{"id":8938,"date":"2021-05-03T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:14:32","slug":"tac-161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/05\/03\/tac-161\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 161"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is this the first appearance of this very brief experiment with the head boxes? This only lasted a couple months, but  little boxes with characters appearing in this issue started popping up on the covers of the Spider-Titles. And I think only the Spider-Titles, I don\u2019t think it was a Marvel thing. And it disappeared pretty quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hurray! Joe\u2019s long, totally unfair nightmare is finally over. And Sal is back to inking himself to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s kind of funny to me that the whole Daily Bugle cast is there. It\u2019s everyone we know who knows Joe, but surely he knows people outside of work besides his wife and son. Anyway, it\u2019s Tombstone & Hammerhead setting off Peter\u2019s Spider Sense as they drive by the prison. They somehow know Robbie has been pardoned. Hammerhead thinks it\u2019s not fair that Joe is a free man while Hammerhead is a fugitive (How? Show your work), and thinks he\u2019ll have to do something about it as they drive away. Isn\u2019t this prison in DC? How is everyone here? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey further catches Reed up on how Malcolm McBride is the latest host to Carrion, and how he would like Reed to try to find a cure him. Then he leaves, and so do we, to a fancy restaurant at night, where a mysterious weirdo who is obviously the newly demonic Hobgoblin is trying to go see \u201cMr. Hammer,\u201d but security is not into how creepy he looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s hilarious. Hobby handily defeats that guy and 3 more equally gigantic thugs before continuing on to meet Hammerhead & Tombstone. Hammerhead wants Hobby to kill Joe Robertson. Tombstone objects, but Hammerhead says he\u2019s too involved. For $25,000, Hobgoblin is off to kill Joe. Seems pretty cheap. Meanwhile, the whole gang is at Randy Robertson\u2019s house in Queens (Except a late Peter Parker) to celebrate Joe\u2019s freedom. He\u2019s telling them all he owes his life and his newfound will to live to Bruiser, and asks that they never forget him, which is nice. They present Robbie with a gold plated pen that JJJ bought for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fireheart makes the very reasonable point that he doesn\u2019t have time to handle the day-to-day operations of a newspaper. Joe is pretty shocked, and goes outside with Martha to discuss it, while JJJ fumes. The newly reunited couple share a tender moment, but it\u2019s not gonna last\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robbie tries to get Martha to run for it, but there\u2019s no way she\u2019s leaving him just after getting him back. Everyone runs outside, and in a fun turn of events, since Peter\u2019s not there, MJ quietly demands Fireheart turn into Puma, since she knows his secret, and he agrees. Hobby is about to kill a defiant Joe, who refuses to run, when a mystery man who\u2019s obviously Tombstone shoots the razor bat out of his hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s a neat trick. Say, isn\u2019t this a Spider-Man comic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There we go. I really like how Sal handles the denser web pattern on Spidey\u2019s suit in this period. What a pain to draw, but he really does it right. Spidey grabs onto Hobby\u2019s glider as Puma gets a 2nd wind. Hobgoblin tries to fly Spider-Man into a nearby billboard, but he hops loose and latches onto it. Improbably, the notes he took from Reed\u2019s lab come out of his\u2026 pocket? He doesn\u2019t have pockets\u2026 and flutters into Hobby\u2019s hand. He stashes the paper or later as Puma charges him again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complicated! This story is just getting started, running for a couple more issues of Spectacular, so come back for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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