Descrizione
Cod.TF
LO STUPEFACENTE UOMO RAGNO
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN
SERIE CRONOLOGICA DELL’ EDITORIALE CORNO, LA MAGNIFICA COLLANA IN FORMATO GIGANTE DI GENIALISSIMO ED ESCLUSIVO BRAND TUTTO NOSTRANO CHE IL MONDO INTERO ANCOR OGGI CI INVIDIA
ALBO GIGANTE TUTTO A COLORI DEL 1976
all’ interno 4 episodi (la conclusione di quello rimasto in sospeso nel numero precedente , 2 completi , e la prima parte di un altro che si concluderà nell’ albo successivo)
CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME
La COVER di questo numero è tratta dall’ albo americano MARVEL TALES # 40 del 1972 che però ristampava un’ altra storia
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“Turning Point” / LA MINACCIA DEL DR. OCTOPUS ! (2a parte)
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Locations:
- Philadelphia (known as the City of Brotherly Love)
Items:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Betty blames Spider-Man for her brother’s death, and Spider-Man battles
Dr. Octopus around the ship, but Octopus manages to escape. The police
arrive and arrest Blackie and his gang. Later, having changed back to
Peter Parker, he learns from Betty that she hopes to never see
Spider-Man again because she couldn’t bear being reminded of her
brother’s death. This hampers Peter’s plans of revealing his secret
identity to her.
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“Unmasked By Doctor Octopus!” / SMASCHERATO DAL DOTTOR OCTOPUS
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Featured Characters:
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Other Characters:
- Dr. Bromwell
- Peter Parker’s high school classmates
- New York policemen
- Betty Brant’s replacement
Locations:
- United States of America
- New York City
- Aunt May’s House
- Midtown High School
- Daily Bugle Building
- Coney Island (First appearance)
- New York City
Items:
- Spider-Man’s Web-Shooters
- Spider-Man’s Utility Belt
- Spider-Man’s Spider-Signal
- Doctor Octopus’ Tentacles
- The Daily Bugle
Synopsis
Betty Brant has returned to New York and taken back her secretary job at the Daily Bugle. Dr. Octopus having returned to New York, plots to get revenge on Spider-Man and decides to use Betty as bait. Kidnapping Betty from the Bugle building, he tells Jameson to put a call out to Spider-Man to meet him at a nearby amusement park.
With his spider-powers seemingly gone because he’s come down with a cold, Peter decides he that he has no choice but to save Betty as he is, and so he accepts the challenge of Dr. Octopus. When he tells Jameson (pretending that he just heard it so his identity isn’t compromised) Jameson decides to go and report the story himself.
When Spider-Man arrives to battle Dr. Octopus, all his powers have completely faded. Naturally, the powerless Spider-Man proves to be no match for Dr. Octopus. Dr. Octopus then publicly unmasks Spider-Man. When they all consider how Peter Parker could be Spider-Man, Octopus dismisses Parker as posing as Spider-Man to save his girlfriend, because Spider-Man would put up a better fight. He then flees the scene to try and find some other way to get the “real” Spider-Man’s attention.
Everyone gives Peter grief for the danger he put himself in, however Liz Allen finds the whole episode romantic, and her opinion of Peter changes and she realizes that she’s attracted to him. The next day Peter wakes up and finds that the cold has passed and as a result his powers are back. When Dr. Octopus releases animals from the zoo, Peter goes into action as Spider-Man. He rounds up all the animals, and then gets into a fight with Dr. Octopus across the city.
Their fight takes them to an artist’s loft where their fight causes a fire. When the flames grow too big, Spider-Man flees and Dr. Octopus is knocked out when he inhales too much smoke. The fire is put out and Octopus is turned over to the police. Having changed back to his civilian identity, Peter is asked out on a date by Liz Allen. Peter rejects her date telling her that he’s going to go on a better one with Betty Brant, and tells her to go on a date with Flash Thompson because they deserve each other.
Trivia
- The unmasking is referred to in a flashback of Sensational Spider-Man #28 (in Italy in URP # 262)
- The unmasking is shown in a flashback in Amazing Spider-Man #87 (in Italy in URC # 88)
- On Page 14, Panel 5, in an effort to attract Spider-Man, Dr. Octopus tips over a sign advertising Leedit, Inc. This is an obvious nod to Spider-Man creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (theKO still sounds like CO, and if you’re referring to companies, a synonom for CO is Inc.)
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“The Menace of… Mysterio!” / LA SFIDA DI MYSTERIO !
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Villains:
- Mysterio (Quentin Beck) (First appearance as Mysterio)
Other Characters:
- Peter Parker’s High School Classmates
- New York Policemen
Locations:
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Synopsis
Reports of Spider-Man robbing various establishments at night hit the news, causing Peter to wonder if he’s developed multiple personality disorder and goes on crimes sprees in his sleep as Spider-Man. He decides to go see a psychiatrist, however changes his mind about getting help as Spider-Man believing that it may compromise his secret identity.
Later, Peter goes to visit J. Jonah Jameson for a loan so that his Aunt May can make her mortgage payment on time. When there he snaps at Betty when she asks him why he hasn’t taken any pictures recently, and Jameson rejects his request for a loan and tells him to go out and take more pictures. When Peter tries to find some crimes to photograph as Spider-Man, he only succeeds in getting an angry mob after him. Later at school Liz Allen tries to impress people with her new hair style, and she snubs Flash Thompson when he comments that her new look is so beautiful that he didn’t recognize her.
Meanwhile, at the Daily Bugle, a new costumed being named Mysterio appears and tells Jameson that he’s a crime fighter and that he will bring Spider-Man to justice. He vanishes in a puff of smoke and leaves a note for Jameson telling him to publish a challenge to Spider-Man to meet on the Brooklyn Bridge. Peter decides to meet this challenge, and is easily defeated by Mysterio who appears to have magical powers.
The next day Mysterio is heralded as a hero, and later when he appears at the Daily Bugle building for a photo opportunity with Jameson, Peter tags Mysterio with a Spider-Tracer finding him suspicious.
Tracking Mysterio to his base, Spider-Man is told by Mysterio that he is a special effects artist who has decided to turn his skills to crime and that he reproduced Spider-Man’s abilities artificially in order to frame him for the crimes he committed. Spider-Man then reveals to Mysterio that he recorded the whole confession. A battle ensues, and Spider-Man uses his Spider-Sense to his advantage when Mysterio fills the room with smoke.
With Mysterio turned over to the police, Jameson realizes that he’s been made a fool of again. However, when he finds that Parker has brought him pictures of Spider-Man’s fight with Mysterio, his mood changes. Later Spider-Man pays another visit to Jameson and strings him up from his office’s ceiling and mocks him for once again making a fool out of himself with his anti-Spider-Man press.
“The Grotesque Adventure of the Green Goblin” / GOBLIN IL MALIGNO (1a parte)
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Villains:
- Green Goblin (First appearance)
- Enforcers
Other Characters:
- B.J. Cosmos (First appearance)
Locations:
- New York City
- Midtown High School
- Daily Bugle Building
- Aunt May’s House
- Ritz Plaza Hotel
- Hollywood
- A Cave in the New Mexico desert
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Vehicles:
- Flying Broomstick (Green Goblin) (First appearance)
Synopsis
Returning to New York City, the Green Goblin then circles around the city until he gets the attention of Spider-Man. He makes the film offer with Spider-Man who agrees to participate in it. With the announcement that Spider-Man is going to be in a film, J. Jonah Jameson sends Peter out to Hollywood to cover the story, this worries Betty Brant, because she believes that Peter might fall for some silver screen starlet while he’s out in California.
Arriving in California, Peter reports to B.J. Cosmos’ studio as Spider-Man, and he, the Green Goblin, and what he believes to be actors resembling the Enforcers are taken to New Mexico for a fight sequence to be filmed in the desert.
There, the Green Goblin reveals his true motives and Spider-Man battles him and the Enforcers across the desert. Their fight takes them into a cave, where Spider-Man easily defeats the Enforcers.
Continued to next issue….
