{"id":3451,"date":"2020-03-19T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2019-06-03T00:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T04:28:41","slug":"tac-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/03\/19\/tac-73\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 073"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This cover reminds me of TAC 51. Not really the same, but both have Spidey throwing down in space. As is the case surprisingly often, TAC has decided to just go off on its own for awhile, leaving little to no space for the other titles to occur, so it\u2019s bunched up here for awhile. It\u2019s chaos from page one in this one.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa! This is entirely too fast! Al Milgrom takes the penciling job as this crazy scene unfolds.
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This is a lot of info about poor Deb all of a sudden. Can you imagine this scene in real life? Some random schmuck comes to your house before the sun comes up and dramatically accuses you of being Spider-Man? And he\u2019s right? <\/em>But, don\u2019t worry, he doesn\u2019t mean it. And he\u2019s trying to tell us Deb is the one who has mental problems? He\u2019s barely out the door when the phone rings. It\u2019s Robbie at The Bugle, offering Pete the job to go photograph Boomerang appearing before the grand jury after being caught by Spidey in TAC 67. Peter thinks this will help him \u201cget his mind off Deb Whitman\u2019s problems\u201d as he suits up as Spidey and swings away. Real compassionate guy, our man. As the sun comes up, noted Daredevil foe The Owl tells his goons to bring him Boomerang, so that\u2019ll get us to the fight on the cover, I guess. Spidey arrives at the courthouse, internal monologuing how grand juries work in case you don\u2019t know, and he runs in to Ben Urich, also there to cover Boomerang. Peter\u2019s Spider Sense is set off by 3 obvious goons in the lobby, while inside the courtroom\u2026
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DA Tower tattles Boomerang by saying he\u2019ll never be as good as Bullseye, and then Boomerang says he\u2019s every bit as good as Bullseye and throws the pen he\u2019s been toying with (Who in the world let him have that?), bouncing it all over the room and hitting Tower and one of the guards with it.
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\u201cI am a master of precision throwing\u201d is a totally natural sentence you can totally hear someone saying. You ever play the original Resident Evil, with its famously bad dialogue and voice acting? \u201cJill, you should take this lockpick, since you are the MASTER of unlocking!\u201d That\u2019s what this sounds like. Boomerang takes the judge hostage and a guy fleeing the courtroom says he\u2019s escaping, prompting Peter Parker to say, out loud, \u201cNot if I can help it!\u201d as he ducks into the men\u2019s room, which is super smart of him, and thus\u2026
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I completely reject this page. He\u2019d need superhuman strength to do this, he doesn\u2019t have any; He\u2019s just a master of precision throwing. Boomerang then finds himself in a fistfight with Spidey, and that lasts about 3 seconds, as it should. Spidey webs him back into his chair and tells the assembled they can continue their hearing, but most of them are as scared of him as they are of Fred, so he dejectedly leaves. The usual hero\u2019s welcome. As he switches to Peter Parker and retrieves his camera, the 3 goons set off his danger sense again, so he puts a tracer in one of their jackets, and hours later, follows that tracer to the American Museum of Natural History, where he finds an unconscious security guard, and that leads him to The Owl, lording it over his goons. This is his base? A very popular museum? What sense does that make? He\u2019s sitting on a trapeze hanging from the ceiling in some kind of bird exhibit, this is ridiculous.
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Owl\u2019s stunned whining there is pretty funny. A jobber like him is no match for Doc Ock. Spidey\u2019s worried this could ignite some kinda gang war, though, so he dives in, hoping to stop it here. Owl has a small army of goons, Doc Ock has a small army of goons, and they declare a truce to let all of them try to kill Spider-Man.
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Spidey realizes this situation isn\u2019t really in his favor and ducks out, getting them all to chase him into the planetarium. He\u2019s noted they maneuver just fine in the dark, and must have infrared goggles on, so he fires up the planetarium to even the odds.
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Ah, yes, the famous nightwinds inside the Hayden Planetarium. Owl attacks Spider-Man, who once again talks about his Spider Sense even though Roger Stern is desperately trying to make it a secret, while something pretty funny happens right outside:
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Why did he say that part out loud? Like any reasonable person, Spidey\u2019s far more worried about Doc Ock than The Owl, so he hides in a dinosaur skeleton to surprise The Owl and finish him quickly, but that plan doesn\u2019t really work, and both The Owl and Doc Ock escape. Spidey\u2019s left with nothing to do but go home.
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Seems like Peter\u2019s gonna do the right thing after all, huh? Well\u2026 don\u2019t get too excited…
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