Web of Spider-Man #20 Marvel Comics (1986) Newsstand Anniversary Cover

Writers: David Michelinie

Artists: Bob McLeod, Marc Silvestri

Characters: Joy Mercado, Margaret Thatcher, Spider-Man

We start straight in with the action. Pete and Joy have landed at Heathrow Airport, London and a bomb has gone off. There are also terrorists with guns – although calling an Irish terrorist ‘Paddy’ is perhaps a stereotype too far.As Joy tries to do an interview with a police guy in the middle of the shoot- out (not realistic), Pete dashes off and, not wanting to compromise his secret identity too much, uses his webbing from a hidden location to disarm the final terrorist.Back with Joy, Pete is told that the terrorists were members of the Provos – the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) – and that their leader escaped. The last shot from the airport is one of a six-year-old reaching out for her dead mother.Outside and JJJ has laid a limo on for our intrepid reporters. Joy gives us a bit of a history lesson on the IRA and they make their way to the hotel. After some more stereotyping “Ere ya are, squire,” says the bellboy, and some inaccurate problems for Pete with money (farthings…

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