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Amazing Spider-Man #242-243Issue(s): Amazing Spider-Man #242, Amazing Spider-Man #243 Review/plot: ![]() ![]() ![]() The couple make up, and Mary Jane Watson returns to Peter's life and the cast of the book. ![]() The villain of this arc is the awesome Mad Thinker... ![]() ...who decides to investigate what he's heard about Spider-Man. ![]() While still in prison, he mentally activates one of his battle-droids. ![]() ![]() Spider-Man is able to destroy the robot in issue #242 (but the Thinker is able to confirm that Spider-Man has a Spider-Sense)... ![]() ...leaving issue #243 mainly as a downtime issue, although Spidey does stop some revolutionaries from holding a church hostage. ![]() In addition to Mary Jane coming back, the big news is that Peter Parker decides to quit grad school. ![]() Between being Spider-Man and being a photographer, going to school is just too much for him. Quality Rating: A- Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A References:
Crossover: N/A Continuity Insert? N My Reprint: N/A Inbound References (5): show CommentsA notebook on Ben Urich's desk reads "Bob Camp(phone #)-re:Axe Murder". Bob Camp was an inker on the Conan titles and other places around this time, but I don't know if "axe" refers to anything special. Posted by: Mark Drummond | August 11, 2012 6:08 PM I hate these issues only because they brought Mary Jane back. They should have just kept her as the bitch that turned down Peter marriage proposal Posted by: doomsday | July 9, 2013 3:59 PM Grad school must not have agreed with Peter - he looks like he's on death's door in that last panel! Posted by: S | July 9, 2013 11:13 PM Cartoonist Evan Dorkin has a letter in issue 242. Posted by: Aaron Malchow | August 11, 2015 1:45 PM The Mad Thinker plotline started here is finally, belatedly wrapped up over a decade later in Spider-Man Team-Up #2. Posted by: Omar Karindu | October 4, 2015 9:45 AM Much like his early battles with the Fantastic Four, this is basically a victory for the Thinker since he gains knowledge in the end. I like the idea that he could pick a fight with almost any hero in an attempt to learn about them and then tuck that information away for later. Posted by: TCP | December 28, 2017 1:46 PM MTU #129-30 are referenced because it's Spider-Man's encounter with the Thinker's "Intellectual Robots" in those issues that brings him to the Thinker's attention, in a neat bit of continuity-weaving by Stern Posted by: Omar Karindu | May 29, 2018 2:45 PM Comments are now closed. |
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