{"id":161,"date":"2023-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=161"},"modified":"2021-11-07T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T23:41:11","slug":"mtu-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/01\/24\/mtu-72\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 072"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(One of 77) MTU 71 said that next issue would feature Spider-Man and Daredevil fighting The Owl, but that\u2019s actually MTU 73. I guess the schedule was just all out of whack at this point. Bubt they clearly needed a fill-in, and nothing says \u201cfill-in or inventory story\u201d like Bill Mantlo, this time accompanied by Jim Mooney inking himself. The Byrne cover is a surprise. Strange circumstances afoot. Anyway, Spider-Man has just stumbled upon some dudes stealing a van full of furs as we get rolling. The goons helpfully tell us their guns are equipped with drugged \u201cmercy bullets\u201d so that Spidey can get shot as they try to escape and not die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The drug hits him immediately, but he manages to flip their van. By the time they come out, though, he\u2019s in no shape for superheroing. And that\u2019s where the boss comes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, Whiplash. Last seen on the blog, due to our out of order nature, in the far future MTU 145<\/a>. You may know him as one of two villains mashed up into the villain of Iron Man 2. But I think you\u2019ll agree this is a very different presentation than that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ah, an artist with the lash. I\u2019m not sure you can get that in a gallery. Every single cop in a Bill Mantlo comic is Irish. Our maestro has to run for it before he can kill Spider-Man, who tags him with a spider tracer and passes out. He awakes in a police lab to the faces of his friend and ours, Police Captain Jean DeWolff, some cops, and\u2026 Iron Man! Iron Man is, of course, Whiplash\u2019s regular dance partner. Well, sort of. A caption says they haven\u2019t fought since Tales of Suspense 99, and that was a looooong time ago, even for this comic. The doctors here helped get the drugs out of Spidey\u2019s system and patch him up while DeWolff called in a Whiplash expert. Which, as we saw back in MTU 50<\/a>, isn\u2019t as random as it seems, since Mantlo took DeWolff to Iron Man\u2019s book for awhile. Iron Man mentions Whiplash worked for The Maggia when they fought, so that\u2019s a cue to cut to a mansion in New Jersey, where Whiplash reports to his boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They don\u2019t have time to fight, because Jean DeWolff has driven Spider-Man and Iron Man to the mansion in her antique hot rod! She\u2019s still got it, but how is this the most efficient way to get there?? Spidey & IM split up to make their way into the mansion, telling DeWolff to wait in the car since she has no jurisdiction in Jersey, but Jean has heard some rumors about the Maggia that make her want to do her own investigation. Iron Man smashes through a window into \u201cThe Murder-Maze,\u201d  a hall of mirrors with Whiplash in it. They had this just laying around? I know you won\u2019t believe this, but it turns out some mirrors aren\u2019t enough to stop Iron Man from grabbing the one whip attacking him and yanking Whiplash into the open. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the house, Spider-Man starts hallucinating spiders and giant snakes, and I briefly worry Mysterio is here, because he\u2019s the worst, but no. We learn who Whiplash\u2019s boss is, and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wraith! He\u2019s back! Man, last time we saw him, he was getting killed trying to avenge Jean\u2019s death in ASM 278<\/a>, but now we\u2019re back to this. He\u2019s still a coldblooded one in this period. He hypnotizes Jean into wanting to shoot herself in the head. He then makes Spidey go flying across the room\u2026 right through the wall into \u201cThe Murder-Maze.\u201d This gives Iron Man a great distraction in his fight with Whiplash, and surprises Wraith enough that he drops his control over Jean.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She may be an ordinary cop (With an odd fashion sense), but Jean DeWolff is one of the baddest women in the Marvel Universe. She gets through to her brother, but that doesn\u2019t actually work out too well, as Whiplash, uh, whiplashes her, sending Iron Man into a rage. But now, Brian\u2019s on the good guy\u2019s team, and he wants first dibs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kind of a heavy last panel, there. And for a 2nd issue in a row, we\u2019re told Daredevil & The Owl will be in the next issue. And this time, it\u2019s true! But what about Big M? The mysterious Maggia boss with the name that sounds like he should be a forgotten McDonalds character? I guess he wasn\u2019t back in the picture yet. But he\u2019d show up just a few months from now in the already covered TAC 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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