{"id":12004,"date":"2022-02-08T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12004"},"modified":"2020-12-15T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:35:40","slug":"mtu-055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/02\/08\/mtu-055\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 055"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of 77. A Dave Cockrum cover, but he really nailed Jim Starlin\u2019s Warlock face. Dave Hunt swaps in to ink as Spider-Man is hallucinating all his friends and foes while being rocketed to space. We see Hulk and Woodgod wander off in separate directions and help recap before getting back to Spidey to finish the recap. He\u2019s almost out of air, but then a comet appears outside, which turns out to actually be Warlock. And he\u2019s huge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man has really done a lot of travelling since MTN Annual 1. Mantlo sure doesn\u2019t mind sending him all through time, and now apparently space. Warlock manages to set the rocket down on the moon, but at the last minute, some outside force seems to make his Soul gem disobey him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The six Infinity Gems, of course, tho they won\u2019t actually be named that for awhile yet. Up until now, we hadn\u2019t even seen them all. By now, Mantlo has a pretty fun voice for Spider-Man. Very Bugs Bunny energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Stranger chucks Spider-Man into the distance. He tries to break his fall with his webbing, but he\u2019s going too fast. He smashes into a tree and passes out. Warlock and The Stranger have a big goofy cosmic fight over Warlock\u2019s gem, while elsewhere, Spidey awakes to find The Gardner, another of the elders of the universe (Like The Stranger, and more familiarly, The Collector). This is apparently his first appearance. He\u2019s the one who\u2019s grown all this plant life in the blue area of the moon, but then The Stranger showed up and started wrecking the place not long before our heroes\u2019 arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While Spidey makes another desperate but doomed attempt to fight The Stranger, The Gardner muses to himself that the big guy didn\u2019t come here for Warlock\u2019s gem, but for his. He decides he can\u2019t let Warlock die for him, and begins using his gem to make his plants rise up against The Stranger. Gardner has The Power Gem, and The Stranger as The Time Gem. And, despite all things Infinity being Jim Starlin\u2019s domain, this is their first appearances! Kind of wild to me, that such a big part of his decades-long cosmic epic was introduced by someone else. I wonder if they talked about it. Anyway, Spidey tricks Stranger into zapping Warlock\u2019s prison, freeing him, and then… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2019s in the egg? Don\u2019t know! What did The Stranger want on Earth? Don\u2019t know! But at least our man is headed back there, too. I still want to know how he planned to get out of New Mexico. What luck, to run into a spaceman who can take him back to New York. This one has another letter from Fred Hembeck, who rightly critiques Mike Esposito\u2019s inks and hopes someone else can take over. Wish granted, Fred, the whole creative team\u2019s changed! This catches MTU up to ASM 166, so now it\u2019s off to TAC 4, released the same month, and we\u2019re more or less on track with all the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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