I'll be spending the next several days taking "a long winter's nap", but before I take my mini-breather, a Christmas greeting from my favorite web-slinger. After defeating the Manhattan rampage of Stegron and his pack of reanimated dinosaurs, the epilogue* of the tale finds a window-peeping Spider-Man delivering a gift to the beleaguered family of Curt Connors (who'd just transformed back from his villainous identity of The Lizard)...then pulling a "Tiny Tim" in a rare moment of non-angst!
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* Outside of comics and Quinn Martin TV detective shows,
was the term "epilogue" used anywhere else? Ever?
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How close to Rockerfeller Center does the Connors family live?
Posted by: JalapenoJaime | December 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM
How long is it before Spidey's webbing dissolves? I hope the Connors look out their window soon! (Or that the window doesn't frost over).
Posted by: Ivan Wolfe | December 24, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Isn't this the same issue where Harry Osborn & Liz Allan get engaged?
Posted by: John Trumbull | December 24, 2008 at 09:03 PM
Merry Christmas Mark and thanks for a very entertaining blog!
Posted by: Rick | December 25, 2008 at 05:09 AM
It's about time somebody remembers Scrooge reforms at the end of that story.
Posted by: ShadowWing Tronix | December 25, 2008 at 05:23 PM
A Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Posted by: WesC | December 25, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Nice sentiments. This is from the Len Wein/Andru & Esposito era of Spidey, the era where I finally stopped buying issues. Wein was a good writer at DC but he just didn't seem to "get" Spiderman, and his stories could have just have easily been Batman stories.
Hope you and yours had a great Christmas, Mark, and look forward to more Comic Coverage next year!
Posted by: Pat Curley | December 27, 2008 at 10:24 AM