SPIDERMAN DEL 1 AL 700 (#47)

EN MANOS DEL CAZADOR!

This all takes place, apparently, during the events of Amazing Spider-Man#34, March 1966 and unfortunately it doesn't make any sense. On page 2 panel 1 of that story, Kraven muses, "I can endure the frustration no longer! I must battle and defeat my greatest mortal enemy or else everything that has gone before is but a hollow mockery!" There is no one else around so he is talking to himself... and fooling himself, apparently, if the "payment for Spidey's murder" retcon is to be believed. Of course, Kraven is still in Africa at that point. It is possible that his honor led him back to the USA and then he encountered the Goblin. But when does that happen? Kraven sneaks back into the country and hides out in one of the Chameleon's old joints. He doesn't dare go out in public because he has "been sentenced never to return to these shores." His plan involves impersonating Spider-Man and attacking J. Jonah Jameson. He poses as Spidey in the days ahead, hoping to draw the real Spider-Man into battle. Spidey does go searching for the imposter and finds him. Kraven, as Spidey, leads the wall-crawler over the rooftops to a block of condemned empty buildings. There he reveals himself as Kraven and the battle begins. So there is no time from his departure from Africa to his battle with Spidey where the Green Goblin should have any reason to know he's in the country. But, let's say the Goblin found out somehow and knew where Kraven was hiding and visited him at the Chameleon's place. Does the "flashback" work now? Well, no, because the battle with Spidey is continuous from Kraven's unveiling to his defeat. There is no time for the Hunter to get a visit from the Goblin's mysterious go-between and to trail him to Osborn mansion in Westchester County. Not only that but Kraven has a lot of nerve claiming that Spidey "beat me by a trick" since the web-slinger essentially beat him by pounding the crap out of him. Note that Kraven makes no such claim in the original.

So what are we to make of this? Clearly, Stan didn't look at ASM #34 and he didn't remember the details of the story. I guess he wasn't kidding all those times he told us Marvel didn't keep any of its back issues. And there's no reason why he should remember the details of this story. After all, Stan was writing dozens of stories a month and Ditko plotted that one. Also, there was no reason for Stan to think that the readers would notice the differences. ASM #34 had come out over a year ago and two years was the expected tenure of a reader at that time. Most of those who read the last Kraven story weren't reading this one, right? Well, maybe or maybe not. The fact is that Stan got a little bit careless here. Like it or not, we're stuck with it.

So, anyway, Kraven has been released from prison and he is thirsting for revenge against Spider-Man. But first he plans on taking down the Green Goblin for pride's sake. (Kraven does a lot of this kind of thing.) Breaking into the morgue room at the Daily Bugle, he reads the paper that reports the Goblin's death by fire, along with Spider-Man's involvement. Enraged that he has been cheated of revenge, Kraven smashes up the file cabinets in the morgue and decides to go after Spidey but first... he needs some money. And he knows right where to go to get some. To Norman Osborn, the Goblin's "flunky." He prowls the dark streets of Manhattan, declaring "No need to travel all the way to Westchester to his house. Osborn has an office, right here in the city somewhere. And it won't take Kraven the Hunter long to find it!" (Yeah, but it might still be less time to go to Westchester seeing as he already knows where that house is.)

TÍTULO: Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 # 47

FECHA: 10 de Abril de 1967

ESCRITOR: Stan Lee

DIBUJO:  John Romita Sr.

TINTAS: John Romita Sr.

COLOR: Andy Yanchus

PORTADA: John Romita Sr.

EDITORIAL: Marvel Comics

PÁGINAS: 21

FORMATO: .cbr

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