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LO STUPEFACENTE UOMO RAGNO
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN
EDITORIALE CORNO SECONDA SERIE
ALBO ORIGINALE TUTTO A COLORI DEL 1982
Il partner di Spiderman nella storia principale di questo numero è il tenebroso ed inquietante SUDARIO / THE SHROUD, il supereroe/villano capace di cazzeggiare con la forza oscura e contro i cui poteri è completamente inefficace ed inutile qualsiasi deodorante, anche il più potente ed avanzato
contiene inoltre : AVENGERS / I VENDICATORI – X-MEN
CONDIZIONI: OTTIME
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“Darkness, Darkness” / IL SIGNORE DELLE TENEBRE
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Werewolf (Only in flashback)
- Cat
- Mouse
Locations:
- California
- Los Angeles
- Cat’s Jazz Club
- Los Angeles
Items:
Synopsis
Six hours earlier, Spider-Man encountered the Werewolf
in a Los Angeles nightclub known as Cat’s Jazz Club. It is now well
after closing time, and Cat and Mouse are cleaning the place up. Cat
comments that it is odd that Spider-Man should be in Los Angeles, so far
from his usual hangout. Mouse wonders why their boss kept them out of
the fight with the Tatterdemalion. They could have easily taken him, she
says. As they converse, they fail to notice Spider-Man himself clinging
to the ceiling. Suddenly he snags Cat with his webbing and suspends him
in the air. Mouse tries to rescue her partner, but Spider-Man hangs her
in the air, too. He wants to know where the Shroud is, and Mouse is
only too happy to point out that the Shroud is on the club’s stage
behind him. The Shroud demands to know why Spider-Man’s looking for him,
and Spider-Man replies that he was told the Shroud has been taking over
the Los Angeles gangs one by one. Then Spider-Man attacks, but the
Shroud easily dodges. When he tries to cover the Shroud with webbing,
the room is suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. He can see nothing,
but his spider-sense warns of danger from all directions. Punches start
coming at him that he cannot see to avoid, and the Shroud declares that
he is aware of all of Spider-Man’s limitations. Spider-Man knows little
about the Shroud, but he realizes that the Shroud is somehow responsible
for the darkness that is triggering his spider-sense. Focusing his
sense and allowing it to guide him, he strikes out with his fist and
connects. The darkness vanishes, and Spider-Man finds the Shroud
unconscious on the floor beside him. Spider-Man picks him up and
web-swings out of the nightclub.
As Spider-Man web-swings above Los Angeles, he muses on the
events of the past few hours. He recalls encountering Spider-Woman,
meeting the Werewolf, and battling the Tatterdemalion. Then he met a
strange woman, whom the Werewolf could not see, and followed her home.
Calling herself Dansen Macabre, she explained to him her talent to
prevent people from seeing her unless she wishes otherwise. Her hair was
platinum blonde, and she wore a revealing violet costume with a dark
ribbon in constant motion around her body. She told him she needed his
aid against a “fiend” threatening the city who calls himself the Shroud.
His powers were given to him by the Cult of Kali, she continued, and he
intends to become the lord of crime in Los Angeles. The Shroud bears
the mark of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death, on his clothes and on his
person. Under him, criminals will spread the worship of Kali, she
explained, and she has been charged by her own sect to stop him. But all
the while that she spoke with Spider-Man, she danced lightly in front
of him and put him into a trance. No mortal can resist the hypnotic
effects of the Dance of Shiva, she said as he stood immobile. When she
first saw him, she continued, she knew he had the power to defeat the
Shroud and would aid her. Speaking slowly, Spider-Man agreed, and she
commanded him to bring her the Shroud, so she could crush him forever.
As she awaits Spider-Man, Dansen Macabre addresses the giant
statue of Shiva that dominates her living room. Soon, she promises the
deity, his foe shall be stretched helpless across his altar. In that
hour, Spider-Man and the blasphemer will both die. As Spider-Man
approaches the apartment, he is amused that a complete Hindu temple
exists inside an otherwise ordinary penthouse, and he chalks it up to
the notorious “California lifestyle.” Dansen Macabre is amazed that he
has returned so quickly, but he explains that the Shroud did not put up
much of a fight. When Spider-Man lays him on the floor, Dansen draws her
dagger, saying that the time has come to put an end to the Shroud. In
gaining his power from the priests of the Cult of Kali, she says, the
Shroud transgressed against Shiva and now ne must pay the price.
Spider-Man tries to prevent her, but her hypnotic control immobilizes
him. But as she raises the Shroud’s head to cut his throat, she sees
that he is someone else dressed in the Shroud’s costume.
Then the real Shroud leaps in through the window. He says that
the man on the floor is a decoy to make her drop her defenses and allow
him to enter her lair unnoticed. She is puzzled, for her existence
should have been unknown to him, but he replies that his special senses
are not so easily deceived. He knew her from the moment she stepped into
the jazz club, he says. Then he plunges the room into darkness. Dansen,
however, remains unaffected and strikes at him with her dagger. Seeing
that his darkness power is useless, the Shroud quickly turns it off,
hoping that the sudden burst of light around him will blind her
momentarily and break her control over Spider-Man. This works, because
Spider-Man fortunately is not looking toward the Shroud when the lights
come on. But even though blinded, she begins her Dance of Shiva, and
once started, she says, no man can look away. She moves faster and
faster, saying that the dance that hypnotizes can also kill. Then
Spider-Man and the Shroud collapse.
But when Dansen approaches the Shroud with her dagger, Spider-Man
suddenly grabs her. She is astounded that he is alive, and he explains
that the Shroud covered his eyes with patches of blackness so that he
could not see her. Presumably he did the same for himself. But the
Shroud stands up and proclaims that he has no need of such “tricks.”
Spider-Man wonders what they will do with her, because the authorities
will surely not believe the “cult business.” Then Dansen Macabre
abruptly vanishes. The Shroud, however, tells Spider-Man that she is
present but outside his perceptions. Not even his spider-senses would be
able to find her, he continues, but he himself can still detect her. He
grapples with her invisible form and forces her to drop her dagger, but
she knocks the wind out of him with a kick. The Shroud tells Spider-Man
to stop her, but Spider-Man has no idea where she is. She is climbing
up the statue of Shiva, warns the Shroud.
Then the idol starts to fall on them, but Spider-Man manages to
catch it. It is solid gold and weighs many tons, however, so he cannot
hold it very long. The Shroud instructs Spider-Man to strike it between
its fifth and sixth ribs on the left side with all his strength, and
when he does, it shatters. At this point, Dansen, still invisible, heads
for the door. But as it opens, Spider-Man comprehends what is happening
and quickly webs it shut. Then the Shroud knocks her out with a punch,
and she suddenly becomes visible as she collapses. There is no need to
turn her over to the police, says the Shroud, because they would never
be able to hold her. When Spider-Man hears this, he decides that the
Shroud must be a criminal after all. He attacks, but the Shroud plunges
the room into darkness. He admits that he is trying to take over the Los
Angeles gangs, but he has his reasons and does not have to explain them
to Spider-Man. As they wrestle, he tells Spider-Man not to bother using
his webbing, because he has learned its flaws after Spider-Man webbed
up Cat. Spider-Man uses the Shroud’s voice to find him in the dark and
hurls him to the floor.
The Shroud says he is disappointed with Spider-Man, because
Spider-Man was the greatest inspiration for his career. Suddenly,
Spider-Man feels the Shroud’s costume empty, and when the lights go on,
he is left holding just the Shroud’s cape. The Shroud himself, and Cat,
who was unconscious the whole time, are gone. Only Dansen Macabre
remains where she has fallen. Spider-Man decides he has had enough of
Los Angeles and leaps from the window, headed for the airport to catch
his plane back home.
Later, as Peter Parker sits awaiting his flight, a darkly clothed
man sits next to him. He would like to show him something, the man
says, in return for his aid in trapping Dansen Macabre. Then he calls
Peter “Spider-Man.” Peter becomes alarmed, but the man assures him that
his secret is safe. He does not know his real name, he says, and he
certainly cannot tell anyone what he looks like. Then the man removes
his sunglasses, and Peter can see the scars around his eyes and realizes
that the man, the Shroud, is blind.
Now, says the Shroud, Peter knows one of his secrets. Then he
wishes Peter a safe flight home. When Peter tries to touch him, all he
finds is a man-shaped patch of darkness where the Shroud was standing.
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“Death on the Hudson!” / MORTE SULL’ HUDSON ! (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Hawkeye
- Redwing
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Sandy Herkowitz, first time name has appeared anywhere other than a name tag
Locations:
- New York City
- New York Harbor
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Iron Man joins the battle, but surprisingly his blows do
nothing, and Creel clocks him. He grabs Sandy again, and runs for the
dock, but the ship has already left! The Avengers pursue, and Creel
comes fist to fist with Vision! Vision lets Creel absorb his powers,
specifically his etherealness, and Creel falls through the dock before
he can become human again! Seeing the departing ship, he starts
swimming towards it, but he can’t catch up, and the Avengers are close
behind him. In resignation, Absorbing Man turns himself into water, and
lets the tides disperse him!
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“Psi War!” / PSYCO-GUERRA (1a parte)
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Featured Characters:
- The X-Men
- Phoenix
- Professor X (Appears in flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- Moira MacTaggert (Only in flashback)
- Angel (In a photograph only)
- Beast (In a photograph only)
- Iceman (In a photograph only)
- Marvel Girl (In a photograph only)
- Captain Hama (First appearance)
- Takeda – Hama’s first mate
- Unnamed crewman of the Jinguchi Maru freighter
Locations:
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- Drake Passage
Items:
Vehicles:
- Savage Land boat
- ‘Jinguchi Maru’ freighter
Synopsis
Following their departure from the Savage Land, the X-Men find
themselves caught in the middle of a terrible storm at sea. While Storm
attempts to control the raging weather with her mutant powers, the team
are found and rescued by Jinguchi Maru, a Japanese ship out on a
government mission. The captain of the ship welcomes the X-Men aboard,
but tells the group that they are unauthorized to make radio contact
until the ship returns to Japan.
While at the X-Mansion, Jean Grey decides to leave the mansion
for a vacation finding that the old house carried too many memories of
the friends she believes to be dead. As she departs, Lilandra considers
how someone so young can go through so much grief. She then goes to
check on Charles, who is still reeling over the supposed death of his
students. When she gets him to talk about things, he tells her how he
keeps on thinking of the beginning when he decided to dedicate his life
to peace between humans and mutants.
It all began years ago when he and Moira Kinross were in love,
when he was drafted into the military she would promise to wait for him.
He would be injured in combat, and learn while recovering the hospital
that Moira would go on to marry another. Upon his release from the
hospital, Charles would spend his time wandering the globe until he
found his way to Cairo, Egypt. One day he would be robbed by a young
female pickpocket — a girl that Charles would now recognize as his
future student, Ororo Munroe — and chase after her, he would easily
stop her with his mental powers. He would end up being struck by a
mental attack in the process of recovering his wallet.
Continued to next issue…
