{"id":7966,"date":"2019-07-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2020-03-01T21:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T01:49:38","slug":"tac-062","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/10\/tac-062\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 062"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This looks like a weird one. Now that Roger Stern has moved over to ASM, Bill Mantlo has taken over TAC. Again. He wrote most of the first 40 issues of the book, so when they needed someone to take over, I guess they didn\u2019t look far. He\u2019s settling in for more than 2 more years at the helm of the title. Ed Hannigan & Jim Mooney provide the art. Gold Bug, who I am not at all familiar with, has approached The Maggia about a profit sharing partnership. They send him to go do\u2026 something at the ESU Science Lab as a test. Turns out, Peter Parker is having a bunch of gold delivered to ESU for an experiment. He documents the delivery with his camera as Spider-Man while the grad school cast wonders where he is. Does seem like he should be down there! After Dr. Sloan complains to Deb Whitman about him always being late, he finally decides to show up to his own experiment.
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He could\u2019ve at least talked about his photographer job since that\u2019s the actual reason he\u2019s late, but why\u2019d he do that at all? Is him doing a science project really news? Meanwhile: Calm down, Phil, jeez! Poor Deb Whitman sits at her desk thinking about how Peter is too smart for her and would reject her, which is just\u2026 classic Deb\u2026 as Dr. Sloan goes to help Peter with his experiment.
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\u201cI can\u2019t afford to be a supervillain, but giving the mob 80% of what I steal ought to help!\u201d Supervillains are so dumb. Goldbug is beginning to seem like an evil parody of Steve Ditko\u2019s Blue Beetle. Flying around in a bug-themed spaceship is a pretty unique gimmick, but it\u2019s been done. He looks a lot like Blue Beetle, too, now that I think about it. Back in the lab, phase one of the experiment is complete. The gold is all irradiated, and now it\u2019s time to see how much radiation it absorbs. Doc Sloan leaves Peter to finish alone. Poor Deb Whitman is out in the lobby trying to read physics books and feeling dumb when Goldbug bursts into the lab. He cut a big hole in the ceiling, and the debris fell on Peter, unable to get to safety in time due to the radiation suit. Goldbug uses his gold-gun to spray gold on the incoming security guards, encasing them in gold. Yeah, no wonder he can\u2019t afford his bit. Then Deb runs in and gets golded up, too!
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I\u2019m always here for stories where Peter\u2019s scientific skills help him in his super life, but the \u201cscience\u201d here is pretty ridiculous. After the cops are done questioning him, Peter switches to Spider-Man and hunts down his tracer. Goldbug is in a warehouse thinking about how he loves gold so much he wishes he could eat it when The Maggia show up, closely followed by Spider-Man. He incapacitates the guards left on the door outside and heads in.
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Spidey is, of course, trying to save them all from radiation poisoning, but they don\u2019t give him a chance to explain, so it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. But not for long, because Goldbug is terrible at this. Soon enough, Spidey\u2019s outmaneuvered him and pulled his gloves off to show him his mistake.
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What a grim fate for Goldbug. Just kidding, you know he survived. They always do, even if the writer thinks they didn\u2019t. This was a rocky issue. Not saving space to see what happens with the gang at school seems like a mistake. Ah, well.
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