#22,554: Web of Spider-Man (1985) #34
"Fourth and Eternity"
Title: Web of Spider-Man (v1)
Editor-in-Chief:
Tom DeFalco
Editor:
Jim Salicrup
Writer:
Jim Shooter
Artist:
Sal Buscema
Inker:
Vincent Colletta
Cover Artist:
Steve Geiger
Colorist:
Janet Jackson
Letterer:
Rick Parker
Cover Date: January 1988
Release Date: September 1987
Pages: 22
Cover Price: $0.75
Times Read: 288
Times Rated: 181
Universe:
Earth-616
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tengohead
+1
Feb 28, 2026
It's funny to imagine Shooter seeing this on the stands a few months after he was fired as EIC. And I wonder if he scripted it before or after he cursed out Sal Buscema for refusing to draw the wedding issue. Anyway I thought this was way better than the Statue of Liberty's missing torch issue.
Brodir
+1
Aug 30, 2025
I'd like to know how this game of jocks and pee wees started. Spidey should have left each of those bigger kids with some bruises. It was a fun little story that almost had a late Ditko feel.
JonahBlack
+2
Aug 28, 2025
This was fairly dumb, but it was charming enough for 2 stars... until that Twilight Zone ending compelled me to give it a bonus star.
Jsarich
+1
Dec 3, 2024
What a joker
MJJMayor
+4
Nov 15, 2024
"It is said that the oath of a watcher is absolute." Sir you've clearly not met Uatu.
HeffElf
+3
Apr 20, 2024
Is that the first mention of crack in the order?
ajthejj
+4
Oct 29, 2023
Geez... and I thought I was a curmudgeon but based on many of these comments, I'm a ray of freaking sunshine.
I thought this was harmless fun filler.
I thought this was harmless fun filler.
dadoodoflow
+3
Jul 23, 2023
One of those moments I'm relieved that MU is missing this issue and I'm excused from having to read this
GurS
+3
Apr 20, 2025
Bad news, it's on there now!
dadoodoflow
+2
Feb 15, 2026
Sadly
bastos
+3
Sep 11, 2022
Worst summary ever:
Watcher is overmatched by lame villain - so they watch Spider-Man play touch football with a bunch of children. Yes.
Watcher is overmatched by lame villain - so they watch Spider-Man play touch football with a bunch of children. Yes.
Marksman
+5
Apr 1, 2021
Uatu is one Watcher you don't want to mess with. He actually becomes involved...
go2shaw
+9
Jan 20, 2021
Another comic I'm slightly embarrassed to mark as "read". Oh well, at least it's Shooter's last Marvel Comic!
Don't let the door hit you on the way out Jim...
Don't let the door hit you on the way out Jim...
Russ
+6
Jan 8, 2021
This story made me want to go out and unnecessarily rough whomever produced this. 2 stars
MattDog37
+6
Dec 6, 2019
I am stunned to see so many positive comments for this rubbish issue.
bigkat5582
+6
Aug 27, 2019
I know this is objectively not good for moving forward any story but it was really fun for a relative filler issue.
masu485
+4
Jun 3, 2019
Yeah I liked this a lot too. I appreciate a lighter story after the recent run.
Jan 31, 2019
Maybe I love football too much, but this was great.
kent18
+4
Apr 2, 2018
Three stars. I obviously shouldn't be rating it that highly, in and of itself... but after three consecutive issues of Ann Nocenti, pretty much anything reads like vintage Neil Gaiman in comparison.
Shocker
+4
Mar 30, 2018
Just like Super Bowl LI...
TStarnes
+3
Mar 11, 2018
This seems wildly pointless, a little patronizing with the "teamwork wins"/underdog story, and kinda out of the blue after two very involved Spider-Man arc. The only thing that kept it from a 1 star was the Watcher at the end.
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Despite my absolute love for football, I've utterly loathed this issue going all the way back to the first time I read it at age 11. I didn't know a Shooter from a Claremont from a Michelinie back then, but I just instinctively knew this was garbage.