He thinks he's got Spider-Man, but he messed with the wrong web. welcome welcome everybody to web tales the spider-man podcast we go through the history of the web singer from the very beginning oh a present day and batch uh you're like in mountain green uh mountain dew green i think yes Yes, it's reflecting the light of the Lightmaster, the issue we were doing this week. Yes. We're giving it a brand. Because we are the number one Spidey-related podcast hosted by two Canadians.
where we recap classic issues with amazing spider-man and we're going back we've been in present day last couple episodes where uh we've been doing uh ultimate spider-man so we're going back in time we're going back to spectacular number 20. we had a storyline to finish we didn't finish Yes, that sounds like us. Yeah. But hey, we eventually finished them all. Unlike WWE, who just drops angles. Yes. Not so much nowadays, but back in the Vince days. Back in the Vince days.
So death waits in Lightmaster's lair. He's doing his own chest expansion there. Yeah, but light comes out of him. It's like a Seamus entrance. Fella! It's fight night! Fella! Do you agree that Sheamus was insufferable when he was like a world champion babyface? When he beat Daniel Bryan?
Yes, but now I just want him to win the Intercontinental title already. Yeah. Now I like Sheamus, but back then I was like, he's the worst. He needs his Grand Slam. Yeah. WrestleMania is around the corner. Yep. That's where stories are made. Exactly. But as always on WebTales, we like to highlight the creative teams of the issues we recap. So this issue of Where Were You When the Lights Went Out is the story by Bill Mantelow, Sal Basima, and Mike Esposito. Art is I Want the Nubby.
Litterer was Don Warfield. Colorist is the shooter himself, Jim Shooter. Which is weird to see Sal Bushima in the story and not the art. Yes. We start the issue with Spidey listening in on the interrogation of the enforcers. Last issue, they took a bunch of hostages at a cafe.
yes and uh it was a huge plot from the light master to try to find out who spider-man is exactly and that's a new ox it's not the original ox it's a new ox which i don't know what happened we have to have to do my research to find out what happened to original ox I think he died in a Daredevil issue. I think that's what they said. Now there's a new Dumber Ox. I don't know, is it again from the Dumb Multiverse or something? How can you get a Dumber from the original Ox? It's a feat, definitely.
So Spidey's checking out on them, and they're all being arraigned. Yeah, they're getting questioned by the police. They're like, yeah, so why just take a bunch of students and do it? Make an ultimatum to Spider-Man? It's not our job to think. We were following orders. Well, whose orders? Well, that'd be telling. Exactly. So, looks like not Captain Stacy.
Looks like he smoked 28 cigarettes in the last hour. Exactly. And Ox is tired. He wants to go to bed. So he starts crashing through the window. Yeah. I want bed. And that's when they press the knockout gas button because every police station has the knockout gas. They got Craven CBD on tap. Yeah. He must charge a lot to the city to sell the Craven CBD.
Well, that's how he powers the Kraven cover, right? Champions isn't going to pay for itself. It needs multiple revenue streams. Yes. So yeah, then Ox complains that, no, they can't. It ain't fair. And Francis Dan says, we lose, but we ain't squealed on the boss. So they kept their mouth shut. And probably they're going to wake up with healthy headaches, but the cops still don't know why they did all this. Yeah.
Spidey doesn't know either. So he's swinging away in the rain. Wondering who hired them and how they know Spiderman response. And why is this mystery man? What is this mystery man playing next? Yeah, because Spidey lives in a shithole, he's crawling in through his skylight, and the wet plaster can't hold his weight, and he falls. Yeah, but basically the ceiling partially crumbles. Yeah, he wakes up his cranky landlady.
who starts barging at the door and uh peter shows up with just a towel on and all wet and he's like oh yeah i was taking a shower and then the ceiling just craved in i got eyes And she says it's his fault for leaving the skylight open. Which, fair enough. Yeah, the steam for the shower weakened the plaster. This is all your fault. So she basically... Peter has to fix it himself the next day. And she'll be nice enough not to deduct it from his rent. She doesn't want to get sued. Yeah.
So luckily his identity is safe and he's putting his costume on the radiator to dry. He's got class at two. Meanwhile, at another abandoned factory. this one's a light ink huh what a great place for a light master to hide a light company yes there no no one would think of that So I guess he's analyzing the tapes of what happened. Think of how expensive his outfit would be because this is before LEDs. Yeah, we just got a whole bunch of light bulbs to put on.
So Lightmaster thinks that Hector Ayala is Spider-Man. Yeah, because he was just hanging out when the enforcers were beating up Spider-Man. Yeah. So Lightmaster... Want some revenge, because in his last fight with Spider-Man, something happened and turned him into a being of pure, unstable energy. He truly is the Lightmaster now. Which I mean would that be a bad thing being being of energy does that make him like Dave is easy like gay man terrible joke
I'll buzz myself for that one. Back at the university, Peter has a cold. And he gets introduced to Hector Aiella. Yeah. And his friend Holly. Holly? Holly. Yeah. Which he remembers from the demonstration over the closing of the night school. Check the archives, folks, for that issue. Yeah, don't we know each other? Yeah, you're at the demonstration at the closing of the night school. Yeah, that's right. So...
Yeah, Peter's talking to them. Hector's friend says she kind of likes Peter. She digs him. But just they're talking, a giant cage falls on Hector. What the? I guess it's a cage of light. And in the battle, Hector's amulet gets broken off, which gives him his powers.
so we can't turn into a white tiger yeah and uh yeah peter tries to like you know be heroic but he can't be too heroic right all right so he gets blasted in the chest with some light and uh well during that he threw a creepy crawler onto hector of course So then Lightmaster takes off with Hector and Peter tries to save him. And he's got the amulet. Peter's got the amulet.
uh so speaking attorney to white tiger could be white spider white spider nice coming soon from uh the playstation store the white spider outfit for spider-man 2. Yeah, only $19.99. It's the closest we're going to get to DLC for that game. Yeah, they gave up. They're done with it, I guess. Yeah. Maybe it means we'll get another Spider-Man game faster. Mm-hmm. All right, so, Pierce.
Spidey's following his spider sense, the creepy crawler. And he turns around and sees a giant light bulb building. So it's like, oh, hit me with a brick. How unsubtle can you get? Duh. What is he, a Batman villain? Almost. Why did Lightmaster just draw me a roadmap? Basically did. So, yeah. Hector's not doing so good without his amulet. He's kind of sick. Yeah, and he's like, tell me, I'm not Spider-Man. I'm Puerto Rican. I'm sick. So my Puerto Rican could be Spider-Man.
But I got the amulet, so I think it does something special. I've seen them before. Actor must be who I think he is. So Lightmaster gets a whole bunch of cameras to point at him and go on TV. to brag like uh haha i found the identity of spider-man and it's this guy he's gonna do spider-man things and we're all blasting with some light yeah so Hector's friend, Holly, is like, oh no, he can't be Spider-Man. And, well, just in time, Spidey lowers the amulet and gives a little... Yeah.
What would you call that? An Italian thumbs up? He gives him the okay. Yeah. That doesn't mean he's a white supremacist, though. Doesn't mean what? It doesn't mean he's a white supremacist, though. No. No. This is okay with it. Yep. So, yeah, Lightmaster's going on about his supervillain monologue. Yes. And... Turns around and, oh, wait, the white tiger's here. Yeah, or white Spider-Man. It's like, I told you you were making a mistake, senor. Hector Yala is not Spider-Man. He is the white tiger.
Wait, I'm revealing your secret identity in television. Yeah. And then Flash is like, what? We did get unmetting of a superhero, but the wrong one. Then Hector deceived me. He lied to me. I hate him. I never want to see him again. I guess that's it for that character. Or that's going to make him irresistible to her, because that's how these comics work. That's how it works with Peter. Yes. So, yeah, now we're...
Lightmasters getting double teamed by Spidey and White Tiger. Yeah. It's funny how you can punish a being of light somehow. But well, it's funny. Again, White Tiger's just watching in the background.
Yeah, it's chilling. Not really doing anything. Yeah, Spider-Man's doing everything, avoiding giant blade hands and hammer fists. Mm-hmm. And... yeah spidey ends up getting trapped in the giant light bulb outside the building yep like wait shit how'd i get in here so uh light master's goal now is to just heat up the light bulb until spider-man melts because apparently the bulb was made of unbreakable plastic again because this was before leds so it'd be just a really hot bulb yep
And White Tiger's like, I guess I should do something now. So then he actually pounces on Lightmaster. Yeah. But in the end, he didn't really do much because Lightmaster ended up... Short-circuiting the entire city. So his power died and therefore Lightmaster has no energy. He just destroyed himself. So... And that's the end of the issue. That's it. Hands right there. White Tiger not doing much and Lightmaster defeating himself. Yep.
So, Batch, what are you going to give this legendary issue of Spectacular Spider-Man? Oh, I will give this issue six and a half. Jesus! Out of ten. On the same big scale. It's a new era. We got to institute a new scale. We got to need the Zandik scale. We need lots of scales. Yes. I will give it five tiger amulets on ten. Mostly because he'll just defeat himself. And the Lightmaster gets one. Out of ten. Yeah. Oh no, I'm sorry. Yep.
Get the fuck off the stage. Get the fuck off the stage. I always felt he was close to saying that. Yeah. He wanted to. I guess that's it for this week, Batch. That was a quick issue. It was a quick issue.
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