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I still feel a little weird about running the 90s retcons with the actual 60s stuff, but I must say, it gives me some variety switching back and forth, and that\u2019s nice. Kind of the idea of the whole blog in microcosm. Here\u2019s another one I\u2019ve been trying to get on ebay for like 2 years. My reasoning being, it\u2019s only the 2nd Vulture. Still very early, of course, but it\u2019s not the debut of a villain or anything. I figure I could find a busted up, junky copy in my price range, but so far, no good. Anyway, he\u2019s back, America\u2019s favorite flyin\u2019 grandpa. Literally, now, as they\u2019ve made the bizarre decision in recent years to give him a granddaughter who also flies. But that\u2019s obviously skipping ahead. The splash gives us a 2nd shot of Spidey & Vultch mixing it up in mid-air and then we can get into it. Sort of. Half the first page recaps Vulture\u2019s first appearance superfast, and the other half shows him secretly reconstructing his flying rig in prison just as fast. These prisons just keep letting him remake his wings. Come on, guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter gets a lot of his leads from a guy walking by with a radio in these comics. We\u2019re treated to Spider-Man carefully explaining all his gadgets, including the anti-magnetic converter that beat The Vulture last time, and then told he has to wait 20 minutes to leave Aunt May\u2019s house without being seen in daylight. A kid spots him running across the roofs, but no one believes him. He\u2019s sure he\u2019ll have no trouble beating The Vulture again. For his part, Vultch is already on the prowl in his regular suit with his improved wings. When seen by a police chopper, he takes the chance to test them out, zooming around way faster than they can track, and diving into a window that happens to be a jewelry showroom. He\u2019s got a gun, so he robs it. Lucky break. He tells us if he flies low, the police can\u2019t find him on radar as he zooms off down the street over terrified pedestrians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Always got to trust your magic danger sense, man, that\u2019s rule #1. Vulture presses the attack on his surprised foe, really whupping him as a gathering crowd watches. Spider-Man goes falling to the ground, and is dazed enough to miss firing his web, and crashes into a lower roof. For some reason, Vulture and all the people watching from the street assume Spider-Man is dead. Vultch flies away and a cop monologues about how he always thought Spider-Man was one of the good ones and we\u2019ll miss him. Sheesh. Our man pops right back up, but he landed on his arm, and feels it might be broken as he slumps away from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vulture really loves that silo. All told, Peter got away pretty lucky there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Had to show that page because it\u2019s a legit great gag to have him tell her the truth. The idea that Vulture thinks all Jameson\u2019s employees get paid in cash is pretty silly. I mean, I don\u2019t know the ins and outs of payroll in 1962, but Spider-Man not being able to cash a check has already been a plot point in this very title. Seems like people at The Bugle were probably getting checks. Vulture demands all the money, and JJJ\u2019s such a tightwad he stands there arguing about it with a gun on him. Peter slips away and carefully changes to Spider-Man, webbing his arm and hoping no one notices it\u2019s working like a sling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey and Vulture begin a rollicking chase through The Daily Bugle, papers, desks and cabinets flying everywhere to JJJ\u2019s horror as Vulture tries to find a window to fly out of , which seems a lot harder than it should be. He zips down a stairwell with Spider-Man in hot pursuit and Jameson ranting like crazy behind them. Vulture emerges in the print room, pleased to get some room to maneuver, but Spider-Man\u2019s dropped down the stairs a lot faster than his foe expected, and catches him off guard, landing on his back. This proves maybe not the best idea as Vulture begins flying backwards trying to smash him into things\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vulture flies Spider-Man way up into the sky, intending to drop him from a height he couldn\u2019t possibly survive. But as he gets to the apex, Spider-Man webs his wings closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vague next issue blurbs because Stan didn\u2019t know what next issue was about yet were not uncommon in these days, but he\u2019s pretty on the mark with that one. And look at that, Peter Parker may not have any friends, but he might just have himself a girlfriend. That\u2019s a big development. And we\u2019re gonna see how the Untold Tales gang dance around it in our next post.\u00a0 This issue is the first of a few bonus covers by superstar Olivier Coipel, Mark Morales & Chris Sotomayor! Already making a name for himself when these came out, by now Coipel\u2019s one of the most sought after names in comics art, and has done some memorable Spider-Man stuff. That\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I still feel a little weird about running the 90s retcons with the actual 60s stuff, but I must say, it gives me some variety switching back and forth, and that\u2019s nice….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9,35,11,12,13,172,2,6,8,98],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-aunt-may","tag-betty-brant","tag-flash-thompson","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-liz-allen","tag-spider-man","tag-stan-lee","tag-steve-ditko","tag-vulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","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=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15014,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}