Amazing Spider-Girl #20

 


Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Ron Frenz

Synopsis: A new hate group forms at May's high school. 

Comments: Per the cover, Teen-Age Romance, Tales of Suspense and Amazing Fantasy were all Marvel comic books that ran in the 1960s with some revivals here and there. Tales of Suspense introduced Iron Man and ran Captain America's Silver Age adventures. Amazing Fantasy introduced Spider-Man, so it's fitting Spider-Girl is next to it on the cover. 

Peter teaching his daughter a useful life skill: how to make webbing. Much better than teaching her how to drive. 



Moose has gone full J. Jonah Jameson. It reminds me of how Jameson was responsible for the creation of the Scorpion and entered into an alliance with Smythe and his Spider-Slayers. 


Humanity First is probably a next generation incarnation of Friends of Humanity. 




Eve Manning looks like Sonya Jade as she was unmasked in The Buzz #1. It could be her under an alias since the head of Humanity First is named Eve Manning. A bit on the nose. 





May's evasive maneuver up the fire escape is similar to what she did in Spider-Girl #35. 




The beginning of a new Clone Saga. The title of this storyline is "Brand New May", which is a play on the storyline "Brand New Day", which dealt with the aftereffects of the erasure of Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane after he made a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May. In this interview, Tom DeFalco said he never read that Spider-Man storyline undoing his marriage. 




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