There's no doubt Amazing Spider-man #209 by Denny O'Neil and Alan Weiss was a filler issue. It was a silly story featuring Kraven and his misses Calypso. By various ways and means she finally gets Kraven to face Spidey. It was a poor and rushed story not helped by Weiss' art which, in my opinion, is not suited to traditional comic-book style.
Rating 3/10
Of much better quality was Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-man #47 and #48 by Roger Stern and Marie Severin. The villains in this two part story were the New Prowler and Belladona last seen in issue 43.
The Prowler is working for Belladona but gets the jitters when he accidentally kills a security guard in the process. Again, just like in the previous issues, Stern takes the time to develop his villains to make them more interesting. The relationship between 'donna and the Prowler was very nicely done. The pacing of the story was also just right. We get to see a few of the regular supporting characters including a happy-go-lucky Aunt May and there's a good cliffhanger linking the issues.
It's also worth noting that yet again that the Fashion villain Roderick Kingsley also features and more details of his past are revealed. I like the fact that this seemingly minor character can develop into a major player - The Hobgoblin.
Finally, I've said before that I didn't enjoy Marie Severin's art. Well these issues were a big improvement on those - probably aided by a fine inking job by Bruce Patterson.
Rating 8/10 for both issues.
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