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This is one of a handful I got dirt cheap at Heroes Con 2018. They had been wet, and so the guy was just trying to get rid of them. They were half off, and you can see this one\u2019s sticker was only $5 to start with. At the time, not yet someone foolishly buying tons of Spidey comics, I just thought of them as artifacts. I have never even opened them. Let\u2019s see if this thing\u2019s even readable. Jazzy John Romita has taken back the penciling job for awhile and kept the inking job, a rare thing in this era, as we check in with the grieving Gwen Stacy\u2026<\/p>\n

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Hey, this isn\u2019t too bad! Someone put comic boards inside the front and back covers, I guess to try to keep it from curling. Honestly, not bad. It doesn\u2019t even have a smell. For $2.50, I am satisfied. With the offer to move away on her mind, Gwen wants to believe Peter is worth staying in New York for, but even Peter isn\u2019t sure since she\u2019ll always hate his other life.<\/p>\n

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Not that I figured they would in a comic of this vintage, but no one\u2019s talking about how Gwen\u2019s going to pay for this place. Or sell it. Or anything. Peter trudges off into the night, feeling rotten. Super rotten.<\/p>\n

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Peter admitting he\u2019s hooked on the thrill of being Spider-Man is something you don\u2019t see too often. As Spidey swings off, we look in on Hobie Brown, aka The Prowler, and his beloved Mindy. She\u2019s looking through ads for houses they might buy when they get married, but Hobie\u2019s distracted. He\u2019s thinking about how Spider-Man had him wear his suit and show up at The Stacys\u2019 house awhile back, and now George Stacy is dead.<\/p>\n

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I just noticed this comic has no staples at all! This is a great angle, Hobie feeling like he’s been played. It makes sense. I’m not sure how much plotting Stan was doing vs. John at this point, but whoever it was, it’s a good development. Hobie suits up as The Prowler and heads out to get to the bottom of this. He decides to start his search at the Stacys\u2019 place. Meanwhile, the man he\u2019s looking for is having an existential crisis. He feels trapped in his Spider-Man identity, and decides on a course of action:<\/p>\n

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Well, this can\u2019t end well. Some cops see Spider-Man swing by and decide to follow him. When he gets to Gwen\u2019s place, she\u2019s just crying on the couch. It breaks his nerve, but he doesn\u2019t have much time to think about it, because The Prowler fires a warning shot at him.<\/p>\n

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Spidey tries to explain, but Prowler isn\u2019t having it, so Spidey just tries to lead him away from Gwen\u2019s so she won\u2019t get hurt. This leads him back toward those cops who were hunting him, and, now we got a real situation.<\/p>\n

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They fight up onto the roof of a building before smashing through a skylight into an elevator shaft. Spider-Man is still really trying to avoid all this, but it\u2019s not working.<\/p>\n

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Prowler almost doesn\u2019t manage to stop his fall in time. Spidey tries to web him but can\u2019t. As it is, he slams into the top of the elevator pretty hard, and Spider-Man sets out to get him to a hospital. First he dumps the Prowler costume in an incinerator (!) so no one will know who Hobie is, and then he\u2026 goes to a hospital, finds an empty room, puts Hobie in the bed, and then calls the hospital to tell them he\u2019s in there? Sure, that won\u2019t be hard for Hobie to explain or anything. Spidey also calls Mindy, who comes running.<\/p>\n

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It can. Somehow, in the space of the last few hours, Gwen has moved out and this lady has moved in. In the night! That\u2019s trying to find a place to live in New York for ya. The now terrified lady inside tells Spider-Man Gwen went to the airport. He swings for all he\u2019s worth, but you guessed it, Spider-fans:<\/p>\n

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If only poor Gwen had really stayed in London. And we\u2019re out. I always loved The Prowler\u2019s costume. Everyone talks about Todd McFarlane\u2019s Spawn being a Spider-Man knock off, but honestly, look at The Prowler. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a coincidence that the last thing McFarlane did for Marvel was a Prowler short in a Spectacular Spider-Man annual, one where his interpretation of the suit looked a lot more like Spawn. It was like a test run. I didn\u2019t actually realize Gwen\u2019s Uncle Arthur appeared in this time. His seemingly random introduction in the 90s was actually a re-introduction, I guess.<\/p>\n

In the letters, a guy writes in to let Stan & Co. know that the science of Spider-Man is nonsense, which is pretty funny. He explains how DNA works and says Peter couldn\u2019t be losing his powers in #86. Then he goes on to speculate that Pete\u2019s parents were exposed to radiation that produced a mutated offspring, and the spider bite catalyzed a change in him. He even talks about how spiders stick to walls with hooks in their feet and suggests this is why Peter can stick to walls in socks but not shoes. He did some pretty good work, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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