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Boy, it feels like forever since Mark Raxton came back to the book with all these other shenanigans going on. Tombstone filling 3 of the boxes up there is funny. Page one is Robbie furious with JJJ for a cover story on \u201cThe Jameson Digest\u201d showing Spider-Man having defeated Goliath with the caption \u201cWould you trust this man with your city?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, come on, Robbie. Yeah, you could argue Peter may have faked photos of Spider-Man before (As if you didn\u2019t know the truth), but how many photos of Spider-Man has he ever delivered wherein Spider-Man wasn\u2019t doing something a regular person couldn\u2019t do? Almost every photo we\u2019ve ever seen Peter submit was an action shot. Even this, could Peter have put on his Spidey suit and climbed atop Goliath\u2019s unconscious body (If he weren\u2019t Spider-Man, of course)? This plot feels undercooked. Peter chases Robbie into the elevator to try to talk to him, while MJ, who was supposed to have lunch with JJJ & Peter, finds herself without plans until Betty Brant shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Setting up a faux Daily Bugle with all the old characters and leaving the newer ones at the real Bugle with Fireheart seems a weird move, especially since the Puma story can\u2019t last forever. A lot to dig out of later. Aaaannyway, Mark lets the comments go, but then a limo with Tombstone in it pulls up. As The Green Goblin watches, Mark is made to get in the car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh. We cut to MJ & Betty at lunch, where MJ asks if Betty would\u2019ve wanted people to intervene sooner when she was going crazy at the top of the Michelinie era, and she says \u201cyes\u201d in a round about way. When she asks who MJ is worried about, she says she can\u2019t say because she hasn\u2019t even told Peter. Mystery! Then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is so interesting watching the other guys try to do the McFarlane Spider-Man. Sal has been doing this since the 60s, I can\u2019t imagine he\u2019s too into it, and while Alex hasn\u2019t been in the game so long, he\u2019s got an obvious devotion to Romita, Sr. that comes through in every panel, and now he\u2019s gotta do this weird Spider-Man that\u2019s always surrounded by a cloud of webs and stuff. But, you gotta give the kids what they want. Joe is being approached by a guy he was in prison with, who says he can give him Tombstone \u201cwrapped up and ready for the cops\u201d for a price. I guess by Joe\u2019s reaction that this is meant to be a test of his tuff new ethics, though I fail to see how. Meanwhile, Spider-Man arrives at the building he lives in, where his Spider Sense is set off by Mark Raxton, even though he poses no threat, because he\u2019s looking for help. I give up on Conway & the Spider Sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s nice. These 2 have been through some pretty brutal fights, and look at them now. I like a good redemption story (As long as it\u2019s not, say, making Dr. Octopus a hero in a cloned Peter Parker body, but that\u2019s 2010s talk). Later, at the Parker household, MJ has just told Peter she saw Harry\u2019s Green Goblin gear while babysitting, which I genuinely forgot about already. They\u2019re worried and they don\u2019t know what to do, so they make the unusual-for-comics choice to just go ask what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not putting The Green Goblin on the cover of this issue described as \u201cSpidey\u2019s ally\u201d would\u2019ve really helped this story. Later that night, Tombstone and his boys pull up to Osborn Chemical, and Raxton is waiting for them. He hops on their truck and tells them he\u2019ll take them to where the chemical is. But Joe Robertson is also there, tipped by his snitch. He decides not to call the cops just yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, the last time Harry used the suit, he used it for good, so the pretense was already kinda thin, but at least not announcing this \u201ctwist\u201d on the cover would\u2019ve helped. But look!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The switch Tomby hit locks him in a chamber that begins filling with gas, while outside, SPidey asks Harry what he\u2019s doing, and he says helping, obviously. He\u2019s got you there. And the 3 heroes are just about done taking out Tombstone\u2019s goons(tones), in spite of Harry\u2019s serious lack of experience in this area The Goblin explains \u201chis friend Harry\u201d asked him to keep an eye on the place, but then Spidey\u2019s danger sense let\u2019s him know he should check on Tombstone. He finds a panicking Joe Robertson outside the chamber trying to open it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can the already murderous and superstrong Tombstone get any worse? We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy, it feels like forever since Mark Raxton came back to the book with all these other shenanigans going on. Tombstone filling 3 of the boxes up there is funny. Page one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[268,11,253,73,40,22,13,26,269,172,21,544,545,2,280,265],"class_list":["post-9039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alex-saviuk","tag-betty-brant","tag-bob-sharen","tag-gerry-conway","tag-green-goblin","tag-harry-osborn","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-joe-robertson","tag-keith-williams","tag-liz-allen","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-molten-man","tag-normie-osborn","tag-spider-man","tag-tombstone","tag-web-of-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039","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=9039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9053,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions\/9053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}