Pencils: Winslow Mortimer
Inker: Mike Esposito
Review: Madman
I heard angels sing!
I’ve been collecting Spider-Man comics for twenty eight years, give or take a few days, and I’ve only glimpsed a few issues of Spidey Super Stories from afar. I had zero issues in my collection until this fateful day, and for a buck nonetheless.
Spidey Super Stories are brought to you via a super team-up between Marvel, The Electric Company, and the letter Q.
Seriously though, this is already a winning combo.
Before we even get to the campy goodies within the pages, lets talk about how rad this cover is with Dr. Doom, Moondragon, and Spidey wielding what appears to be a red lightsaber…
Definitely winning.
The story itself starts off as a lot of Spidey books do with Peter out on a date with MJ, sucking face, when suddenly a rocket ship crashes a few feet away and out pops Sam, the Sesame Street robot. It turns out Sam was flying around with Moondragon in her space rocket when they picked up a strange signal coming from behind the Moon. They decided to investigate, zipped behind the Moon, and discovered a large space station the size of a planet.
A space station that looks oddly familiar to another spherical planet-sized space station I’ve seen somewhere before...
The unlikey duo board the space station and are immediately set upon by an army of robots. Then Dr. Doom shows up and delivers one of the greatest lines in comic book history, directed towards Moondragon. The ruler of Latveria exclaims, “Lock-up time, Baldy-Locks!”
Get it...
Cause Moondragon is bald…
Ha!
Sam escapes and heads back to Earth in search of reinforcements, finding them in the form of Spider-Man. Spidey and Sam then fight off a few robots that followed Sam back to Earth.
Meanwhile, back out in space, Dr. Doom is revealing his evil plan. It involves a certain red lever on his space station that opens the space station’s Pac-Man-like mouth, complete with large chompy teeth, that will eat up the Earth.
Oh, yeah, we named his space station Star Jaws…
Oh, yeah, winning!
The farce goes on as soon Marvel Boy and a space gorilla show up flying around in a space ship that looks like that one ship that made Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs…
What’s more, they’re pursued by evil robots in ships that suggest they could destroy a star or two. Sam and Spidey join up with Marvel Boy and the Space Gorilla, and they head into the Star Jaws. After loads more campy dialogue and evil robot-bashing, we get the climatic lightsaber duel between Dr. Doom and Spidey as promised on the cover…
Of course, the good guys win and the Star Jaws explodes in more glorious winning.
I can literally die happy now….so much winning.
In all seriousness this, without a doubt, is the greatest comic book I have ever had the privilege of reading. There is so much winning in this single issue of Spidey Super Stories that tracking down the rest of the series is now my only purpose in life.
Because with this much winning, you can’t lose.
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