Well, sure. If you’re covering their relationship, why not the silly car they worked on together? We once again get some clear markers for where we are pretty quickly…
That Russian lady is an intern with Reed, it appears, and so is Peter Parker. That seems like a big deal to retcon in there like this. Nina is excited to meet Peter, having read his paper on “advanced adhesives,” and Reed helpfully adds that Peter is a genius, “tested right off the charts,” getting the same “scores” he got at Peter’s age. On… what test? Johnny is feeling dejected. Then Reed just starts using his “gravity localizer” on everyone without warning or consent, making them all walk on walls, like Peter is used to. Random. Later, Peter is given a passcode for the lab in case Reed in unavailable, and then he and Nina leave. And then thing about Nina is, she’s a Russian in a pastiche of a Cold War-era comic, so…
A shirt open to the belt AND a skirt, Red Ghost really had a fashion sense.
Rude. I like Peter going to Robbie, tho. Coulda used that in the real books. Well, Johnny Storm is working on his car, wondering if he’s not as cool as he thinks, and missing Crystal when Spider-Man shows up and asks for a driving lesson in his silly car, and Johnny is almost relieved for something to take his mind off things.
Spider-Man absolutely is wanted for murder, tho. Like that 3rd panel banter. The boys see Stilt-Man, but they’re stuck in traffic, so Johnny says to just pull over. But Spidey has no idea how to parallel park, and next we see, a TV says Daredevil stopped Stilt-Man as Johnny and Spidey get lunch… and then walk back to the car to find hoodlums have stolen its wheels. Johnny says this thing is driving him up the wall, and that gives Spider-Man an idea.
A nice moment between the two at a time where it really doesn’t fit. They weren’t really this kinda close back then. But… I guess they are/were now. While they’re doing that, the Red Ghost is breaking into the Baxter Building to steal the thing they just put in the car. RG is furious he can’t find the machine, but, Ninan knows where it is, because…
In the instant classic Marvels series, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross had a little fun having future Ghost Rider Danny Ketch appear as a little boy on a bike with a newspaper route in a story taking place the day after Gwen died. And here he is again. That’s funny. Well, the boys get the car on the ground just in time to seemingly hit a pedestrian, but Johnny thinks it almost looked like the car went through the guy, and when they get out to see to him, he turns out to be the Red Ghost. What a bizarre and impossible to execute plan. And it gets more absurd as he has the Super-Apes steal the car while he’s distracting the heroes. An orangutan is driving a car in this comic. Spidey webs onto the bumper and gets dragged along behind it as Torch shoots fire at RG and hits a hydrant through him, soaking himself. Then the gorilla rips the fender Spidey’s web is attached to off the car, they pick up their boss, and this absolutely ridiculous heist seems to have been a success. And then… due to the time period… the solution to this problem presents itself.
They really went there. I mean, I guess in a comic featuring the Spider-Mobile, silly is the only way, but they really went there.
A very wacky one. Pretty fun, but kind of a lot of fluff.