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.
tomado de http://www.spiderfan.org
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
PÁGINAS: 21
FORMATO: .cbr
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