Happy Birthday Howard Mackie!!!
[CENTER][SIZE=5][COLOR="#0000FF"][I]Amazing Spider-Man #1[/I] Jan 1999[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]"Where R U Spider-Man???"[/SIZE]
The Fantastic Four,
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Daredevil
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and the Avengers
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wonder where Spider-Man's disappeared to.
Story by [B]Howard Mackie[/B] [url]http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/happy_61st_birthday_howard_mackie/[/url], art by John Byrne & Scott Hanna.[/CENTER]
Happy Birthday Jazzy Johnny "Ring-a-Ding" Romita!!!
[CENTER][SIZE=5][COLOR="#0000FF"][I]Amazing Spider-Man #68[/I] Jan 1969[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Crisis on Campus![/SIZE]
When the Kingpin of Crime looks to steal an ancient tablet,
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will Spider-Man be up to the task to stop him and his henchmen?;
Kingpin destroys a wall with his blaster cane, burying Spider-Man and Randy Robertson under it.
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Script by [B]John Romita[/B] (plot) and Stan Lee (script),
pencils by [B]John Romita[/B] (layouts) and Jim Mooney (pencils), inks by Jim Mooney
[url]https://13thdimension.com/13-covers-a-john-romita-birthday-celebration-4/[/url][/CENTER]
Happy Birthday "Our Pal" Sal Buscema!!!
[url]http://www.jmdematteis.com/2019/01/happy-birthday-sal-buscema.html[/url]
Happy 55th Anniversary 616 Max Dillon aka Electro!!! 1964-2019
[CENTER][COLOR="#0000FF"][SIZE=5][I]Amazing Spider-Man #9[/I] Feb 1964[/SIZE][/COLOR]
[SIZE=3]First appearance of Electro in "The Man Called Electro!"[/SIZE]
Spider-Man is dashing past a group of pedestrians who are wondering where he is off to.
Then the police are happy to see Spider-Man swinging by to help them stop gunmen, but he just swings by.
Soon we find out the reason for Spider-Man rushing by was to get a prescription for Aunt May.
On the other side of town, while Peter sits up at Aunt May's bedside, a new menace in the form of [COLOR="#006400"]Electro[/COLOR]
charges himself up with electricity and sets out to steal the contents of an armored car carrying gold.
After using electric shocks to scare the guards and surrounding them in a ring of electricity he manages to get what he wants.
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The next morning, Peter calls the doctor who explains that Aunt May's health is worse and that she must go to the hospital.
Aunt May is worried that Peter cannot look after himself, but he assures her he can.
Later that day, Peter goes to class but ignores the taunts of Flash Thompson as his mind is focused on the well being of Aunt May.
When Peter finally visits Aunt May, he finds Betty Brant there visiting.
Peter has much on his mind and leaves abruptly, without seeing Betty home.
Meanwhile, Electro decides to make a withdrawal at the Forest Hills Bank. There he uses electric shocks to keep the bank manager
and his guest J. Jonah Jameson busy while he opens the timelock vault with his electrical powers. The next edition of the Daily Bugle is printed
and there is an article claiming the criminal Electro is Spider-Man. Spider-Man searches for Electro and comes up empty a few times,
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and when he finally finds him, Electro defeats him.
The next edition of the Bugle again claims to have proof that Spider-Man is Electro, which makes the public ask questions about who Spider-Man
really is. At a secret hideout after also reading the Bugle, [COLOR="#006400"]Max Dillon[/COLOR] tells his origin. When he's finished,
he goes to the West Side House of Detention in downtown New York, where he sets about freeing some prisoners to become his flunkies.
Jameson travels down there to see if Spider-Man shows up and to prove that they are one and the same.
Peter is tied up looking after his aunt at the hospital, but wants to go to the House of Detention to take photos for the Bugle.
When Spider-Man finally turns up at the House of Detention, Jameson realizes his mistake: Electro and Spider-Man are different people.
Spider-Man quickly puts rubber gloves on his hands and rubber boots on his
feet to insulate him from the electric bolts he will face when he finds Electro.
After a long fight with the inmates and Electro, Spider-Man finally defeats Electro
with a fire hose and removes his mask, expecting to know who Electro is.
Afterwards Spider-Man sells pictures of Electro fighting Spider-Man to J. Jonah Jameson, receiving some much needed money to help Aunt May.
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The story ends with Betty and Peter trying to find the right words to say to each other.
[B]Script[/B] by Stan Lee, [B]art[/B] by Steve Ditko[/CENTER]
Happy Birthday Greg LaRocque!!!
[CENTER][SIZE=5][COLOR="#0000FF"][I]Marvel Team-Up #138[/I] Feb 1984[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]"Starting Over!" Guest-starring Spider-Man and the Sandman.[/SIZE]
After a long conversation with Ben Grimm in [I][COLOR="#0000FF"]Marvel Two-in-One 86[/COLOR][/I],
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the Sandman decided to give up his criminal ways and instead attempt to lead a normal law-abiding life.
Now several months later, Spider-Man's long-time foe is struggling to make ends meet.
Meanwhile, the Kingpin's right-hand man, the Arranger, re-organizes the Enforcers to better control an extortion operation in Brooklyn.
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When the Enforcers rough up a Brooklyn store owner who also happens to be Flint Marko's landlord,
the Sandman goes after Fancy Dan, Hammer, Montana, Snake Marston and the Ox!
And when the former villain finds the Enforcers...he also finds their bound captive...Spider-Man!
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Is the Sandman going to rescue the web-slinger?
Script by Tom DeFalco. Art by [B]Greg LaRocque[/B] (breakdowns) [url]http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/happy_65th_birthday_greg_larocque/[/url] and Mike Esposito (finishes).[/CENTER]