{"id":15765,"date":"2023-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2021-11-07T01:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T05:53:40","slug":"tac-017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/01\/10\/tac-017\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

$5.50! I musta been out of my mind! McKay\u2019s is so weird. They\u2019ll give you most comics really cheap, they\u2019ll give you a perfectly good comic for 75 cents, and then they\u2019ll randomly have something expensive. I must\u2019ve been so high on the euphoria of cheap comics that I just went along with it, since I needed this one, after all. It is, at least, in nice shape. Let\u2019s find out if it was worth it. A surprising John Byrne cover. Inside, it\u2019s Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema, and Dave Hunt (Dave inking and coloring MTU AND inking this, nice), with a \u201cJanice\u201d credited with colors. Janice Cohen? Who knows? Peter Parker is in Los Angeles! Yeah, it\u2019s very abrupt! JJJ sent him here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t mean to tell the team how to do their job, but Peter has this thing called a \u201cSpider Sense?\u201d Might be helpful in this situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cKid, you got a death wish? Do you not got some kinda danger sense or nothin\u2019??\u201d Angel grabs one of the panes, while the other goes careening toward Peter. We\u2019re told it\u2019s only 2 seconds to impact when he finally senses trouble and flips out of the way just in time. Angel flies down and he and the cops are amazed Peter didn\u2019t die. Angel also learns Peter is the photographer he\u2019s been waiting for, sent by The Bugle \u201cto photograph the break-up of The Champions.\u201d Odd. Have The Champions appeared or been referenced yet? Don\u2019t recall. A weird misfit team of former X-Men and lower tier heroes. And now they\u2019re done, presumably as their comic got cancelled. Angel says he\u2019s too late, that everyone\u2019s gone but him already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that was nice of Warren. Turns out the recently published Champs #17 was, indeed, their final issue, and had been written since #8 by one Bill Mantlro. After flashing back to how they all broke up after their last caper (Presumably in the pages of their own book), Angel says now he\u2019s just waiting around for a buyer or an earthquake to take this building off his hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dave Hunt seems like a solid inker for Sal. He refines and completes the linework instead of just tracing it like Mike Esposito does. Sal\u2019s legendary speed was largely accomplished by hewing closer to breakdowns than full pencils in these days, he needed an inker he could trust, and has one here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, this got weird fast. In short order, it becomes apparent Angel doesn\u2019t want Spider-Man fighting Rampage and Rampage must be Iceman brainwashed or otherwise compromised, with the \u201csecond-class Iron Man\u201d suit, as Spidey calls it, doing all the work. But Clakre makes Rampage attack Spidey, and Angel is very upset, allowing Rampage to belt both heroes across the room. Spidey doesn\u2019t have time to figure out what\u2019s going on, and just clocks Angel to get him out of the way as Clarke sends him pawn after Spidey again. Our man thinks there\u2019s something disturbingly familiar about his armored foe. Clarke reveals he has a force field as Spidey tries to web his controls, and then Angel wakes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh my goodness. What a shocking revelation. I mean\u2026 come on. Spider-Man fought Bobby by himself back in ASM 93<\/a>, and downed him, Warren and the other X-Men at the same time in both X-Men 35<\/a> and MTU 4<\/a>. These two are the least dangerous of the original X-Men (At least until they decided Iceman was an Omega-level mutant in the 90s). Now I\u2019m supposed to worry Spider-Man can\u2019t beat Iceman with help from someone who knows him well? I do not! But I guess we\u2019ll see how they manage to get a whole issue out of this premise next time. Folks in the letter page are divided about Razorback (One person calls him even worse than Rampage, so he must\u2019ve loved this issue! That\u2019s funny). One positive letter and one negative both come from guys in Arkansas, either happy or sad to have him representing them. Can\u2019t please everybody, but I\u2019m surprised they pleased as many as they did this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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