Silver Sable Appreciation (2019)

[Frontier]

Like Black Cat, you mean?

Well, yeah, but in general, aside from Marvel Rising, the Marvel cartoons as of late have seemed to give the female characters shorter or "out-there" haircuts, presumably because long hair is harder to animate.

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Amazing Spider-Man #320 Sep 1989
The Assassin Nation Plot begins in "License Invoked" Part 1 of 6. Guest-starring Paladin.
At Empire State University, Peter Parker is testing out the strength of a new webbing formula by putting an acetylene torch to it.
He is caught in the act by Doctor Evan Sloan. After offering an excuse as to what he is doing,
Peter agrees when Dr. Sloan suggests that he does his independent research on his own time.
After his shift is over, Peter changes into Spider-Man so he can test his new webbing while also hunting for photos he can take for the Daily Bugle.
Meanwhile, in Forest Hills, Mary Jane gets a call from Harry Osborn who is asking for help with moving into his new loft in Soho.
After Mary Jane finishes her call, she notices that Aunt May has been acting strangely all morning.
At that moment, in lower Manhattan, Spider-Man happens upon a bunch of men laying on the ground outside a warehouse.
Going inside, he finds the hired mercenary known as Paladin going through files.
Spotting the wall-crawler, Paladin opens fire, but the hero dodges the shots.
Before Spider-Man can find out what's going on, a bunch of armed men comes rushing into the warehouse with guns blazing.
Spider-Man uses his new webbing to dump a pile of crates on them.
Unfortunately, the webbing proves to be too good as the pinch valve in the wall-crawler's web-shooters can't cut through them.
As a result, Spider-Man is yanked back when he tries to go after Paladin, allowing the mercenary to escape.

Deciding to learn what Paladin was looking for, he looks through the wreckage
and comes across a guest list for a reception being thrown at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel hosted by the Life Foundation.
Wondering why the catering business that is supplying the event would have heavily hard men,
Spider-Man decides to go home and sort things out. When Peter returns home, he finds his wife, Mary Jane, in the middle of a workout.
After telling Peter that they are going to help the Osborns move, Peter asks if she wants to go to a party.
Mary Jane jokingly points out that she is only unemployed, not dead and wants to go.
Peter then asks MJ to use her connections in the modeling industry to get them into the party at the Waldorf.

Soon, Peter and Mary Jane are at the Waldorf, where he quickly spots Paladin among the crowd.
He also recognizes an elderly man in sunglasses, but can't place where he knows him. This is Carleton Drake of the Life Foundation.
Peter then leaves his wife so he can get down to business. Changing into Spider-Man he tails Paladin, who is following a diplomatic limo.
This led to an import car dealership in Brooklyn. There, Spider-Man watches as Paladin holds the diplomat at gunpoint.
That's when Spider-Man steps in to stop Paladin from hurting the official. Suddenly, the diplomat begins shooting at Spider-Man.
Then a group of paramilitary soldiers were swarming the area with guns blazing. They are then attacked by mini-tanks.
While the pair is dealing with those tanks, the diplomat and Carleton Drake manage to escape.
Paladin is furious by Spider-Man's interference. Suddenly, a helicopter arrives and drops a rope ladder
and Paladin tells Spider-Man to join him in explaining why he failed his mission.

Aboard the helicopter, Spider-Man is surprised to see that Paladin's employer is Silver Sable.

Paladin was supposed to stop Carleton Drake from meeting with the diplomat until Spider-Man interfered.
Spider-Man remembers his last encounter with Drake and the Life Foundation and their secret compound in New Jersey.

Silver Sable explains that she is investigating a foreign government that is conspiring against her homeland of Symkaria.
The ramifications of which could threaten peace on a global scale.

Spider-Man is apologetic for his interruption and offers to help Silver Sable for free.
Sable tells him to contact the Smykarian embassy later. Sable then drops him off in Queens.
The next morning, Peter wakes up and picks up the phone to contact Silver Sable.
However, Aunt May is already one the phone. He overhears the doctor telling her that a diagnosis is complete.
The prognosis is heart disease, and there is a six month life expetancy.
Hearing this, Peter is led to believe that his Aunt May has only six months to live.

Script by David Michelinie. Art by Todd McFarlane.

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Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #28 Sep 1994
"Assassin's Guild"
Inside Grand Central Station, Silver and Chen are on the tail of a group of assassins.

Silver is impressed by the skills of these assassins when one confronts them.
Chen recognizes the assassin, but Silver has to kill the female assassin before she can behead Chen.
Chen reveals that she used to work with these group of assassins and that collectively,
they used to work for the Foreigner (Silver's ex) before they defected. Later that day, as Silver prepares to leave for a night on the town,
two cars ram into her limo before she gets in it, and they explode. Chen says that she needs to take care of this alone, to protect Silver.
As such, Chen tries to rejoin her old band of lady assassins. They are a bit suspicious,
but tell her to take down someone to prove her worth. She accepts. On a boat of Long Island,
Chen moves in for the kill, much to pleasure of her old colleague, watching from the dock.
But Chen is suddenly confronted by Silver, who accuses her of not truly reforming.
Chen simply states she doesn't want Silver involved, then kicks her down and escapes. Silver is stunned,

but then, the would be victim arises. It's Sandman in disguise. Apparently, Chen is trying to stay clean.
Meanwhile, the lady assassins begin their next plot: the infiltration of the mansion of some crime boss.
As they enter, the assassins tell Chen to kill the lot of them, but she can't do it.
As the other assassins dispatch the crime dudes, Chen escapes into the topiary maze in the lawn. The assassins follow.
Silver, thanks to information from the Foreigner, has arrived on the scene to assist.

As all parties stalk each other in the maze, the leader of the assassins is bested by Chen.
She taunts Chen to kill her, knowing she can't, but Chen knocks her out and says, "I am an assassin no more."

Written by Gregory Wright. Art by Gordon Purcell & Andy Parks.

[Winterboy]

Sable in ASM #32.

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[Winterboy]

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[Jman27]

Sable in ASM #32.

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one girl from the harem leaves another comes back

[Hugo Strange]

Is she on her ex's side?

[ngroove]

one girl from the harem leaves another comes back

Calling it a "harem" does not compliment any favors for her, you know.

[Lukmendes]

Is she on her ex's side?

It's more like her ex is on her side, since she's the one who hired him to get the Infinity Formula.

Maybe she wants to use it to get rid of her white hair?

[Agent Z]

Sable in ASM #32.

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What happened here?

[WebSlingWonder]

Is it just me, or is her costume more black than silver on that art from ASM?

[Lukmendes]

What happened here?

Chameleon got the Infinity Formula, probably from that guy he kidnapped in ASM#29, and was going to sell it to Foreigner, Spidey and Teresa arrive, Spidey fought Foreigner for a bit, Foreigner mentions he's getting the formula for someone else, Spidey wonders who, then Silver Sable blasts him from behind, revealing she's the one after the Infinity Formula.

[Phoenixx9]

Is it just me, or is her costume more black than silver on that art from ASM?

Yes, it can look like that, although it might be meant to be in very low light, making it appear to be black, while being a dark silver.

Or else....she is now the Black Sable...?????

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Amazing Spider-Man #321 Oct 1989
"Underwar!" The Assassin Nation Plot Part 2 of 6. Guest-starring Paladin and Silver Sable.
Investigating a conspiracy against the nation of Symkaria, Spider-Man has joined Paladin.
They have tracked the conspirators to a train yard owned by the Life Foundation.
Spider-Man is distracted because he believes that his Aunt May has only six months to live due to heart disease.
While Spider-Man keeps the guards at bay, Paladin starts stealing the files the Life Foundation have at the facility.
With their mission done, Paladin heads off and tells Spider-Man to call the Symkarian Embassy tomorrow.
The wall-crawler heads back to his Aunt May's home in Queens. Riding atop a subway train,
Spider-Man hopes to find out what the Life Foundation's involvement in this operation is.
He also worries about his financial problems, Mary Jane's sagging career, and Aunt May's health.

Later that day at Life Foundation headquarters Carlton Drake
goes over Spider-Man's interference on their recent operation.
When his associates suggest they abort the current mission,
Drake decides that they need a field test and orders them to prepare the Protectors.
While in Queens, Peter talks to his wife Mary Jane about how Aunt May could be dying of heart disease.
Mary Jane suggests that they give May her privacy.
However, when Peter's Aunt enters the room, Peter reveals what he knows.
However, May explains that it's not her who was diagnosed with heart disease, but Nathan Lubenski, her longtime fiancee.
With Nathan's days numbered, May wants to make him as comfortable
as possible and has decided to shut down her boarding house.
Peter understands, but later while getting ready for bed, Peter feels bad
leaving Aunt May, but Mary Jane points that they have to find a place.
However, she has good news, she has an audition for a role in a soap opera.
Something that she is satisfied doing since her modeling career is on a hiatus.
She also reminds Peter that they are helping the Osborns move into their new loft.

The next day, Peter and Mary Jane help Harry and Liz Osborn move into their new home.
A few hours later, Peter hopes the Osborns can help them when they finally find a place of their own.
That's when Harry announces that he has a surprise for the Parkers.
He tells them that the upper levels of the building are vacant and offers to let Peter and Mary Jane move in.
They go upstairs to check out the loft, and they fall in love with it immediately. The pair accept the offer to move in.
Later, Peter goes out to a nearby payphone so he can call Silver Sable
and follow up on their investigation into the Life Foundation.
She tells him to meet her at a helipad on 34th Street so they can head to New Jersey.
Soon, Spider-Man, Silver Sable and Paladin are heading to New Jersey in a glider.
Ejecting from the glider near the Life Foundation's headquarters, the glider goes off on a crash course to create a distraction.

They then ambush one of the guards and enter the facility through a ventilation shaft.
Inside the facility, the trio discovers that the Life Foundation is building
a new survivalist bunker, complete with its own shopping mall.
They are soon confronted by Carleton Drake and his Protectors,
a group of mercenaries that have been mutated into massive muscled creatures.

The creatures are more powerful than the three heroes can handle.
Paladin manages to take one of the Protectors down by dumping a bunch of construction crates onto the creature.
During the fight, a wall is smashed down, revealing a weather control panel.
Spider-Man cranks it up full blast, creating an artificial blizzard inside.
Meanwhile, Drake and Chakane observe from the safety in the control room. That's when Silver Sable smashes into the room.

She shoots Drake in the shoulder and then pulls a needle out of her pocket that she intends to use on Chakane.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man lures one of the last Protectors into the control room and makes it hit a fuse box, electrocuting the behemoth.
Spider-Man wanders into the blizzard and reunites with Paladin. The pair then knocks out the last of their foes.
When they catch up with Silver Sable, she has already extracted the information out of Chakane using sodium pentethol.
Spider-Man is upset that she used drugs on their opponent,
however, Sable isn't interested in getting any morality from the wall-crawler.

On the flight back to New York, Silver Sable reveals that Chakane was going to hide out
an assassin in the United States after they eliminate the king of Symkaria during his silver jubilee.

When she asks the two men to accompany her back to her home country to catch the assassin, Paladin tells her that he has another contract.
Spider-Man is about to decline because he doesn't agree with her morals
but when she offers to pay him a generous daily rate, Spider-Man can't turn it down.

Script by David Michelinie. Art by Todd McFarlane.

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Amazing Spider-Man #322 Oct 1989
"Ceremony" The Assassin Nation Plot Part 3 of 6. Guest-starring Silver Sable.
Spider-Man has accompanied Silver Sable and the Wild Pack to her native Symkaria to prevent an assassination plot.
They crash in on a bunch of militants at a Symkarian government office. Thinking this is part of that plot,
Silver Sable and her team are disappointed to discover that this is merely an attempt to rob a government payroll.
Silver Sable and Spider-Man then take a limo back to the Symkarian royal palace.
On the way, Sable is frustrated as this is another in a series of failed raids.
This is mostly because Silver Sable International could be involved in more profitable ventures.
Spider-Man balks at this opinion, but Sable reminds the wall-crawler that the only reason why he is here is that he interfered in her operation in the
United States to determine who the assassin trying to kill the king was, and that he only agreed to come to Symkaria because she offered to pay him.
Spider-Man wishes he could tell Sable that he has a wife and apartment and they could use the money,
but can't without exposing his identity, leaving them both in a chilly silence.

When they arrive at the royal palace, Spider-Man witnesses the festivities being
prepared for the silver jubilee and the upcoming wedding of the king of Symkaria.
They then witness King Stefan and his fiancee Vivian address the crowds from a balcony.
Silver Sable tells Spider-Man that the king and his bride-to-be are much loved
by the people of Symkaria and their deaths would be a national tragedy.
They are then joined by Prime Minister Limka who extends his apologies for the unsuccessful raid.

Sable is not impressed with Limka's security and tells the Prime Minister that her Wild Pack will remain with the king.
While Sable decides to spend her downtime to get some exercise in, Spider-Man web-slings off to do some sightseeing.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Limka is back in his office where he thinks about how Spider-Man's involvement complicates things.
His thoughts are interrupted by Major Weil, an operative of the terrorist organization known as ULTIMATUM.
Weil learns that the false intel they have been feeding Silver Sable has been working,
and they decide to proceed to assassinate the king during the air show tomorrow.
ULTIMATUM is targeting Symkaria for their anti-nationalism agenda.
The Prime Minister, however, is only interested in eliminating King Stefan before he can produce an heir,
so he can take control of the Symkarian government and dissolve the monarchy.

At that moment, Spider-Man goes into the city again so he can call back home from a pay phone.
The phone is answered by Aunt May who is delighted to hear from her nephew.
She tells him that Mary Jane isn't home because she went off for her audition for a role in the soap opera "Secret Hospital".
Spider-Man has to cut the call short before it gets too expensive and heads back to the castle.
While in New York City, Mary Jane is nervous as she goes over the script.
The character she is auditioning for is an arrogant woman named "Sybil"
and she wonders how she can stand out among all the other women auditioning for the role.
When it's her turn, Mary Jane puts on a scene, refusing to read her lines,
telling the auditioners that they should appreciate that she even bothered coming to the audition.
This takes them aback, and they point out that is not how a relative unknown would act during an audition.
Mary Jane drops character and agrees, pointing out that this is exactly how Sybil would have handled the situation.
Telling them her phone number is on her resume, Mary Jane walks out of the audition with a smile on her face.
Amazed by the stunt she pulled, Mary Jane heads to find a party.

Later that evening, at the Symkarian palace, Spider-Man is among the guests at a formal dinner being thrown for the king.
He feels silly having to wear a tuxedo over his Spider-Man costume.
Particularly since he has had to wear his costume at all times in order to preserve his secret identity.
He spots Silver Sable walking out onto a nearby balcony and joins her.
She tells him that she is checking the security perimeter and reveals her concerns
about how the assassination of the king could pitch Symkaria into the dark ages.
Spider-Man is surprised to hear Silver Sable speak of anything deeper than her corporate bottom line.
Sable reveals that she is willing to die for her country, and asks Spider-Man if he would ever be willing to do the same for his own.
Spider-Man isn't sure, and Sable tells him to sleep on it, dismissing him for the evening.
The next day, Spider-Man joins the Wild Pack in providing security for the air show being put in celebration of the king.
Much to everyone's surprise, the jets on display begin deploying ULTIMATUM paratroopers who begin opening fire on the crowd.

While the Wild Pack return fire, Silver Sable and Spider-Man pull the king and Vivian to the safety of the castle.

When the terrorists storm the palace, Spider-Man and Sable join the Wild Pack in fending them off.
While everyone is distracted, Prime Minister Limka prepares to kill the king.
However, before he can, a feral man leaps out of the shadows and slaughters the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, two ULTIMATUM agents manage to reach King Stefan and Vivian.
When they open fire, Vivian pushes her would-be husband out of the way and is fatally shot.

Silver Sable comes rushing in and kills the two agents.
Spider-Man pushes himself to the limits to take down the rest of the terrorists and then consoles Silver Sable.
While the king mourns the loss of his bride-to-be, one of the Wild Pack shows Silver Sable and Spider-Man the remains of the Prime Minister.
Silver Sable is furious at this death, as it will weaken her government.
That's when the Wild Pack also report that they discovered a secret passage way, however it was empty.
However, they found a scrap of a uniform with a capsule stuck to it. Sable wants it to be analyzed but
suspects that it is a capsule of panadoxin, a synthetic poison used in suicide pills specially used by the CIA.

Script by David Michelinie. Art by Todd McFarlane.