{"id":255,"date":"2023-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=255"},"modified":"2021-11-07T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:22:24","slug":"mtu-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/01\/12\/mtu-67\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 067"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Weird application of zip-a-tone on Spidey\u2019s head. Tigra with black hair is kind of jarring. And it\u2019s a Kraven story, so this\u2019ll be fun. Just kidding! This is another one I read years ago, when I was just buying old comics but hadn\u2019t started the blog yet. And like any Kraven story, it\u2019s terrible, so it\u2019s not exciting to revisit, but here we are. Same team as the last few issues as Spider-Man is swinging around town to clear his head after a long night of studying when he notices a guy on a roof watching him. He swings around to sneak up on the guy, but\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Page 3 and this comic is already immensely goofy. That\u2019s how it goes with Kraven. They do some fighting as Spider-Man thinks Kraven seems far faster & stronger since their last encounter in TAC 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man dead on page 7 of some random issue of MTU. Who would\u2019ve thought? He wakes less dead than advertised, in Kraven\u2019s as-yet unidentified lair, and finds Tigra at Kraven\u2019s side. Have we seen her before? Oh yeah, MTU 125<\/a>. And also MTU 8<\/a>, when she was The Cat, in the suit now worn by Hellcat, which isn\u2019t confusing at all. I don\u2019t actually know how Greer Nelson went from being The Cat to a literal catwoman, and I still haven\u2019t looked it up. But she\u2019s here now, and you can predict what you get from putting a superhero whose whole costume is a bikini in a comic by one of the medium\u2019s horniest artists. She is under Kraven\u2019s control. Spider-Man wants to know why he\u2019s still alive and chained up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Famous for honorably cheating in every fight they\u2019ve ever had, Kraven is. How is trying to make Spider-Man kill an innocent woman and\/or be killed by her his \u201chonorable vengeance?\u201d Kraven sucks so bad. Spidey manages to snap one of his chains, and wraps the other around Tigra\u2019s collar, whipping her across the room and somehow not, you know, breaking her neck. That doesn\u2019t even slow her down, tho, and as Spider-Man\u2019s 2nd chain snaps, she tackles him right into the kind of hard to understand rectangle of fire on the ground. He rolls them out of it, but he\u2019s starting to worry he\u2019ll have a hard time ending this without hurting her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That was easy. You\u2019d think he woulda used the goofy mind control he used to control The Gibbon back in ASM 112<\/a>. Tigra wants to kill him, pretty justifiably, but he gases her and scampers off, leaving her to cough a little and then tell Spider-Man how she got into this mess. Tigra was the last hero to fight him, in her brief starring run in a book called Marvel Chillers, but when he broke out of jail, she was working with the FF. She eventually tracked him down, but he got the drop on her and put the collar on her, saying she would be his \u201cwilling slave,\u201d which is plenty creepy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Super honorable! As Spidey and Tigra dodge and jump their way through a JUNGLE STAMPEDE IN NEW JERSEY, Kraven is stunned by how resilient they are. Kraven turns tail a 2nd time in one issue, but Tigra tackles him to the ground. Unfortunately for her, he\u2019s got still more gimmicks crafted with her in mind, and some kind of sonic weapon that overwhelms her. Lucky for Tigra\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WHOU-U-UFF, everybody! Another dumb Kraven adventure comes to a deservedly anticlamactic end. Kraven said something about \u201cTigra and her Cat People\u201d that finally made me look her up. Turns out the lady who gave her the powers of The Cat was also a member of a secret race of Cat People, and they eventually turned her into one of them. Ooooooohkaaaaaaay. Her appearance in MTU 8 was only The Cat\u2019s 4th appearance anywhere. The next issue of her solo title was its last, and her next comic was when she became Tigra. Well, now I know. Next time: Swamp stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weird application of zip-a-tone on Spidey\u2019s head. Tigra with black hair is kind of jarring. And it\u2019s a Kraven story, so this\u2019ll be fun. Just kidding! This is another one I read…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,562,180,45,71,2,147],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-claremont","tag-dave-hunt","tag-john-byrne","tag-kraven-the-hunter","tag-marvel-team-up","tag-spider-man","tag-tigra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15795,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/15795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}