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Welcome back to another edition of Sergei Kravinoff, the Spectacular Spider-Man. You notice how Mike Zeck has been drawing the eyes on the Spidey mask enormous? You know how Todd McFarlane gets credit for inventing that even though he hasn\u2019t drawn Spider-Man yet by this point? I\u2019m just saying. The Spectacular Spider-Hunter kicks this issue off by attacking some guys in a warehouse.
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As the cops rush in, he skitters off, babbling in his narration about how the police secretly worship him. The cops exposit that Spider-Man has put fifteen people in the hospital before one of them discovers that guy with the neck pull is dead. I would say this will be bad for Spider-Man\u2019s reputation, but he\u2019s dead, so it doesn\u2019t matter. Up on a roof, Kraven thinks he\u2019s proven himself superior to Spider-Man in every way but one. Cut to the grave again. Still nothing going on out there. Cut to Vermin grabbing another woman off the street.
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Vermin tosses one of the cops into the gutter so his army of rats can emerge and swarm and I guess eat him, in probably the creepiest scene ever in a Spider-Man comic, and then the other cop manages to shoot Vermin in the side. She orders him to get the rats off her partner, and he does, but he also thinks the cop reminds him of someone.
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Mm hmm. Naturally. Elsewhere, an increasingly desperate Mary Jane shows up at Joe Robertson\u2019s house in the night, looking like crap, before realizing she can\u2019t actually talk to him about this.
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I would like to ask every major Spider-Man writer if they think Joe Robertson knows Peter is Spider-Man. I bet most or even all of them would say yes. Robbie\u2019s not dumb, and he\u2019s had a long time being up close and personal with both of them. But he\u2019s also always been like a father to Peter, and would never betray his secret, probably not even to him. Speaking of whom, sure are a lot of spiders on that grave. SYMBOLISM OR SOMETHING.  Meanwhile, Kraven is toying with a rat in a cage.
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This is immensely stupid, but he did pull a similar mindcontrol gag on The Gibbon way back when<\/a>, so I guess there\u2019s a precedent. Some bits of continuity deserve to be swept under the rug, and I kinda think Kraven\u2019s mindcontrol juice is one of them. To no one\u2019s delight, Kraven removes all his clothes again, and looks like he\u2019s gonna jump out the window like that to go fight Vermin, but when we cut to Vermin waking from sleep in the sewer as he hears someone approaching, it is thankfully Spider-Man. I mean, it\u2019s Kraven-as-Spider-Man, but that\u2019s better than naked Kraven.
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Again, the art team is nailing it. That last panel is something. Then it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. It\u2019s a brutal battle, too, both parties fighting to kill. But Kraven proves too much for Vermin in the end.
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Hang on, what\u2019s that bump at the grave? Spiders don\u2019t do that. Spider-Hunter emerges from the sewers carrying Vermin\u2019s unconscious body, and then\u2026
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Ok, so maybe he\u2019s not dead. Maybe he\u2019s a zombie now. Maybe he\u2019s an actual spider man. Would that be any sillier than what has preceded it? You know he\u2019s not, though. Tune in next time, when Spider-Man actually appears in a Spider-Man comic.
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