The Amazing Spider-Girl: The Dance

 


Writer: Tom Defalco
Penciller: Ron Lim

Synopsis: While planning and attending a high school dance, Spider-Girl has to contend with Claw, the world's greatest cat burglar. 

Comments: This a prose story from Amazing Spider-Man Magazine. I got the story in full from frogoat's blog. frogoat places it after Amazing Spider-Girl #13, so I'm doing that as well. 

The format of this story is a throw back to the text stories that were published in comics in 40s and 50s. According to Paul Kupperberg, they were apparently used as a loophole to get cheaper postal service in shipping comics. Stan Lee's first comic book credit was a Captain America text story. Tapping into nostalgia factors, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore have also done text stories. Alan Moore does not surprise me since his love of old super hero stories is well documented. 

Spider-Girl's comment about about Claw looking like a young Keanu Reeves in The Matrix is funny since Reeves was 35 when the first Matrix movie came out and in Amazing Spider-Girl #27, May considers 30 to be ancient. Anyway, Spider-Girl is fancasting. 

Heather and Jimmy's tryst in the locker room is funny since May had earlier compared them to her parents and May doesn't want to think about what they might do in the locker room because it might by extension may make her think of her parents. May was grossed out at the thought of her parents being sexual beings in Spider-Girl #38. 

Good for Meagyn getting a dance with Wes and having a good time. 

Wes wanting to ask May to the dance and the dance they have at the end of the story foreshadows their eventual relationship. 

It's canon, so this is Claw's second and last appearance, outside of an illusion in Amazing Spider-Girl #15. 


Comments

  1. frogoatJanuary 19, 2022 at 4:22 PM

    I'm terribly flattered and humbled that you'd take what I say as given. My placement for this story originated on Ron's comments from the Spider-Girl Message Board; he pointed out the Dance is foreshadowed in the prior Amazing Spider-Girl issue by Davida.

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    1. RichardJanuary 19, 2022 at 5:12 PM

      Well, it all worked out! There's an upcoming issue where I used my own continuity to justify not covering it sooner. Reviewing a prose story was a nice change of pace and I like issues that let me get into the history of comics a bit more.

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