{"id":10103,"date":"2021-08-11T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2020-07-05T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T01:54:40","slug":"asm-419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/08\/11\/asm-419\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 419"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost illegible cover copy is an unfortunate hallmark of the period. The BLACK Tarantula. Not The Tarantula. That\u2019s another guy. Or is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s right, it\u2019s time for YET ANOTHER mystery man! Who is The Black Tarantula? Who cares? Elsewhere, Spider-Man watching Ben Urich meet with an informant, but can\u2019t hear what they\u2019re saying. Ben\u2019s being told about a deal between The Rose and The Black Tarantula for a million dollars in smuggled emeralds, but he\u2019s never heard of The Black Tarantula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skroce\u2019s Spider-Man is ok for the period, but I don\u2019t really care for his, uh, anything else. Spidey finishes beating up the goons and then Peter & Ben head back to The Bugle, where Robbie is low on work for our beleaguered hero. Let\u2019s get some exposition about Black Tarantula\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delilah and her ridiculous fonts are BACK! Meanwhile, MJ & Aunt Anna have been painting over the walls of what should have been Baby May\u2019s bedroom and break for lunch. Anna says she\u2019s enrolling in a bunch of adult education classes she\u2019s interested in, and asks MJ if she\u2019s thought about her future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Anna is the new May, and killing May was even more pointless than it seemed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As he changes to Spider-Man and heads out after the emerald thing, Peter thinks college could be just what MJ needs, and also that he could finally get his masters. In School Forever: The Peter Parker Story.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s the most dangerous, most scariestest person in the universe, and that\u2019s why you\u2019ve somehow never heard of him!\u201d Peter calls Ben to see if he wants in on the emerald bust, and Ben says no, but then goes, anyway. He passes Angela Yin, who\u2019s randomly come across a photo of the evil doctor who handled MJ\u2019s birth. What a strange coincidence. Then, all credit where it\u2019s due, Skroce does one of the better \u201cSpider-Man moving through his acrobatics\u201d sequences I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bit hard to photograph, but the movements make perfect sense and flow nicely. Sometimes (Especially in this period) guys trying their hand at this trope just draw 6 or 8 random Spider-Men and move on, but this is an actual sequence of moves. So the deal is set, Black Tarantula\u2019s guys are ready for a doublecross, and Ben & Spidey are ready for action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wait, what? A six-letter word that begins with \u201cand\u201d and ends with \u201ch?\u201d \u201cAnd__h?\u201d What\u2026 what word is that? Is he trying to say \u201cambush?\u201d What\u2026 Anyway, BT\u2019s henchmen start shooting to kill immediately. Spidey is horrified and jumps in, while Ben calls the cops. While Spidey fights various goons, the big one smashes Delilah into the ground like she\u2019s nothing in spite of her strength and gimmicks before discovering a bomb in the money bag she brought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey just poking him in the eye is legit great. Delilah arms the bomb remotely as she flees, and Spidey has just enough time to scoop up Ben and run for it before the explosion catches the big guy, various other goons, and Peter\u2019s camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course that wasn\u2019t The Black Tarantula. We gotta drag this out. One of the guys most responsible for making The Hobgoblin secret drag out way too long essentially giving it another go with what is destined to be a far lamer character is highly ill-advised, if you asked me. But here we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost illegible cover copy is an unfortunate hallmark of the period. The BLACK Tarantula. Not The Tarantula. That\u2019s another guy. Or is it? That\u2019s right, it\u2019s time for YET ANOTHER mystery man!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[9,438,36,113,965,253,964,618,966,21,2,963,325,124],"class_list":["post-10103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-angela-yin","tag-aunt-anna","tag-ben-urich","tag-black-tarantula","tag-bob-sharen","tag-bud-la-rosa","tag-delilah","tag-el-uno","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-spider-man","tag-steve-skroce","tag-the-rose","tag-tom-defalco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10116,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions\/10116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}