{"id":1119,"date":"2019-07-29T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2019-05-12T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:21:48","slug":"mtu-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/29\/mtu-117\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 117"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whatever Bob Layton was going for with this weird cover, I don\u2019t think it worked. I\u2019ve had this one for many years, but honestly, I have no idea where it came from. Legit nothin\u2019. It doesn\u2019t seem like a comic I would\u2019ve bought. I didn\u2019t actively seek out MTU until just recently. But I\u2019ve had it for a long time. Even more baffling, I have a reprint of it in Marvel Tales. I have 2 copies of this and don\u2019t know why. Anyway. The usual suspects bring us a team-up of Marvel\u2019s two most popular characters in this time period (And probably now, also, although it seems like Wolverine\u2019s star has faded in recent years). Shame we didn\u2019t get a better artist. We get rolling with Wolverine hunting a deer. As he creeps up to it, someone somewhere is watching him on a camera, marveling at his skill for stealth. Then there\u2019s this bit. You might have seen it passed around on the internet:
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Yeah. Wolverine just taps deer once he catches them. He\u2019s pretty happy about the whole thing as the deer runs off, until a Roman Centurion on horseback brandishing a laser gun accuses him of trespassing. There\u2019s something you don\u2019t see every day. And it gets weirder, because suddenly there is a \u201cno trespassing\u201d sign that wasn\u2019t there moments before.
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The panel of him putting his claws out is so odd. Logan dives into what appears to be a Roman Legion with abandon. Within minutes, their leader is terrified to note that he\u2019s already \u201cdefeated\u201d (read: chopped up?) 100 soldiers. So they toss gas canisters at him, and that takes him out.
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I have no idea who this is. I\u2019ve apparently read this story before, maybe twice. No memory of it. The goons dispatched to the city are for Spider-Man, of course, who is on his way to attend a science lecture with some of his classmates when a bunch of Roman Centurions in flying machines come for him. He sees a crowd gathering below, naturally, so he decides to lead them away so no one gets hurt. Then he does what he does.
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They try to deploy the gas, but Spidey dives into an alley and loses them. They give up and fly away, not knowing he planted a tracer on one of them. And I guess his now-ruined plans were also a date with Marcy Kane? For real? A lot can happen when you miss five issues of Spectacular Spider-Man, I guess (We\u2019ll check back in with #67 in a few posts). Meanwhile, Wolverine wakes up in a coliseum filled with mannequin spectators and fake crowd noise played over a loud speaker, as\u2026
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The knight turns out to be a robot, easily dispatched. Then Wolvie slashes his way into a door and is shocked by what he sees. We\u2019ll have to wait to see what that is, as his mysterious host is watching Spider-Man swing up now. Ludicrously, through a forest, like it\u2019s no big deal. So, the mystery man does what you do in these situations and\u2026 raises his giant castle out of the ground. Really, man?
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Really. Spider-Man is run through a gauntlet of your typical traps… spikes and trap doors and such\u2026 while Wolverine finds himself in a Roman Bacchanal-type situation. It\u2019s all robots, too, though, and he\u2019s pretty mad.
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That\u2019s just weird. Wolvie keeps on slashing up robots as Spider-Man walks in. He initially thinks Spidey is a robot, too, but the ol\u2019 misunderstanding only lasts 3 panels, because we got stuff to do. The master of the place decides to test their \u201cspiritual mettle\u201d with a crisis, and the next room finds them confronted with\u2026
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Wolverine responds to this devil\u2019s bargain by leaping up and destroying the robot. But a 2nd one walks in and keeps talking. This is some setup. Spidey wants to know why this is happening, and is told it’s a test. Then Wolverine stops trying to slash everything and offers a plan:
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\u201cWho are we? I don\u2019t know!\u201d Well, he\u2019s Spider-Man and you\u2019re Wolverine\u2026 Spidey forces Logan\u2019s hand by going to help the prison, so Wolvie\u2019s off to save the town. He jumps up and beheads the 2nd robot just like he did the first, though, just \u2018cuz. A quickly made web slingshot gives Spidey the altitude he needs to reach the plane about to gas the prison\u2026
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While Wolverine approaches the army headed for the town only for them to all disappear in a flash. On top of that, the town is completely empty, too, the whole thing was fake. As the heroes make their way back to the castle, it\u2019s not there anymore. Wolverine goes nuts and slashes away at the ground until he reveals a tunnel.
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The scale of this is out-of-control-ridiculous. I guess we\u2019ll get some answers next issue.
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Whatever Bob Layton was going for with this weird cover, I don\u2019t think it worked. I\u2019ve had this one for many years, but honestly, I have no idea where it came from….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[253,262,125,71,52,137,2,300],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-bob-sharen","tag-herb-trimpe","tag-jm-dematteis","tag-marvel-team-up","tag-mike-esposito","tag-professor-power","tag-spider-man","tag-wolverine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","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=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}