Monday, 15 October 2007

The Return of Cloak and Dagger




Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-man #69 & #70 by Mantlo/Hannigan/Milgrom (from 1982)

These were good issues. Firstly both covers are very good but especially issue 70. The art inside was tip-top too. Hannigan definitely invokes a Ditko flavour and, combined with Al Milgrom on inks, I like his style a lot.

Mantlo's story which not only involves C & D (recently introduced in issue #64), but also a robocop Silvermane and, in the background creating mayhem, The Kingpin, is a good one. He does tend to use a few too many captions, but that could be just reading from todays perspective where they are seldom used.

C & D are not my favourite characters, but I seem to recall that this story is the first in a number where C & D, Silvermane and Kingpin all make trouble for Spidey in one way or another.

Rating 7.5/10

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