{"id":4355,"date":"2020-04-23T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2019-09-17T00:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T04:08:31","slug":"asm-306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/04\/23\/asm-306\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 306"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A not-so-subtle homage to the cover of Action Comics #1 is an unusual way for a Spider-Man comic to get going. This one opens with Spider-Man in a really weird position, and for once I don\u2019t mean a questionable McFarlane panel:
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What\u2026 is happening here? Where are we? He\u2019s apparently webbed up 2 goons\u2026 are they in a police station? Spidey doesn\u2019t usually do home delivery of his crooks. As he swings off, Spidey thinks he just threw a fit because he\u2019s jealous… of himself. McFarlane hits what will be one of his stock Spidey poses as Spidey thinks about his situation:
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As Spidey switches to his normal clothes, we meet one Buck Mitty, recently released from prison and super eager to get back to his criminal ways as Humbug. I am pretty sure this comic is the entirety of my exposure to and knowledge of this guy. Then we\u2019re back with Peter, who\u2019s come up with a flower for Mary Jane. But then there\u2019s a knock on the door and it\u2019s Jonathan Caesar, saying he wants to welcome MJ back from LA\u2026
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If yer thinkin\u2019 this guys seems super creepy, well, you are correct. What\u2019s up with MJ\u2019s hair suddenly being a way more orange red? You\u2019d expect this to mean there\u2019s a new colorist, but nope, it\u2019s Bob Sharen, same as it\u2019s been for awhile. Weird. Later in the night, things are about to get complicated\u2026
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While Felicia hung around as a presence in the books after their break-up for awhile, she\u2019s not been seen in over a year. She has no idea Peter is married now. She thinks her Spider must have moved out because he couldn\u2019t stand a place full of memories of her, and he must still love her, so she has to find him. You may think this doesn\u2019t bode well for the future, but  you have no idea. But that\u2019s for later. We jump ahead to Peter\u2019s tour stop in Cleveland. Beforehand, a guy asks for an autograph, saying he\u2019s got to leave early. He\u2019s got a bag of comics he\u2019s going to sell at a convention. Peter recognizes one from his youth, but then it\u2019s show time. And then\u2026
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Todd just put a DC comic in there. Really pushing it lately. I do believe that thumbs up guy is meant to be Spider-editor Jim Salicrup. Meanwhile, in Chicago, someone named Roland Carson barges into the office of someone called William Dukane and tells Dukane he\u2019ll be taking his place. Dukane objects, calling it a hostile takeover, but then this happens:
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Whaaaat? But, hang on, I\u2019m stepping on Humbug\u2019s big intro\u2026
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Hey, I have WEB 19 now! I\u2019m gonna learn all about this weirdo someday, I guess. He has just accidentally blown open the door to a girls\u2019 locker room. He runs off in terror, realizing he was never too familiar with the school\u2019s layout and deciding to try again later. Wah wah. Back in Manhattan, Peter & MJ have Aunt May visiting, but there\u2019s that party Jonathan Caesar invited them to, so Aunt May says she needs to go. She just stopped by\u2026.
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(Kinda fun that Peter\u2019s old Patrick Nagel print made it to the new place) Good instinct about Caesar, Peter. Back at ESU, Humbug is breaking into the physics building, which doesn\u2019t seem like it will help his quest to steal artwork, but that doesn\u2019t matter, because now he\u2019s gonna steal superconductive ceramics from the lab here and sell that. Ok, sure, improvising. But as he uses his amplified insect recordings to smash through things\u2026
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Spidey webs Humbug to keep him from dying, but as a campus police roll up, Humbug is able to ignite the gas tank of their car, forcing Spidey to grab the whole car and douse it in a fountain. Just like on the cover! Humbug has used the distraction to return to his old lab, where a student provides him a hostage when Spidey shows up. So Spidey plays on Humbug\u2019s love of, er, bugs\u2026
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I mean, you saw that coming, right? The faceswap thing was a giveaway in a Spider-Man comic. So Spidey will fight him in Chicago! But what about this creepy Caesar guy? You\u2019ll have to come back next time to learn more. In the letter page, Jim Salicrup says the cover homage is a tribute to Superman in honor of his 50th birthday. Not as random as it seemed.
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