Script by Danny
Fingeroth and Art by Jim Mooney.
It took Dom, 3
and a bit years to return to comics and he is working with Spider-Man again. With
Howard Chaykin back to provide a cover. Spidey has gotten a new black suit
(surely nothing could go wrong with that).
The story opens
in 1940, Dom and Sabbath are doing the Brigand for Hire fighting Nazi agents before
America entered the war and capture German Baron Wolfgang Von Lundt.
Dom is
remembering this as some street thugs are chasing him. Dom manages to tackle two of the three when
Spider-Man stops the third using a gun and takes Fortune to medical attention.
The thugs
return to their employer Simon Steele, who we discover is actually Wolfgang Von
Lundt. The thugs report that Spider-Man
was involved.
Peter Parker
visits Dom in the hospital and Fortune’s son is visiting trying to get his Dad
back in a retirement home.
Steele hires
the Shocker to kill Dom and if Spider-Man was collateral damage well there’s a
bonus for that.
After Dom is
released, he visits Peter at the Bugle looking to get the paper’s archives for
clues. We discover that Sabbath Raven was born Gina Morelli (what it wasn’t her
birthname?) and was recorded going missing in 1942 while travelling in Europe.
Dom is about to
head to Europe to follow the over 40 year old trail (the story seems to be set
in 1985, the flashback to 1940 was 45 years ago.) When the Shocker
strikes. There’s a fight Shocker and
some goons are captured.
We see Steele
talking to a woman named Sabbath and the mystery deepens…
I had this when
it came out I remember the roll of quarters.
Steele and his connection to Sabbath is going to be interesting. Mooney draws Dom with a little more hair than
we saw in Marvel Team Up. Old man Dom
does not put on his swashbuckling outfit.
There are a
couple other subplots from the Spiderman series but generally this is a good
stand alone story.
We are told
that Dom is 70 years old making his birth year 1915 (that’ll be important
later).
Where next for
this mystery? Not Spider-Man but Iron
Man.
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