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Saturday 10 September 2016
THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #2...
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According to some sources I found, the character who was to be the villain in "The TV Terror" was named "The Stalker". That character was revised a bit and became "The Prowler" in Spider-Man issues #78 and 79.
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Thanks for the info, Rip. The Prowler, eh? I'll have to look up those two issues in Marvel Masterworks.
ReplyDeleteThat may explain the rather rushed looking cover to issue 79of the Amazing Spider-Man as it was probably meant to be concluded one issue in "Spectacular" issue 3 (that cover I assume being issues 78 of "Amazing") - As I recall from the UK SMCW reprint of this story the Prowler was created or suggested by John Romita Junior - As with the last Spectacular Spider-man special ISSUE 1, "Lo this Monster" I wasn't overly impressed with this story either (good but not worth a special edition / version imho)
ReplyDeleteI've read the first issue, but wasn't overly impressed with it. Haven't got around to reading the second issue yet. I wonder if the second issue was likewise adapted for the monthly, or was it merely a retread of earlier tales that had already appeared in Spidey's regular mag?
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ReplyDelete#2, "The Goblin Lives", was also an all-new story and is considered "canon", as it's referenced in later Spider-Man stories.
(It wasn't adapted/modified as #1 was, with the modified version considered "canon".)
Thanks for the info, Britt. I suspect that I read the tale in Spider-Man Comics Weekly (probably spread over at least two issues) back in the '70s, because there's something about the images which seems familiar to me.
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