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1973-07-01 00:02:30
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Amazing Spider-Man #119-120

Issue(s): Amazing Spider-Man #119, Amazing Spider-Man #120
Published Date: Apr-May 73
Title: "The gentleman's name is... Hulk!" / "The fight and the fury!"
Credits:
Gerry Conway - Writer
John Romita Sr. / Gil Kane - Penciler
Tony Mortellaro & John Romita Sr. / Tony Mortellaro, Paul Reinman & John Romita Sr. - Inker

Review/plot:
Peter is summoned to Canada by someone (Jean Pierre Rimbaud) who has information regarding his aunt (who is still living at Dr. Octopus's house while he is in jail). In order to pay his way there, he gets an assignment from the Daily Bugle to photograph the Hulk, who happens to be in Canada at the moment. General Ross is on loan from the US army to stop him, and he's missing a lot of the nuance that the character has in the Hulk's own book (and that's saying something). After fighting the Hulk...

...and getting hit on by a hot French-Canadian secretary, Peter meets the man who wanted to talk to him, but he gets assassinated before he can say anything. It's possible that this relates to the fact the Peter was being tailed by one of Dr. Octopus' goons.

Also, it seems my Marvel Tales reprints have been holding out on me because it turns out that Harry has suffered a nervous breakdown and passed out in issue #118, but you wouldn't know it from my copy. In this issue Peter hears from Gwen that Harry is back on the drugs.

At least this issue (the reprint in Amazing Spider-Man annual #12) has a John Byrne cover (with a blurb that says "The classic confrontation between Marvel's two TV SENSATIONS retold!").

I thought this panel looked odd, as if Kane had trouble fitting the Hulk within its dimensions.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 2 - developments for Harry Osborne and Aunt May

Chronological Placement Considerations: Takes place after Hulk #162, while the Hulk is in Canada. Also takes place before Marvel Team-Up #9-11.

References: N/A

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: Amazing Spider-Man annual #12

Inbound References (1): show

Characters Appearing: Aunt May, Betty Brant, General 'Thunderbolt' Ross, Green Goblin, Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn, Hulk, J. Jonah Jameson, Ned Leeds, Spider-Man

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Comments

Gil Kane drew #120, and that issue may contain Paul Reinman's last Marvel contribution.

Credits updated. Thanks again.

The Grand Comics Database also credits Reinman with a role in Romita's fill-in issue, Spidey 132 (early 1974)


 
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