{"id":11227,"date":"2021-11-12T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=11227"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T18:25:45","slug":"asm-074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/11\/12\/asm-074\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 074"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome back to How Shady Will The Credits Be Today? Silvermane straight up drinking out of a beaker can\u2019t be good. After a surprisingly long time in suspense, the deal behind the tablet. As for the credits, unusually honest in one respect: Stan calls himself \u201cScript Writer\u201d instead of \u201cWriter\u201d or \u201cAuthor.\u201d John Romita is \u201cInnovating\u201d once again and Jim Mooney is Illustrating. If Johnny got a \u201cPlot\/Layouts\u201d credit, it\u2019d be the most honest credits of any 60s Marvel comic. Anyway, it\u2019s seconds after last issue, and Man Mountain Marko is trying to scare Curt Connors into translating the tablet by saying they\u2019ve taken his wife & child, and Curt is really terrified he\u2019ll become The Lizard any second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curt explains that the only thing people know about this famous tablet is it\u2019s something to do with biology and \u201cthe mystery of life itself,\u201d which explains why they want him around, if not why they think he can translate it. Meanwhile, Spidey reads The Bugle and sees Caesar Cicero bailed out Wilson, thinking that\u2019s weird. He remembers Marko letting slip that The Maggia sent him after Shocker\u2019s girl, so he knows Cicero is his best bet to get some answers, and he knows where that guy\u2019s \u201clegitimate\u201d office is. Spidey is lucky enough to catch him leaving for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even Stan wasn\u2019t above giving Spidey the occasional instantly-dated pop culture reference. It just feels like the kind of thing he\u2019d have in his banter. Spidey doesn\u2019t get anything out of Caesar before the goons he summoned burst in guns blazing from a secret door behind a bookcase, and it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. The muscle blabs that they think Spidey\u2019s here to free Curt & his family, and now Spidey knows they were kidnapped by The Maggia. Good job, fellas. Caesar flees as Spider-Man fights his goons, thinking he better move Martha & Billy Connors before Spider-Man can free them, and Spidey is attacked by a 2nd wave of goons. He bets Caesar\u2019s rushing to move the captives tho (Good guess!) and webs them all up before smashing through the bookcase to the secret hallway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As he races down some stairs, our man hears the voices of Martha & Billy, stopping short of a door to the next room, when that door explodes. Caesar speeds off with Martha & Billy in a car, assuming Spider-Man is dead. Spidey just webbed the door to blow it and is fine, of course, and swings off, hoping to track down that car. Soon, Cicero delivers Martha & Billy to a furious Silvermane, who rightly predicts this will bring Spider-Man down on him. Marko likes the sound of that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not much longer if upcoming covers are any indication! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I believe this is only the 3rd story with The Connorses in it? I think that\u2019s true. And you can already see what a mess their life is. Billy suddenly looks a lot older than he used to (Or will in the future). Having no idea where to go and watching the sun come up, Spidey goes home to get some sleep, worrying all the while that he hasn\u2019t called Aunt May or Gwen in a long time. The next day, he goes to school even though he feels he should be out searching for Dr. Connors. And then\u2026 Harry Osborn walks up, and\u2026 uh\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bad hair choices are becoming the norm around here! What\u2019s next, is Gwen gonna shave her head?? Wow! When is he gonna shave that mess off his face? I guess we\u2019ll see, but for now, Doc Connors has finished a serum for Silvermane, but he doesn\u2019t want him to drink it, worrying that it\u2019s untested formula based on guess work. Silvermane doesn\u2019t care, saying he\u2019s been studying the tablet for years, and that in \u201cthe old country,\u201d they knew what the serum could do. Then\u2026 why couldn\u2019t anyone translate it\u2026? But anyway, he downs it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who could die??? Especially since literally everyone in this comic appears in future issues? I really have no idea. We\u2019ll find out next time. In the letter page, Stan mentions people are already spending as much as FIFTEEN DOLLARS on \u201cold, dogeared copies of ASM #1.\u201d Those busted copies are now worth thousands and thousands. Fifteen dollars is a good investment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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