COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Amazing Spider-Man 613 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0966999023
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Owner:
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AlphaPrimeIan
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Synopsis: "Power To The People!, Part 2"Our webbed hero sneaks away into the sewer when no-one is looking, and then crawls off to find his street clothes and camera. The photo-journalist in him can smell a story in this.Also retreating from the scene is Electro. He's on the phone to the Thinker begging for help. His power is becoming too much for him. He's too powerful now, and the energy is killing him. The Thinker is not sympathetic. Why is Electro raising a mob, when he should be raising money? The Thinker is thinking about not performing the operation at all. Electro destroys his phone in his rage.Peter's photos don't make it to the front page of the DB!. The headline here concentrates on Electro's threats against Dexter Bennett. Bennett himself is in his apartment surrounded by security guards. He doesn't feel remotely safe, which demonstrates a certain degree of common sense on Bennett's part.Electro strikes when Bennett is in the bath. In addition to subjecting Bennett to a stomach churning tirade of puns based loosely on the theme of electricity, he accuses Bennett of stealing money from the poor. Bennett is confused. Okay, the bail-out for the DB! has left a bitter taste in the mouths of many, but he's small potatoes compared the banks, why come after him? Why? Well, it seems Electro has not completely forgotten his supervillain roots. He wants to shake Bennett down for the million dollars the Thinker needs. With his life and the fate of newspaper at stake, Bennett folds quicker than a cheap picnic table.Back at his apartment, Peter has invented a device that can sniff out the massive power surges that follow Electro around like a bad smell. He tests it by plugging all his appliances into one power outlet and overloading the apartment's circuit. As you can imagine, that doesn't do much to endear him with Michelle.At his secret base the Mad Thinker is simulating the effects of his latest great scheme. It's got something to do with destroying New York city with giant flying Warspheres, or simply "Tuesday" as it's known in the Marvel Universe. The Thinker's assistant Annie is distracted. She doesn't have her mind on the genocidal work at hand because Electro's been looking at her funny. Can't the Thinker just cut him loose? Sadly for Annie it is not to be, as Electro chooses this moment to show up with a million dollars. The Thinker has never been one to refuse a million dollars.Random interlude: as Spidey swings across New York searching for Electro, newlyweds Jay and May Jameson turn up at Peter's apartment to surprise him. They encounter a fuming Michelle who is trying to blow-dry her hair with no electricity. Deciding their not ready for this level of reality, the pair decide to quickly return to their honeymoon.Meanwhile, the Mad Thinker has got Electro wired into the sort of big honking technological doo-hickey that only the Mad Thinker could invent. Annie is still sulking, but she hopes Electro might be a little less dangerous after this procedure. The Thinker doesn't think so! He's not stabilising Electro's powers, he's ramping them up to the nth degree! All the more power for his other insane schemes. Hey, he's a supervillain too, you know.Of course, this degree of supervillain-ry makes Spidey's new power surge detector light up like a Christmas tree. Within minutes he has found the Mad Thinker's hide out. Of course, in true blundering Spidey-fashion, in apprehending the Thinker he destabilises the machine that was 'saving' Electro.Thinks go very wrong, very quickly. Electro escapes and quickly begins to wipe the floor with Spidey. He can even transmit himself electrically along Spidey's webline, effectively teleporting next to him and giving Spidey a nasty shock. The Thinker and Annie decide that discretion is better part of valour and sneak out of harm's way. They return a few minutes later, when Electro has gone, the place is on fire and Spider-Man is unconscious. The Thinker picks up the million dollars and heads to the exit. Annie half-thinks of doing the right thing and saving Spidey, but in the end she leaves him to fry.A little later at the DB! Bennett is dragged in front of Electro's latest webcast. He is juiced up with electrical power, but wants even more. He urges that everyone listening to him turn on all the electrical appliances in they own. He's going to drain the power and use it to go after 'the man'. Yeah, he's coming for Dexter Bennett and the DB!, and with Spidey out of the picture, this must be the end-of-issue cliff-hanger!Released: November 25, 2009
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