{"id":1414,"date":"2019-08-19T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2019-05-17T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:03:01","slug":"mtu-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/08\/19\/mtu-141\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 141"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Would that the amazing team of Art Adams and Mike Mignola were providing more than just the cover to this issue, another win from The Great Ebay Hysteria of 2018. Not as pricey as ASM 252, but with some degree of debate about what constitutes the true first appearance of the new suit, it can fetch high prices. Happily, I didn\u2019t pay one. Patience pays off. Note that we\u2019ve only seen 2 people draw the new suit so far, and they\u2019ve both drawn the big spider a little differently. Time to check back in on the court case from MTU 140. The story continues from a plot by Tom Defalco, but this issue is scripted by Jim Owlsey, aka Christopher Priest, the man who would one day reinvent The Black Panther, creating a lot of the foundation for the movie, even. Right now, though, he\u2019s an assistant editor and sometimes writer at Marvel, and his style is way less florid than Bill Mantlo\u2019s making the transition a bit jarring. Greg LaRocque swaps in on breakdowns, while Mike Esposito remains on finishes and Glynis Wein continues on colors.
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Since this hood (Whose comic book tough guy name, Cool Breeze, is much better than the usual \u201cSlag\u201d or \u201cMotor\u201d or whatever. There was even a rapper named Cool Breeze in the 90s) didn\u2019t do the crime, Matt\u2019s no closer to justice as he checks in with Ben Urich out in the hallway to recap last issue. Then Matt pulls a Batman on Ben to go switch to Daredevil.
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\u201cCould one guy disappearing be related to a whole bunch of his peers disappearing? HMMMMM.\u201d As DD heads to the gang hideout, Natasha is pulling up to the pawnshop with her homeboy, Ivan. I don\u2019t really know who he is, but he seems to be her driver. She goes inside to find a whole bunch of the gang members. She\u2019s about to get rough when\u2026
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Hm. While that\u2019s happening, DD is at their hideout, whupping up everyone present, fully the Frank Miller version of the character now, brutal and stern, as opposed to the last time we saw him on this blog.
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You\u2019d think he\u2019d be even more brutal, though, because I looked it up, and when this came out, Elektra was just killed last month! DD\u2019s doing prrrretty well, all things considered. We shall assume this takes place prior to that. Anyway, he leaves one dude conscious to talk to him, and then we take a one-page break to see The Kingpin doing his usual \u201cfight a small army of dudes in uncomfortably small undies\u201d thing while his right-hand man, The Arranger, gives him his daily report.
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Is that going to be a problem? This issue is half-over already. Back to Matt Murdock, now visiting his client, and he\u2019s not happy. Juan\u2019s story about being a good kid set up for a fall last issue isn\u2019t true. He was a member of the gang, but he was holding out on them, so they set him up for the murder. This is a pretty jarring change. Later, at his place, Matt\u2019s in his DD suit, telling \u2018Tasha he just wants to quit, and she\u2019s all for it. He can\u2019t REALLY quit, though, he\u2019s Matt Murdock\u2026
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Weird timing, Nat! At that moment, in Central Park, a reporter is recapping what happened \u201cjust minutes ago,” when Spider-Man & Curt Connors came flying out of the Beyonder\u2019s space-thing, as seen in ASM 252. This issue offers a faster version of the same scene with necessarily different dialogue. Part of it is told in flashback, by the guy who had the thermos, and the rest is in real time, picking up with Spidey trying to recover his normal clothes. Interesting choice. I guess they felt their readers deserved to know what happened, sort of, quickly, if they don\u2019t read ASM. The next day (So we started before ASM 252 and are now past it), a still jazzed Peter Parker heads into work at The Bugle\u2026
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Flatout telling Ben where he\u2019s been is pretty funny. And they have to take a sec to show the MTU audience how the new suit works. Now it\u2019s off to adventure, as Spider-Man heads to the offices of Nelson & Murdock, but Matt\u2019s not in, and Foggy & their current secretary Becky don\u2019t recognize him.
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As a lot of artists will, Esposito is really taking advantage of the suit being black. As Spidey wonders where Matt is, Daredevil & Black Widow are headed back to the pawnshop, but are stopped by The Arranger, saying Fisk has a proposition for Daredevil. At the same time, Spidey sees the gang members from earlier loading a bunch of the stolen goods from last issue into a \u201cU CARRY\u201d truck (Get it?). Owsley has Spidey say either they\u2019re making off with the stolen goods, or \u201cI could be wrong. And Gary Coleman could be a KKK high druid.\u201d I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll find a white writer in comics then, and maybe now, who would\u2019ve been willing to put his name on that joke, that\u2019s pretty funny. As he follows the truck to that same ol\u2019 pawnshop, the situation finally reveals itself\u2026
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Spidey leaps in, just happy one of the goons called him by name in his new suit, but his fun is cut short.
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While they\u2019re having it out, Black Widow has followed Arnold as he tries to escape. He threatens to use his gun, the same one that killed the previous owner, but of course, Natasha is far more intimidating that he is, and he hands it over.
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Man, that\u2019s something. Was DD going to let those dudes kill Arnold? The leader did sort of seem like he wasn\u2019t going to kill him before Spidey dove in. That\u2019s weird. And, strangely, not the last time this kind of situation will present itself between Spidey & DD. But that\u2019s for later. For now\u2026
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Weeeeeird ending, man! And now for something even weirder. Around this time, Marvel did a stunt called \u201cAssistant Editors Month.\u201d The gimmick was that the editors of all the comics were away somewheres, so their assistants were in charge, and under this conceit, Marvel published some really wacky comics. But honestly, maybe nothing wackier than Marvel Team-Up 137\u2026
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I\u2019ll give you a second to take that in. Ok. Now, I\u2019ve not read that one, but it\u2019s pretty notorious, as you\u2019d imagine. Well, this issue is where they can publish letters about that issue, and the first one seemed noteworthy enough to write this whole tangent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stan Lee sure loved the dames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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