{"id":266,"date":"2023-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=266"},"modified":"2021-11-07T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:48:52","slug":"mtu-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/01\/17\/mtu-70\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 070"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of 77. I\u2019ma keep it real witchu, chief: I do not expect to agree with that caption! Let\u2019s have a look at what was going on in some other Marvel comics in June of 1978\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Enforcers? Arcade? Captain America fighting The Lincoln Memorial?<\/i> Maybe I spoke too soon. At least Byrne is back in the hands of a seasoned inker here, Tony DeZuniga. The Living Monolith is now Stay Puft Marshmallow Manning his way around New York with Spidey in hand.\u00a0Spidey webs his eyes to try to give people on the street time to escape, but that just makes him mad, and he throws our man as hard as he can. He\u2019s pretty much definitely going to die at this speed, but lucky for him\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, Thor is making up for lost time after he didn\u2019t manage to get involved in this caper last issue. But after setting Spidey down to recuperate and fill him in on the details, Thor flies off to just get swatted by the big baddie himself. Meanwhile, Spidey realizes that if he can get Havok out of the case, the fight is over, so he tells Thor to smash it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ll tell ya one thing about this issue: \u201cBenighted simpleton\u201d is going into rotation for me. \u201cBenighted simpleton, I ordered a number one, not a number five!\u201d (I’m just kidding, being rude to service industry workers makes you an awful person) But I thought the point of the case keeping him alive was to\u2026 help\u2026 The Living Pharaoh\u2026 somehow. Ok, I\u2019ve actually already forgotten what they said last issue. Wasn\u2019t he a \u201cliving battery\u201d or something? Many things are \u201cliving\u201d here. But if that was true, how is killing him a good thing? I wonder if Claremont forgot about that between issues. Anyway, Spidey ends up going for a ride on Thor\u2019s hammer, forcing Thor to catch him as the hammer returns to him. Thor gets to work on the Monolith out in the river, whipping up a hurricane, while Spider-Man\u2026 swings to the top of the Empire State Building to watch the fight through an old couple\u2019s binoculars. No, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An outstanding achievement in comics art, indeed! Spidey finally has the idea to do what he should\u2019ve from the beginning, though: free Havok. So he whups the Monolith\u2019s goons as they\u2019re trying to load Havok into a van and begins disarming the bomb as the battle between Thor and the Monolith rages. In short order, he succeeds, Havok wakes up, and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWeb-hurler\u201d is awkward, Thor, come on. Kind of a random ending, but I do like it when the situation is such that Spider-Man can\u2019t possibly affect the physical battle, but instead saves the day on the sidelines. And that\u2019s that. We, of course, saw a version of The Living Pharoah in Sensational 19<\/a> & 20<\/a>. This is Chris Claremont & John Byrne\u2019s last regular issue on Team-Up. Since becoming a reprint title, X-Men only published 6 issues a year. Even after the new X-Men debuted and the title began gaining fans and momentum, it remained bi-monthly. Which is what allowed Claremont and Byrne to team up on Iron Fist and this and what have you. But X-Men finally returning to 12 issues a year nixed that. I think it\u2019s kind of interesting that those 2, who became one of comics\u2019 all-time most famous duos due to the runaway success of their X-Men, had all these far less well remembered runs together, too. You\u2019d think their other titles together, while not as groundbreaking as X-Men, would still be pretty sought after just by people who liked their work together, but I never knew they had an extended run together on Team-Up before starting this blog. Anyway! Next up: The final ASM of this block, and therefore the final 70s ASM I\u2019ll ever read for this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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