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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #114
by Gerry Conway, John Romita Sr., Tom Mortallero, and Jim Starlin
Hammerhead is here! And it's a gang war!
POINTLESS TRIVIA
BEN: Villain appearance count:
- Doctor Octopus: 14
- The Kingpin: 12
- Green Goblin: 11
- Kraven the Hunter: 8
- The Vulture: 7
- The Lizard: 7
- Mysterio: 6
- Professor Smythe/Spider Slayer: 6
- Sandman: 4
- Electro: 3
- The Enforcers: 3
- The Rhino: 3
- Man Mountain Marko: 3
- Silvermane: 3
- The Chameleon: 3
- The Schemer/Richard Fisk: 3
- The Ringmaster: 2
- Scorpion: 2
- Molten Man: 2
- Shocker: 2
- The Beetle: 2
- Morbius: 2
- The Gibbon: 2
- Hammerhead: 2
BEN: First appearance of Jonas Harrow, and the origin of Hammerhead.
DUY: No joke, I confused Harrow with Mendel Stromm for a second.
BEN: Or Smythe. I confuse all the mad scientists.
BEN: Or Smythe. I confuse all the mad scientists.
DUY: You said "first appearance" and I went "Wait, what? No....."
BEN: I couldn’t even tell you right now which one invents what.
BEN: I couldn’t even tell you right now which one invents what.
DUY: Who even has the time to keep track? And even if you could, why would you?
WHAT'S AGED THE BEST?
BEN: Gwen finally having enough of Flash.
DUY: Miles Warren shows up again, having aged 20 years, apparently. And now written by the guy who would turn him into... what he would eventually become.
BEN: I wonder if he already had plans.
DUY: And we're back to crime! Again, as discussed several times before, during the Crime-Master storyline, the Kingpin and the Petrified Tablet saga, and all that, before Frank Miller got onto Daredevil, Spider-Man was the book for organized crime for Marvel Comics.
BEN: I've said it before, but I hated the organized crime stuff as a kid but now I love it. I especially love the intersection between it and costumed villains. There’s no reason Doc Ock should be feuding with a gangster.
DUY: And it works too. The beauty of the superhero genre.
BEN: Duy, who is your favorite gangster character in Spider-Man? Because I think mine might be Hammerhead.
DUY: Hammerhead had a big role in the PS4 game too, which was kinda weird because I don't really expect it from Hammerhead. I like the Kingpin, but not as a Spider-Man villain. Mine might actually be Tombstone.
BEN: Tombstone is up there but only for one specific run. His storyline with Robbie Robertson in Spectacular Spider-Man. I haven’t really liked him any other time
DUY: He was great in the Spectacular cartoon too and also fun in the game. And I just like the general idea of him.
BEN: He’s like the Kingpin in that his increased strength makes no sense.
WHAT'S AGED THE WORST?
BEN: I hate when they do this. There’s a zero percent chance they don’t kill him.
NITPICKS
BEN: Super hearing?
DUY: Okay, theoretically some phone speakers are really loud.
BEN: Peter is really going to have some concussion problems after getting knocked unconscious twice in one day.
FAVORITE PANEL
WHO WON THE COMIC?
DUY: I'm gonna say John Romita wins this issue.
DUY: That's it for Spider-Rama this week.
BEN: Thank you, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko—
DUY: —for telling us we aren't the only ones.
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