SPIDERMAN DEL 1 AL 700 (#48)

LAS ALAS DEL BUITRE

The story begins with Spidey on patrol, looking for Kraven the Hunter. (Spidey, you'll recall, rescued Norman Osborn from the Hunter, which, in the long term, you'd have to agree, turned out to be a big mistake.) "Can't let that tin-horn Tarzan go through life thinking he's beaten me," he says (which Kraven sort of did even if he had to resort to his double-barreled-turns-muscles-to-mush ray to do it.) The weather has turned cold and the snow is coming down in great clumps. This worries our hero, NOT because his long johns aren't very warm but because the snowfall muffles his spider-sense. (So, the spider-sense works like... footsteps?) Lost in thought, (such thoughts consist of: 1. A feeling "that the deadliest fight of my life will soon be coming up!" 2. It's not as cold if he moves fast since "as soon as I start slowing down, it's freezeville!" 3. Since webbing is so expensive, he might as well leap over the rooftops rather than swing over), Peter doesn't notice that he has swung all the way to Municipal Prison. (Where the heck is this prison anyway? Central Park?) This calls him back to himself and, having failed to find Kraven, he decides to go home and hit the sack.

Inside the prison, an old convict lies near death because of a mishap in the prison workshop. The doctor says he cannot live more than an hour but the old man hangs on to life, waiting to speak in private with his cellmate, Blackie Drago. The old man is the Vulture and he promises himself that he "won't cash in until I make sure that Blackie will finish the job I started." He chides himself for not bothering to escape since his sentence was up in another month. Now Blackie will have to escape in his place.

Soon after, Blackie Drago, a scowling, heavy-lidded man with curly black hair, is ushered into the room. The doctor tells him that the Vulture is hanging by a thread but Blackie doesn't seem particularly concerned about it. When he enters the hospital room, Blackie immediately gets on the Vulture, saying, "This is your last chance! You gonna tell me what I wanna know or let it just die with ya?" Blackie has hounded the Vulture for months for the location of his last pair of vulture wings. "I swore you'd never get it out of me," says the Vulture. Now, dying, he gives in, obsessed with the idea of someone destroying Spider-Man for him. But when the Vulture reveals that his wings are stashed just outside the prison ("500 yards from north gun tower near broken pines. I did it months ago so I'd have an extra pair in case police jailed me." Had a lot of faith in himself, didn't he?) Blackie gloats that he arranged the workshop accident that hospitalized the old man, hoping to grab the wings for himself. Now, he will be the new Vulture. Drago taunts his cellmate as he leaves. ("S'long, Vulch! It was nice talking with ya! Yeah, real nice!") The old Vulture rises up on an elbow and reaches out toward Blackie but lacks the strength to fight back. He settles back in his bed and rues his lost opportunity. He is sure he would defeat Spider-Man next time. (And he conjures up some nice Romita illustration-thoughts of punching Spidey in the snoot and kicking the webster in the chest.) Now he'll never have the chance. His only consolation is that Blackie, younger and stronger than he, is sure to destroy the wall-crawler for him.

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TÍTULO: Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 # 48

FECHA: 10 de Mayo de 1967

ESCRITOR: Stan Lee

DIBUJO:  John Romita Sr.

TINTAS: John Romita Sr.

COLOR: Andy Yanchus

PORTADA: John Romita Sr.

EDITORIAL: Marvel Comics

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