},"modified":"2024-02-07T18:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:38:45","slug":"asm-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/02\/24\/asm-127\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 127"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just noticed the insides of the letters being black on the cover was actually done by someone with a pen, so you know this is gonna be a good one. The culprit? Ronald. He wrote his name on the inside cover. I gotcho old comic, Ronald! This issue completes the team that will be doing ASM until issue 150, Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, and inkers Frank Giacoia & Dave Hunt. And things are pretty crazy right out of the gate:
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Spidey decides to change clothes and go see MJ, to make sure she goes to the police. He thinks it will keep her safe. He also thinks about how she\u2019s been trying to take care of him since Gwen died, and now he can try to return the favor, which is nice. She lets him in even though it\u2019s after midnight (He doesn\u2019t even try to explain why he\u2019s there), and he makes her coffee and asks her what happened.
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Wh… what? WHAT? THAT\u2019S his idea of \u201ctaking care of her?\u201d Good God! Peter changes back to Spidey and says he\u2019s going to investigate the crime scene, but as soon as he gets airborne, just in case you didn\u2019t notice on the cover, the perpetrator of the crime is revealed.
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Well, sort of. They fight for a page and a half before\u2026
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Nothing gets past Spider-Man! Except The Vulture, who just sort of hops backwards during the fight, causing Spider-Man to lunge right past him and fall nearly to his death. He manages to make a web net just like a foot off the ground so he hits pretty hard. Hard enough that The Vulture assumes he\u2019s dead and leaves. Real professional, Spidey. Then he also just leaves, and the very next panel has him at the window of Johnny Storm with no \u201cLater\u2026\u201d or anything. Andru\u2019s panel-to-panel continuity seems like it\u2019s often very confusing and abrupt, and Conway is scrambling to make it work. Spidey\u2019s come to check on his Spider-Mobile. Yeah, that\u2019s really happening.
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They stay up working on the car until dawn, presumably being dicks to each other the entire time, and then Spidey swings home. He\u2019s having some breakfast when poor, crazed Harry Osborn shows up.
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MJ tries to tell Peter she was just joking about seeing a murder, but neither of them is buying it. Just then, Flash Thompson pulls up in a car he borrowed from his cousin and offers to drive them around. They get in, but Flash can tell things are weird. Before they can get any weirder, though, The Vulture reappears.
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Yikes! Flash is understandably distracted and barely avoids running into an oncoming van, instead crashing into a telephone pole. He\u2019s unharmed, but out cold, allowing Peter to rush off to save MJ. Well, nearly.
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Warren won\u2019t take no for an answer, and starts telling Peter how he\u2019s annoyed that he\u2019s not attending class anymore, and tries to give him an ultimatum, but Peter just runs off. He worries this means he\u2019s probably going to be failing two of his classes this semester, but MJ\u2019s life is more important, of course, so he\u2019s gotta be a hero. He catches up to The Vulture, who says he has a surprise for Spider-Man\u2026
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Conway sure loves to repeat things for emphasis. Peter\u2019s seemed less obsessed with Gwen this issue, but clearly, still not there. MJ doesn\u2019t say a word as he gently lowers her to the ground, bellows that he won\u2019t let The Vulture hurt anyone ever again, and swings off. As we\u2019ve seen already, more than ten years after this issue was published, Tom Defalco made the major revelation that MJ has known Peter was Spider-Man a long time. It\u2019s fun to read MJ\u2019s interactions with Spider-Man with that in mind and see how they hold up. Here, she doesn\u2019t seem too surprised to see him, which would make sense if she knew who he was when she got carried off. Anyway, Spidey swings away, wondering what The Vulture was doing here since he seemed surprised to find MJ, and also wondering (Rather late) why he killed that girl last night in the first place. Then he hears a scream and swings in a window to find Vulch menacing a lab assistant.
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We\u2019re told we\u2019ll find out more about that lady next issue as the fight spills out onto the street, where a bunch of cops and Flash & MJ are standing around. The cops literally just throw a net over Spidey & The Vulture like they\u2019re animals.
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Man, Harry is not in a good place. Vulture breaks out of the net and, still blinded by Spider-Man\u2019s webbing, grabs someone by the shirt and flies away. He thinks he grabbed the girl from before, but he\u2019s got Spidey. Why would it be her, she wasn\u2019t even around. They fly off into the distance as Flash and MJ discuss whether Spidey will be ok and Harry keeps making crazy faces. Then The Vulture finally gets the web off his face, sees who he has (\u201cYou\u2019re not Christine!\u201d), and just drops him.
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Uh-oh! Falling to his death as usual?? How\u2019s Spidey gonna get out of this one? Back in the letter page, are we still going insane over Gwen\u2019s death?
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Yes, we are.
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