{"id":7051,"date":"2019-05-15T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2022-07-31T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T19:01:47","slug":"tac-024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/05\/15\/tac-024\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I started this thing as \u201cAll The Spider-Mans I Have\u201d with the implicit idea that I don\u2019t have all of them. But since then, I\u2019ve been slowly accumulating more and more and\u2026 It\u2019s getting to a point where the only ones I don\u2019t have from the volume 1 era are gonna be the obscenely expensive old ASMs. And even some of those have miraculously made it into my hands. As of this writing, much, much later than last post, I\u2019ve got every issue of Team-Up Spider-Man appears in, and (by accident) almost all the ones he doesn\u2019t. And as I have been closing the gaps, I\u2019ve wound up getting books I didn\u2019t even necessarily want out of a completist impulse. Like this one. Who cares about The Hypno-Hustler? This isn\u2019t going to be a good comic, or an important comic. I had every intention of skipping this one. And now I have it. So\u2026 here we go. As we were warned last issue, this one is called \u201cSpider-Man Night Fever.\u201d How timely. Ugh. Frank Springer hops in the always rotating artist\u2019s chair as both penciler and inker. Springer\u2019s more cartoony style is not really the best fit for the Marvel heroes, and this isn\u2019t his last appearance. On the subway, Peter Parker rides home from visiting Aunt May when some young toughs decide to mug a lady. 
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You know, Springer isn\u2019t bad, per se, and I like his inky brush work here, actually, but this stuff is a little weird looking in a Spider-Man comic. Anyway, when the lights come on, Peter is gone, and the goons are all webbed to the ceiling. How could they have ID\u2019d him, really? Is Peter Parker a household name? At any rate, Peter\u2019s on his way out of the subway recapping still more plot points from ASM as he walks by a poster for tonight\u2019s concert by\u2026 The Hypno-Hustler. Yer really advertising with your villain name, dude? Really? Peter\u2019s eager to go home and study, thinking about how his life seems out of control, but tonight he\u2019s going to focus. But, of course, he finds his apartment full of the supporting cast, intent on taking him out to celebrate his \u201cun-graduation.\u201d Bet I can guess where they\u2019re headed!
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A regular John Travola. Meanwhile, on the George Washington Bridge, a truck marked \u201cNuclear Materials\u201d is met by protesters blocking its path, saying \u201cNo nukes in New York!\u201d The truck turns around, and is attacked by Maggia goons who steal its plutonium cargo. Well, that can\u2019t be good!
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I feel like Mantlo is actively refusing to go with the flow on the MJ situation. Wolfman clearly wanted her out of the book, but Mantlo has her in this title almost every month in some capacity. Also, why do none of them drink? It\u2019s long-established that Peter doesn\u2019t, but nobody in this whole gang is into a drink? That seems improbable. Ah, well. Time to meet our idiot villain for the month:
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It\u2019s worse than I imagined! Oh, this is so dumb. Is it worse than The Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime? Same gimmick, different venue. I guess not. Maybe so! I don\u2019t know. Hard to say. But the randomness of his back-up singers also having a superpower AND being in on it really puts this over the top. Sooooo, as you can guess, the Hypno-Hustler mesmerises everyone but Peter. As you could never guess in a million years, because it\u2019s so stupid, he literally falls out of his clothes and into his Spider-Man gear\u2026
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… as HH and the ladies begin robbing all the patrons, who all produce their valuables to be taken on command. Then Spidey shows up.
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I\u2019m with Spidey, how does this doof have so many bits of business? None of them seem to mean much to our hero, though, as he keeps dodging everything. HH tries to get the girls to help hypnotize Spidey, but of course, he can\u2019t hear them, so that doesn\u2019t do anything. Then he rips the headphones off The Hypno-Hustler\u2019s ears, leaving him open to the song of his own accomplices, who\u2026 just keep on singing. Shouldn\u2019t they, like, notice?
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What?? So HH hypnotized the girls into hypnotizing everyone else?? Why was this so convoluted? And boy, did they not do a good job explaining that before now. Sheesh. What a mess. And look, next issue\u2019s title is even worse than this one. But that issue begins a surprisingly long story with much more importance to the Spidey saga than this, and we\u2019ll have a look at it\u2026 later.
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