{"id":8362,"date":"2021-03-09T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2020-04-06T22:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T02:16:35","slug":"asm-265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/03\/09\/asm-265\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 265"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a comic that will be introducing Silver Sable, this cover seems an odd choice. ASM is rendered by Ron Frenz and Joe Rubenstein this month. Inside, The Black Fox is fencing some big jewels so he can retire. It is literally the same story as every other Black Fox appearance. Perhaps these are the jewels from ASM 255<\/a>, the rare instance of him getting away clean? I dunno. He doesn\u2019t this time, because cops burst in looking for him. He throws a gas grenade and leaps out a window like he\u2019s not a million year old regular dude. With the cops having failed to capture him, others are called in\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How exciting. But in more important news\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liz & Harry are STILL at the hospital with their new child, in spite of Peter going to spend the weekend with the happy family in last month\u2019s Spectacular. Come on, guys. MJ and I are sympatico on babies & children. Peter leaves, thinking he\u2019s uncomfortable around MJ since he found out she knows his secret, and also thinking about May being mad at him and his relationship with Black Cat coming to a much needed conclusion. Soon he\u2019s Spider-Man out on the street, where he runs into Silver Sable\u2019s Wild Pack chasing The Black Fox. Seeing an army of unfamiliar armored guys shooting at 1 old timer makes Spidey think he knows what side he\u2019s on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lt. Keating! Long time no see! But we must cut from there to the proper introduction of Silver Sable\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some intro! I have no idea why Sable\u2019s thrown weapons are called \u201cchais,\u201d but it doesn\u2019t make sense to me. The internet only seems to know \u201cchai\u201d as the tea and a Jewish symbol. Meanwhile, in Queens, Aunt May is moping about Peter, and Nathan finally gets her to see that, while he\u2019s given up on his dream, she\u2019s given up on him, and he needs her. Some 13 issues later, she finally seems ready to be friends again. But she calls Peter 3 times, and the line is always busy\u2026 because he\u2019s trying to call her. Wah wah waaaaah. Peter decides he\u2019ll have to patch things up in person, and in the meantime, he has to go out looking for Black Fox. But he once again decides his red & blues smell bad, so he has to wear the black & whites. Why is this always the reason? Why can\u2019t he just wear whatever whenever? I dunno. He heads out, thinking the public \u201cwouldn\u2019t accept\u201d a masked adventurer with 2 suits (What are you talking about???_ when he spots a helicopter following him. It\u2019s The Wild Pack, of course, but he moves so fast he eludes them. Cut to Black Fox arranging travel out of the country, observed by yet another member of The Wild Pack, who calls in the helicopter. Spidey hitches a ride on the bottom as they head off after The Fox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fox runs into a gang of Sable\u2019s goons, who open fire on him with their \u201cmercy bullets.\u201d He gets pretty beat up, inspiring Spidey to web the goons and swing off with the old guy. Fox feeds him a sob story about how he\u2019s trying to get back to his wife and 4 children, who he hasn\u2019t seen in years and worries it\u2019s too late to reconnect with, but was hoping to try, and our guy falls for it. So as the helicopter locates them, Spidey\u2019s all-in on keeping The Fox from them. He manages to get Fox into a boat and then fight off The Wild Pack as he escapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s gonna be 1 last job yet again next time\u2026 But who cares about that, here\u2019s the last page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yaaay! They sure dragged that out long enough. But not as long as they\u2019re dragging out the mystery of The Hobgoblin. The letter page is full of guesses. Everyone from Ned Leeds and Betty Brant to actual Marvel employees like Louise Simonson and Elliot R. Brown are postulated to be the villain. If only they knew it would be another 2 years before they get an answer\u2026 And that answer\u2026 may not be correct! I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve talked about it in awhile, but by this time, Tom DeFalco has vetoed Roger Stern\u2019s intended identity for the villain, and it\u2019s not long until editor Jim Owsley, aka Christopher Priest, vetoes Tom\u2019s choice, too. So in a way, no one knows who The Hobgoblin is right now. This situation seems to plague the Spider-Office far too often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a comic that will be introducing Silver Sable, this cover seems an odd choice. ASM is rendered by Ron Frenz and Joe Rubenstein this month. Inside, The Black Fox is fencing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,35,273,253,22,278,172,21,545,321,276,2,124],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-aunt-may","tag-black-fox","tag-bob-sharen","tag-harry-osborn","tag-joe-rubenstein","tag-liz-allen","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-normie-osborn","tag-ron-frenz","tag-silver-sable","tag-spider-man","tag-tom-defalco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362","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=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8374,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions\/8374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}