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Alright, part two! I\u2019ma keep it real witchu, chief: I do not like that cover. Never did! I think it\u2019s considered an iconic Frank Miller cover, but it\u2019s like\u2026 why is Spider-Man a giant? Why is his crotch glowing? Why have you chosen a shading technique that makes it look like Spider-Man is balding and his hair is wet? Who thought this was a good idea? This is way off track.Ed Hannigan jumps in on pencils as the Beetle attacks! Spider-Man is battered and out of it, but he\u2019s irritated enough to keep fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goofy Gibbon ruminates on how stupid it was to come here all the way from Florida to get beat up (They make TV shows in Florida in the Marvel Universe?), while his buddies up in the helicopter are ecstatic. Between Gibbon gettin\u2019 got and now Beetle showing up, this has been the chance of a lifetime for them. Back at the fight, Spidey begins to notice The Beetle seems to be predicting his moves, which sounds crazy to him. And it is crazy, but apparently the floppy disk in Beetle\u2019s suit is really doing its thing. So, Spidey leaves himself open for a shot to see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The delirious Gibbon says he was trying to help. Spidey catches him and then toss him on a roof, and thus can\u2019t avoid getting zapped. He goes into evasive maneuvers, but he\u2019s tired, and eventually another shot connects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beetle thinks he can lure Spiey back into battle by zapping and kidnapping The Gibbon, having seen Spidey try to save him, but Spider-Man only just popped up out of a manhole, and barely catches a glimpse of them flying away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some days it\u2019s just no fun being a superhero. Peter\u2019s finishing up his shower as the ridiculous Coach Barnstorm from a few issues back of Marvel Team-Up bursts in, angry that he\u2019s using the showers after flunking that basketball player. Peter has no time for that, tells him he doesn\u2019t own the facilities and leaves. As he leaves, he walks by someone setting off his Spider Sense. But it’s… Greg Salinger? Of course, due to the out-of-order nature of this blog, we know why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIFF RIFKIN is watching TV, where a special news bulletin informs the public that Martin Blank, aka The Gibbon, was kidnapped earlier by The Beetle, before the reporter is handed an update saying The Beetle has challenged Spider-Man to meet him in an hour, or he\u2019ll kill The Gibbon. Uh-oh. Time to ditch Deb again. She thinks about he he seemed upset, and it\u2019s probably because BIFF was there, and how Peter is nice but BIFF is dependable. Soon, Spider-Man has made it to The Kreller Building, where Beetle wanted him to go, and it\u2019s surrounded by news vans. And on the roof, he finds a gang of cops being managed by Spidey\u2019s old not-pal, Lt. Keating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty ridiculous! The collapsing roof is a revolving door, as it happens, and on the other side, we find The Beetle and The Gibbon, the latter trussed up in one of those X-shaped crucifixions that seem to happen a lot in comics. Beetle says he planned all this weeks ago. I guess that\u2019s explanation enough for the crazy roof gimmick. The battle is joined. Spider-Man tries to free The Gibbon, but is kept away by The Beetle\u2019s zaps. He finally decides he\u2019s just got to go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Down on the ground, the news people are noticing they can\u2019t get a signal to go live on the air. Back up on the roof, Spider-Man has used the chance to escape and free The Gibbon before The Beetle shows back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice! Spidey and Beetle get into actual fist fighting, and Spider-Man breaks one of the horns off his helmet\u2026 which turns out to be \u201cthe focusing point of his power,\u201d hitting both of them with a huge zap and letting the news crews below start broadcasting again. Spidey gets one last big punch in, and that\u2019s all he\u2019s got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Parker just can\u2019t win. There follows a re-telling of Spider-Man\u2019s origin\u2026 again\u2026 by Stern ,Greg LaRoque & Bob Wiacek. Stern expands it slightly, adds a couple extra beats, but it\u2019s so similar to the original I don\u2019t know why they didn\u2019t just reprint it. LaRoque & Wiacek even do their best Ditko impression, and reproduce some panels almost exactly. Retellings of the origin were sort of popular back before trades were easy to get, but still, it seems like a lot of wasted effort. And that\u2019s it for the big anniversary issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, part two! I\u2019ma keep it real witchu, chief: I do not like that cover. Never did! I think it\u2019s considered an iconic Frank Miller cover, but it\u2019s like\u2026 why is Spider-Man…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[33,157,261,815,154,305,323,822,18,215,117,121,2,50],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-beetle","tag-biff-riffkin","tag-bob-wiacek","tag-coach-barnstorm","tag-deb-whitman","tag-ed-hannigan","tag-greg-larocque","tag-greg-salinger","tag-jim-mooney","tag-lt-keating","tag-roger-stern","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-the-gibbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}