{"id":1488,"date":"2019-08-27T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2019-05-19T19:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:50:50","slug":"mtu-142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/08\/27\/mtu-142\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 142"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This one\u2019s another Ebay find. I got MTU 140-150 for just $7.99 pretty early in my quest. The early days were the best, because there was so much I didn\u2019t have, especially in all the titles that weren\u2019t ASM, that I could find bulk bargains on stuff. This one\u2019s by David Michelinie, Greg LaRocque, Mike Esposito & Bob Sharen continue on as the art team, and will for the rest of the series. Captain Marvel! It hasn\u2019t been long since we saw her debut here on the blog, but it\u2019s been a few years\u2019 worth of comics in the timeline. She\u2019s become a member of the Avengers and everything, she\u2019s doing good. Let\u2019s see what she\u2019s up to. We open in a room-sized model of New York that looks like the set for a Godzilla movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaaaalright. Well, naturally, no rest for Spider-Man, because as soon as he says that, goons in henchman outfits rush in. They helpfully let us know they\u2019re shooting a security guard with \u201cgelatin bullets filled with knockout juice\u201d so we don\u2019t have to worry about him, and then Spider-Man leaps in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey\u2019s got some junk in his trunk this month. He handily defeats all the goons except the guy holding the stuff, who teleports them all out, leaving Spider-Man to explain things to the police. Meanwhile, on Long Island, Monica Rambeau is visiting the Maritime Museum, thinking about her old life in New Orleans, where the sea was her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are these guys just pretending to have real bullets or did they not get the memo about Jell-O guns? No, these guys at least think they\u2019re shooting to kill, but Captain Marvel can turn her body into light, so they can\u2019t do much to her as one of them steals The Windstone. I dunno about this thing. Turning herself into electricity, she zaps all the goons but one, who does a runner. She flies out of the building after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh ho. Monica\u2019s powers being knocked out by that teleportation field is a surprise. Especially for her. She almost splatters onto the street, but regains her powers at the last second. Returning to The Museum, she finds the curator worrying these guys might come back for the stone, so Monica offers to take it to Avengers Mansion. Then we turn our attention to \u201cThe Paulson Foundation,\u201d a research institute in the suburbs, where were learn a Dr. Paulson sent all the goons out on their missions, and he\u2019s mad about not getting The Windstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that seemingly random analogy, without really telling us what the machine does, Dr. Paulson feels conflicted about pushing the button and wiping a billion human beings from the face of the Earth. Whoa, guy, listen to that doubt! What\u2019re these weirdos up to? Back in Manhattan, Peter Parker heads to The Daily Bugle, going through the morgue for any other incidents of vanishing goons, when he\u2019s approached by, uh, Bert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t know who Bert is, maybe he lives down here, we\u2019re not told. But thanks for the exposition, Bert! The aforementioned CM is just putting the stone into a vault at Avengers Mansion, when Starfox, aka Eros, aka Thanos\u2019 much nicer brother and her fellow Avenger, lets her know they\u2019re the only ones home right now and he\u2019s got a date with all of the Rockettes. Eros can control how people feel about him, among other powers, and is generally a wildly creepy character, even though he\u2019s a good guy. He flies off and leaves Monica alone to worry about her powers going out on her, and as soon as he\u2019s gone\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CM finds not only that her electricity form doesn\u2019t bother the monster, but it can grab her in her light form somehow, as the goons set up their 2nd machine in front of the vault. Luckily, \u00a0Spider-Man is right outside, trying to decide how to approach the Avengers when a hole is blasted in the wall, and he hops on in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, Jarvis. The big beastie starts chasing him, and the heroes rescue him. They then leap into action against the monster, but it and all the goons do their disappearing act. Spidey just manages to tag one of them with a tracer on his way out, but he knows his range is limited and these guys could be anywhere. CM mentions them saying their teleport can\u2019t take them too far, so they hop in a Quinjet and go hunting. And they better hurry, because those weirdos have put The Windstone on top of their murder machine and declared it complete. It\u2019s time for Dr. Paulson to flip the switch, and in his hesitation, he notices the tracer on his goon\u2019s leg. Too late, though, as Spidey & Captain Marvel come blasting through the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He created the Population Reduction by InterDimensional Expulsion machine (hur hur), which breaches other dimensions. They\u2019ve used it to teleport their goons and to bring in that big monster from another dimension, and he plans to zap \u201call world capitols\u201d into another dimension, reducing the population and leaving the world\u2019s \u201ccowardly\u201d governments to their fate. Honestly, the zapping all governments into another dimension plan is pretty appealing, but come on, man, this is terrible, so it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. Paulson flips the switch before our heroes get past the goons, though, and the room begins to go crazy, bits of other dimensions warping in and out all over. Spidey decides that if the gem is what\u2019s used to focus the machine, he\u2019ll just redirect the gem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh! Next time, the adventure continues, and Starfox returns to play a larger role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one\u2019s another Ebay find. I got MTU 140-150 for just $7.99 pretty early in my quest. The early days were the best, because there was so much I didn\u2019t have, especially…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[253,297,259,323,350,71,52,309,2,349],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-bob-sharen","tag-captain-marvel","tag-david-michelinie","tag-greg-larocque","tag-jarvis","tag-marvel-team-up","tag-mike-esposito","tag-monica-rambeau","tag-spider-man","tag-starfox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","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=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4407,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/4407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}