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1994-02-01 00:08:32
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1994 / Box 38 / EiC: Tom DeFalco

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Spectacular Spider-Man #211

Issue(s): Spectacular Spider-Man #211
Cover Date: Apr 94
Title: "Face value"
Credits:
Mike Lackey - Writer
Sal Buscema - Penciler
Sal Buscema - Inker
Mark Powers - Editor

Review/plot:
Spider-Man continues his Pursuit of the Chameleon. Chameleon hires Tracer - a 1993 annual character, in his second and final appearance - to stop Spider-Man.

Tracer does about as well as you'd expect. He's rattled by Spidey's quips even though he's trained to ignore them.

Also there's the fact that Spidey is fighting like a "brutal, bludgeoning madman" due to his rage at the Chameleon.

Tracer gives Spider-Man the alias that Chameleon used when he hired him.

Mary Jane's role for this issue is - you guessed it - worrying about her husband. She considers calling the Black Cat to commiserate, but her number's been disconnected.

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: This is part two of Pursuit. Part three is in Web of Spider-Man #112.

References:

  • Tracer debuted in Deathlok annual #2.

Crossover: Pursuit

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Inbound References (1): show

  • Web of Spider-Man #112

Characters Appearing: Chameleon, J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, Spider-Man, Tracer

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Comments

"Maintain verbal abstinence". Hm. Now there's a line a need to note down... :)

Posted by: Piotr W | November 22, 2017 4:41 PM

Isn't there another Tracer introduced in "the Other" arc about a decade from now? Might want to consider that in the character tags?

Posted by: Max_Spider | November 24, 2017 12:36 PM

The usually solid Sal Buscema, who during his lengthy career was required to draw a number of stories of a variable quality and did so with his typical level of professionalism, seems underwhelmed by this material, turning in artwork with almost no backgrounds. Not that I blame him.

Posted by: Ben Herman | November 24, 2017 1:22 PM

I feel like Howard Mackie noticably improves here from his earlier bad writing. Also, reading early 90s Spider-man through in order (admittedly skipping quite a bit) years back, at this point I was thrilled that it actually had a direction again, regardless of what it was! The early 90s are like a vast forest of inconsequentiality.

Posted by: Benway | November 24, 2017 9:12 PM




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