{"id":9165,"date":"2021-05-24T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2020-05-31T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T20:15:12","slug":"tac-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/05\/24\/tac-165\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 165"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Say, a regular comic. Feels like it\u2019s been a long time. Maybe The Arranger wishes it had been longer. Today\u2019s adventure, with line art by Sal Buscema \u201cand friends\u201d and colors by Renee Witterstatter and \u201cDell\u2019Orto,\u201d no first name given, begins in London, on a foggy night, as a mobster runs in terror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow, a person named Fogg\u2026 who turns into fog(g). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corr blimey and other such cliches! After killing that dude, Knight & Fogg here instantly switch to normal clothes and go have a drink. \u201cKnight\u201d is tired of killing his friends, and he\u2019s in luck, because \u201cFogg\u201d says their boss is loaning them to a guy in the US, and it\u2019s something to do with Spider-Man. Speaking of whom, he\u2019s swinging across town in a Buscema signature pose to reach The Arranger, who left a message for him care of Peter Parker at \u201cthe temporary offices of The Daily Bugle,\u201d and who is obviously terrified and tells him he thinks Kingpin wants him dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kinda spotlights how Kingpin\u2019s role has changed over the decades. In the 60s & 70s, he certainly would just try to beat Spider-Man to death, but now he’s got guys for that. Spider-Man swings away, thinking he\u2019s just avoided a setup (I feel like he\u2019s seen enough to know better, but whatever). He\u2019s meeting Mary Jane for dinner at JJJ\u2019s. That\u2019s pretty unusual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You know, this isn\u2019t something I would\u2019ve known before 2018, but this is the 2nd time they\u2019ve created a rift between Peter & Robbie in just a few years. Why? First Robbie was telling him his photos are bad and he should quit, and now this. It\u2019s weird. Not as weird as Peter being dressed like he was on the 60s TV show here, but weird. While he a& one of his oldest friends trade insults, The Arranger is so desperate he\u2019s begging Hammerhead & Chameleon for help by phone as the signature green fog(g) of Fogg appears outside. So he calls\u2026 The Jameson household, because he knows they\u2019re having dinner tonight (\u201cI pay people to know these things\u201d Reeeeally?) and demands to talk to Peter about a matter of life & death. Elsewhere in the apartment, Robbie is rehashing the whole Tombstone storyline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s the thing: It has been super obvious Joe knows Peter is Spider-Man so many times over the years. This same thing could\u2019ve been a way to bring that to the surface and create a more complex and unique situation between them instead of this dumb fight. At any rate, while The Arranger begs Peter to get Spider-Man, Fogg finally comes through the window. It must\u2019ve been several minutes. Maybe he likes the drama. Peter hears the chaos, realizes he was wrong and runs out of the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He shall arrange— no more! Fogg gets the drop on Spidey due to his weird powers, but Knight tells him their contract said they only kill Spider-Man if he gets in the way, which he didn\u2019t, so fighting him would be meaningless. He says this as he tosses Spidey out the window. But Fogg just really likes killing people, so he follows after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ouch! Cops arrive with comical speed, and a barely conscious Spider-Man tells them The Arranger has been killed and he\u2019s going after the killers. But he\u2019s pretty messed up and doesn\u2019t know much about his foes, and they use both against him \u2018til the cops come and they decide to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just up and headin\u2019 to London. How does he afford his jetset lifestyle? I am interested to note Buscema explicitly drawing John Romita, Jr.\u2019s Kingpin on that last page, no doubt about it. Not copying him, just using his take, since he\u2019s the current DD artist, one assumes. How is \u201cOswald P. Silkworth\u201d know to that reporter as \u201cThe Arranger\u201d if Kingpin is able to pretend he\u2019s a legit businessman? Surely people know he works for Kingpin. That whole thing is weird to me. Not as weird as this letter, tho:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Was this a lame attempt to create a new villain or something? I dunno. The letter col also lets us know Sal was feeling sick, so Stan Drake, Andy Mushynsky, Jack Abel, Mike Manley, Tom Morgan, Al Milgrom AND Keith Williams all provided finishes over his breakdowns this month. Ol\u2019 Sal is such a workhorse. He never missed an issue. Even tho he only did breakdowns this month, his hand is unmistakable on every page, and all while sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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