COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Amazing Spider-Man 617
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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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0164534015
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Owner:
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AlphaPrimeIan
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Synopsis: "Rage Of The Rhino"Aleksei Sytsevich is the Rhino. Former Russian thug, super-criminal, and these days mostly retired. But life has a nasty way of catching up with popular former Spider-Villains, especially when the Family Kravinoff is planning to assembled a collection of classic foes to run Spider-Man through the Gauntlet. Though that still lies a few issues ahead.But back to Aleksei. He's passing a happy morning at home in the suburbs of New York with his beloved lady, "Oksana", before heading off to work. It's a scene of domestic bliss. But miles distant, another less pleasant scene is playing out. A couple of gang bosses are watching a lethal demonstration as the Rhino (or perhaps we should say, "a" Rhino) proves that he's a mean gray killing machine. A killing machine created by scientist Doctor Trama, a sexy Asian woman in a tight body-suit. Now that's my kind of scientist.Hang on, you say. Isn't some guy named Spider-Man supposed to be in this comic too? Well, we'll have to settle for Peter Parker for a moment. He's having screaming nightmares about lions. His supportive (yeah right!) flatmate Michelle comes rushing in with a shotgun. She's that kind of girl. She's also the kind of girl who alternates between hitting Peter and hitting on him. They had some kind of romantic thing a while back, and she's still not sure if she wants to re-ignite the relationship, or just ignite Peter.Anyhow, Peter's late for work as usual. As well as being press photog. for Mayor Jonah Jameson, he's also moonlighting at "Front Line", the independent newspaper run by Ben Urich. Ben offers Peter a permanent position, but Peter has to think about it. While he's thinking, sassy Frontline reporter Norah grabs him and wheels him out to work on a story with her. Not only that, Norah offers Peter the chance to work on her directly at the upcoming New Years Eve party. Sure, Norah is dating Randy Robertson. But he's out of town, and Norah's prepared to be flexible.Interlude: Back to the Rhino, and we learn that this Rhino is bigger, meaner and madder than we've ever seen. This ain't yer pappy's Rhino. Of course, whenever there's a new version of any villain, they're always bigger, badder and meaner. Except for possibly the Kangaroo. But in general, I mean. Anyhow, this "new" Rhino receives an anonymous phone call offering to tell him the location of the old Rhino. It's clear that the new wishes to destroy the old and take his rightful place in the pantheon. Same old, same old.And... jump back to Peter and Norah. What's this story she's investigating? Well, it turns out the "story" is $100 of free credit offered to reporters to come and check out a brand new casino. Norah bets, wins, bets, and wins some more. Peter is kind of freaked out, not being the gambling kind, and ends up attracting the attention of casino security. Which is to say, Aleksei Sytsevich. In a Rhino suit? Nope. In a dinner jacket. All fancy-like.So if Aleksei Sytsevich is no longer the Rhino, then who's this eight-foot tall giant grey armor-plated super-villain who just crashed through the wall of the casino? Hmm... must definitely be some other guy.As alluded to earlier, the new Rhino wants to fight Aleksei in order to take his "skin" and "ascend". Everybody has a spiritual side, I guess. Spider-Man turns up and dances with the new Rhino, but Aleksei meanwhile is not in the mood for fighting. He has a new life. If the new guy wants to take over, that's just AOK by him. But the new kid isn't going to settle for that. He tells Aleksei that he will force him to resume his skin and fight the new version. Then he activates his turbo-jets (yeah, the new Rhino has turbo-jets) and gets the heck out of there before Spidey can figure out which way is up.So, what is Aleksei going to do now? He's naturally worried that the new Rhino will attack his beloved Oksana. Instinct tells him to put the suit back on and head-butt his way out of trouble. But Spider-Man (after finally being convinced that Aleksei really is looking to make a new life for himself) persuades Sytsevich that discretion is the better part of keeping your family safe, and the Rhino agrees to go deeper into hiding and leave his old life behind.Back to the new Rhino. He's on the phone to Mrs. Kravinoff once more, she now being revealed as the anonymous caller from earlier in the issue. He's mad because he didn't get the chance to prove himself, to ascend. But fear not. She has plenty more plans in the making...Released: January 13, 2010
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