Set Description:
It's finally finished thanks to so many great people who helped me complete this goal.
The first book I purchased was #4 from an online site, December 18th 2012 and the final book, #9, arrived from CGC this morning October 16th 2014. So just under 22 months.
I had so much help, and met so many awesome people here completing this set. The inspiration was the insane task Marvelfangirl started with her Wolverine s/s run. Too many people to thank came out of the woodwork and sent links to books and helped with leads. Rich Henn is a true beast when it comes to finding raw books in high grade, he did so much searching and found some true beauties in the wild, newsstands no less, including the one and only #30. Cheetah sold me his registry set and when I used the 8 books he had that I needed to combine the two sets, I was able to make the best looking set possible. With the help of Greggy as well who sold me a junky run of #1-3 that had nicer cuts than the ones I had or whatever.
letsgrumble traded me the second last book which was #34, and the very last book came from 69CamaroZ28. He sent me a raw copy of #9 on his own dime, in hopes of helping me finish the set.
At the risk of sounding Batscat crazy, I now pronounce myself the 'King of the Spiderwomen' !!!
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Spider-Woman 1 |
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Spider-Woman 1 |
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CGC |
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1171157023
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Owner Comments
"...A Future Uncertain!"
Spider-Woman is inside a grocery store after closing hours thinking of stealing food. She continues to contemplate what to do with her life and who she really is and decides not to steal. Sneaking out of the store, she is confronted by Jerry Hunt, who tries to stop her. However, Spider-Woman manages to escape, although Jerry manages to grab her mask and pull it off, and swears that he's seen her face before. Returning to the apartment that she lives in (all too aware of everyone's fear of her) Spider-Woman retires for the night.
She dreams of the brief time she spent with Modred the Mystic the Mystic and the facts about her past that he revealed: How she wasn't one of the New Men (as was thought by Otto Vermis), but a real girl: Jessica Drew, the daughter of Jonathan and Merriem Drew. They worked with Herbert Wyndham (later known as the High Evolutionary) on Wundagore Mountain. Jessica fell victim to radiation poisoning, and her father treated her. Her mother, however, would eventually die. Failing to find a cure for Jessica's condition, Jonathan would leave Wundagore, leaving Wyndham to try and find a cure for the girl's radiation poisoning. Infusing her with the DNA of a spider, he put her in suspended animation for years, slowing her aging process until she developed an immunity the radiation and would rise with the fantastic powers she would later use as Spider-Woman. The rest of Jessica's past was just as Vermis had told her.
The next day, Jessica tries to find a job, but during her job-hunting she is spotted once more by Jerry Hunt, who once more tries to stop her. Jessica changes into Spider-Woman and makes her escape. Deciding to disguise herself once more, she creates a new mask and dyes her hair black. Going out as Spider-Woman once more, she would later find Jerry trying to stop some crooks who are armed with hi-tech lasers. Jerry is injured in the fight, and Spider-Woman swoops in and comes to his rescue. Knocking out the crooks, she is soon confronted by officers of Scotland Yard, who Jerry tells to have her arrested.
Spider-Woman grabs the injured Jerry and flies away to a hospital, where she administers a blood transfusion giving him some of her fast-healing blood for a faster recovery. Spider-Woman leaves the scene, leaving Jerry to wonder at the truth behind this mysterious woman.
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Spider-Woman 2 |
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Spider-Woman 2 |
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CGC |
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1171157026
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Owner Comments
"A Sword In Hand!"
Jessica Drew, as Spider-Woman, finds herself drawn to Britain's Natural History Museum in London, and specifically towards Morgan le Fay's Excalibur. However before she can pull the sword out of the stone, she is confronted by officers of Scotland Yard and is forced to flee. This gives Jason "Slapper" Struthers, a moment alone to pull the sword out himself. In doing so, he is connected through the ages to Morgan le Fay, who chooses him to be her tool in the modern age. She sends the soul of a knight to possess Struthers' body changing him into her warrior, Excalibur. When the police officers hear the commotion, Excalibur attacks them, drawing Spider-Woman back to defend them, but she is knocked out by one of his mystical blasts for long enough to allow him to escape.
Later, as Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman attempts to find employment with minimual success. Walking the streets of London she is drawn into the shop of Charles Magnus, who promises to read her fortune for free. He tells her that he sees a great destiny in store for her. Meanwhile, Mordan le Fay causes Struthers to transform into Excalibur once more and sends him on a rampage towards Magnus' shop to destroy a book of spells. This attracts the attention of SHIELD agent Jerry Hunt, and Jessica Drew, who goes into action as Spider-Woman. She battles Excalibur and manages to defeat him, knocking the sword from his hand and causing Excalibur to revert back into Struthers.
After the battle, Magnus convinces Spider-Woman to join him in traveling to America, a request she accepts. However, she leaves a note for Jerry advising her where she has gone, pinned to Struthers' sweater. In reading the note, Hunt decides to take a leave of absence from his work with Scotland Yard to go to America.
This story is continued next issue...
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Spider-Woman 3 |
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Spider-Woman 3 |
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CGC |
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0216001002
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Owner Comments
"The Peril of -- Brother Grimm"
Los Angeles, California, and a pair of costumed twins called the Brother Grimm are terrorizing a stage production of Hansel and Gretel and rob the audience of their valuables. Later they terrorize the home of Senator James T. Wyatt, where they try to blackmail the Senator out of $50,000. When the Senator complied, he was locked in a safe to die. Meanwhile, Jessica Drew and her friend Magnus arrive in Los Angeles, where Jessica begins looking for a job and lodgings as well as continuing her search for her father.
With Magnus's help, Jessica finds out that her father is dead, but assumes that Magnus is manipulating her. However, Magnus advises her that he only wishes to help her learn the truth behind her father's death. The two of them end up taking rooms with Priscilla Dolly, an eccentric landlady who has two sons named Jacob and William.
That night as Spider-Woman, Jessica breaks into police headquarters to find information on her father, and takes a whole file. Taking it home (after overhearing Senator Wyatt complaining to the police about how he was attacked by the Brothers Grimm) she learns that her father worked for a company called Pyro-Technics and that he had ties with the Senator. When Jessica confronts the Senator at his office looking for answers, the Senator tries to shoot her, but she disarms him with a venom blast. Just then, one of the the Brothers Grimm bursts into the room, having realized that Wyatt gave him counterfeit money, he has come violently demanding more.
Defeating Brother Grimm, Spider-Woman flees the scene when she hears police sirens approaching. When the police come to apprehend Brother Grimm, they find him uncooperative. Meanwhile, Senator Wyatt begins to believe that Spider-Woman is a threat, since she overheard Brother Grimm speak about the counterfeit money. On her way back to her apartment, Spider-Woman is once more attacked by Brother Grimm, whom she battles, but finds to be seemingly more jovial than his previous grim demeanor. Grimm tells her to stay out of his affairs, before fleeing the scene. When Jessica returns home to inform Magnus of what happened, she hears a radio announcement proclaiming that Brother Grimm escaped from police custody: A whole hour after she fought him last!
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Spider-Woman 4 |
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Spider-Woman 4 |
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CGC |
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0780188011
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Owner Comments
"Hell is the Hangman!"
Spider-Woman is pondering her lot in life, when she spots Brother Grimm attacking a car being driven by a diamond dealer. Confronting Brother Grimm, he blasts her off the side of a cliff. When she gets control of her gliding and swoops back up, she finds Grimm and the diamonds gone. The diamonds are given to one of Grimm's thugs, who has him plant them in another man's car, douse the unconscious driver with alcohol and dump him off a cliff. However, before he can complete his task, he's confronted by the Hangman, who is told of the scheme. After learning of the plot, the Hangman hangs the crook, and goes off to find Grimm.
The next day, as she is having lunch with Magnus, Priscilla Dolly and her boys, Jessica learns that her father Jonathan briefly boarded in their home, and that William Dolly worked at Pyro-Technics with him. She explains to them that Jonathan is her father, and that he was murdered and she is looking for his killer. When Jessica presses William for more answers, he excuses himself from the table.
Changing into her Spider-Woman costume, Jessica decides to go and check out the connection between her father, Pyro-Technics, and Senator James Wyatt. Wyatt, meanwhile, dismisses his wife and begins making calls to try and eliminate Spider-Woman, while elsewhere Jerry Hunt has arrived in Los Angeles and has begun asking around to see if people have seen Spider-Woman.
As Spider-Woman breaks into the Pyro-Technics building to find more clues, the Hangman attacks one of Brother Grimm's safe houses, and demands that the crooks there tell him everything. Back at Pyro, Jessica accidentally stumbles into a wind tunnel device. She almost gets chopped up in the fan, but thanks to her superhuman strength, she manages to destroy the device. Tracking down William Dolly, she tries to get him to tell her what he knows about Jonathan Drew, but she is attacked by Brother Grimm. During the fight a blaze sparks up, and before Spider-Woman can stop Brother Grimm, she's roped up by the Hangman.
The Hangman has decided to "save" Spider-Woman from Brother Grimm, and leaves the villain to perish in the blaze while he drags the hog-tied Spider-Woman out of the complex. As the building explodes, the Hangman tells her that he will keep her safe forever, in his very own dungeon.
This story is continued next issue...
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Spider-Woman 5 |
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Spider-Woman 5 |
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CGC |
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0792977022
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Owner Comments
"Nightmare"
Continued from last issue... Spider-Woman has been taken to "safety" by the Hangman, who ties her up in the dungeon of an old abandoned home he has taken up residence in. He tells her that he has brought her here to keep her safe from a society that craves violence and lawlessness, made popular in movies. When he then leaves Jessica alone, she easily frees herself and begins trying to find a way out of the Hangman's home.
Spider-Woman is startled when a mirror shows a reflection of a skeletal version of herself in her costume. This is the first of many hauntings which Spider-Woman experiences in this house. She is soon caught in a spider-web and is stalked by an evil spirit taking the form of Jerry Hunt that transforms into a spider. Meanwhile, at the boarding house that Jessica shares with Magnus, Magnus has a conversation with Priscilla Dolly about her late husband and what he did for a living.
Back at the haunted house, Jessica manages to escape from the Jerry Hunt apparition, only to be stalked by one taking on the form of Magnus. She fares no better against this one, which manages to knock her out. When she revives, she finds herself in a strange dungeon. Traveling through it, she is attacked by animated suits of armor. Fighting off these suits, she soon finds the room flooded with water, but manages to break free. Finding herself in another room of the house, she sees what appears to be Magnus tied up to a chair. Confirming that it is the real Magnus, Jessica tries to revive him. Suddenly she is visited by the aparation of Morgan le Fay, who has appeared to get revenge on them both.
This story is continued next issue...
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Spider-Woman 6 |
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Spider-Woman 6 |
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CGC |
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1001055006
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Owner Comments
"End of a Nightmare!!"
Morgan le Fay and her two demon-barbarians attack the helpless Magnus as he remains bound to a chair. Spider-Woman drives the demons away with several venom blasts, but is powerless to fight Morgan, as she currently exists on the astral plane. Morgan wants the Darkhold, but Spider-Woman has no idea where it is. However, in order to save Magnus' life, she agrees to search for it.
While Spider-Woman embarks upon her journey, Magnus surrepticiously sends a psychic command to S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jerry Hunt. Hunt suddenly feels the urge to leave his office and resume his search for Spider-Woman.
Spider-Woman meanwhile, learns that a young man named Jack Russell (also known as the Werewolf by Night) once possessed the Darkhold. She goes to his apartment at Colden House, just as the full moon begins to rise. Jack tries to warn her away, but it is too late. He transforms into the Werewolf and attacks Spider-Woman. He chokes her until she falls unconscious, then lumbers off into the night. Jessica quickly revives and follows the Werewolf onto the city streets. She manages to lay him low with a concentrated venom blast and brings him back to Morgan le Fay's keep.
As she arrives with the unconscious Werewolf, Jerry Hunt shows up as well. Magnus attempts to combat Morgan on the astral plane, but she defeats him by destroying his physical body. She then turns her power against Jerry.
Morgan then realizes that she will increase her own capabilities by assuming a corporeal form. She opens up a time window to 12th century Camelot where her physical body lies sleeping. She begins a process to transplant her 20th century astral self into her chronologically older body, but Spider-Woman sends a venom blast through the portal, destroying her sleeping form. The paradox creates a time vortex that violently pulls Morgan le Fay away from this dimension. With Morgan's presence eliminated, her castle disappears.
Suddenly, Magnus walks up to Jessica and Jerry. He reveals that he faked his own demise in order to keep Morgan distracted. However, doing so greatly diminished his magic powers. As Magnus continues to mutter to himself, Jessica and Jerry embrace one another.
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Spider-Woman 7 |
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Spider-Woman 7 |
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CGC |
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0967933001
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Owner Comments
"July 4, 1978"
After an outing at a zoo, Jerry Hunt informs Jessica Drew that they can use SHIELD's computers to try and figure out who killed her father. Consulting the devices (in spite of her friend Magnus's reservations about the idea) the computer comes up with the answer: Pyrotechnics. While at a Pyrotechnics meeting that night, Senator James Wyatt tells the other members of the board that Spider-Woman must be destroyed, unaware that the building is being staked out by both Spider-Woman and Jerry Hunt. When Wyatt leaves the building, Spider-Woman follows after him while Jerry infiltrates the Pyrotechnics building to try and learn what the company is up to.
Spider-Woman follows Wyatt's car to a nearby military base, where she overhears Wyatt talking to one of the commanding officers about an injection of some kind. She decides to leave the scene to follow up with Jerry, believing that she will get caught if she hangs around for too much longer. Meanwhile, Jerry, having successfully broken into the Pyrotechnics building, begins to snoop around. Taking on the guise of a security guard, Jerry manages to take pictures of Pyrotechnic's files and hear a bit more about the company's plans as well before departing back to home base.
Back at the boarding house where Jessica stays with Magnus, the trio compare notes. They deduce that shortly after Jonathan Drew abandoned Jessica and left her in the care of Herbert Wyndham, he would travel to London, then on to America where he would work for Pyrotechnics. When Magnus deduces that perhaps he was being held against his will and later murdered by the company when his usefulness ran out, Jessica pieces it together and abruptly leaves the two men behind.
She attacks Senator Wyatt at his home and demands answers, revealing that Jonathan Drew was her father. She learns that the chairmen of Pyrotechnics are planning some kind of attack on July 4th. When she confronts the board members at the Pyrotechnics' office, she's knocked out by Brother Grimm, who has arrived to collect money. When Jessica revives, she finds herself sealed in a armored truck. Wyatt gloats about how they had her father's perfect serum that would make their soldiers immune to radiation so that they can deploy a neutron device and seize control of the United States.
Before they can launch their scheme, Wyatt's compound is raided by a SHIELD unit led by Jerry Hunt. Fighting his way into the control room (where Jessica frees herself) Jerry guns down Wyatt before he can activate the device and kill both of them. As Wyatt dies, he tells Jerry and Jessica that he wanted power and wealth, he also admits to murdering Jonathan Drew. Before dying, he pushes the self-destruct button on the base, forcing Jerry and Spider-Woman to flee as quickly as possible.
Escaping, they return to the SHIELD outpost, where they inform Nick Fury of Senator's Wyatt's plot. Fury explains that they are rounding up the rest of Wyatt's men. When Fury asks Jessica how she feels now that she has learned who killed her father, she explains that she is happy because she also found a man she loves at the same time.
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Spider-Woman 8 |
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Spider-Woman 8 |
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CGC |
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0167645014
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Owner Comments
"The Man Who Could Not Die!"
While out with Jerry Hunt, Jessica Drew witnesses a man trying to kill himself by falling from a fatal height. Changing into Spider-Woman, she saves the man, who flees the scene, upset that she tried to stop him. Following after him as he rides off on his motorcycle, she is shocked to find that he survives its subsequent crash, even when the motorcycle bursts into flames. Jessica is soon captured by the man, who reveals himself to be Samuel Davis. Davis has been condemned to live forever thanks to showing cowardice during the War of Independence after his entire unit was killed. Since then he has been trying to die, and each time he has found the curse to be true.
Learning that the only way to be free of the curse was to find someone who was willing to die for him, he hopes to kill himself along with Spider-Woman. Spider-Woman resists until Samuel saves her from a bear attack. Breaking free, Spider-Woman easily defeats the bear, and then agrees to die with Davis. Jumping off a cliff over some pointed rocks while chained together, Spider-Woman breaks free and flies away, leaving Davis to be impaled alone. However, he is killed, having been willing to put the safety of others ahead of his own wellbeing, thus lifting the curse.
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Spider-Woman 9 |
| Item: |
Spider-Woman 9 |
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CGC |
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0242958001
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Owner Comments
"Eye of the Needle"
After a night out with Jerry Hunt, Jessica Drew refuses to let him drive her home, opting instead to glide home as Spider-Woman. Jerry, left alone in his thoughts, overhears a scream, and goes to the person's aid. There he comes face to face with a costumed being known as the Needle. Pulling a gun on the Needle, Jerry soon finds himself paralyzed when the Needle makes eye contact, and is helpless when the Needle stitches his mouth shut and then flees.
The next day, Jessica is informed by Priscilla Dolly that Jerry is in the hospital. When Jessica rushes there, she learns about what happened. In spite of Jerry's protests, she decides to go out and investigate as Spider-Woman. That night, she goes out on patrol looking for the Needle. However, she doesn't find any sign of him until it's too late, and only finds one of his latest victims.
The next day, Jerry is released from the hospital, and he gives Jessica flack for going out after the Needle alone. Both agree to tackle him together. That night, as the Needle prepares to make his next nightly appearance, he reflects how he was just a mild-mannered elderly tailor until he was beat senseless by thugs. In the hospital he developed an ability to stun with his one good eye and upon his release from the hospital, he took on the guise of the Needle to get revenge on the kind of people who made him a victim.
When he strikes again, Jerry and Spider-Woman are there to stop him. When Jerry is stunned, Spider-Woman steps in to stop the Needle. During the fight, she too is stunned by the Needle's gaze. However, Jessica manages to snap out of it before the Needle has a chance to stitch her mouth shut. She then easily defeats the Needle by knocking him out with a powerful venom blast. When the police arrives, Spider-Woman flees the scene. Later, back in her civilian guise, she watches with Jerry as the Needle is taken into police custody.
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Spider-Woman 10 |
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Spider-Woman 10 |
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CGC |
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0216001005
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Owner Comments
"Things that go Flit in the Night"
Out on a romantic evening by the beach with Jerry Hunt, Jessica Drew spots a strange woman with wings flying above them. This prompts her to change into Spider-Woman and try to go after the woman. However, the strange moth-like girl gets away. Returning to Jerry, Jerry is very upset that Jessica went chasing yet another "freak", and calls it a night and takes her home.
Returning to the boarding house she shares with her friend Magnus, Jessica asks their landlady Priscilla Dolly if she's seen her "uncle" around, Dolly tells her that Magnus got a job as a stage magician. Going up to her room, Jessica finds a new dress purchased for her by Magnus and an invite to an exclusive party that Magnus has been invited to.
Going to the party, Jessica finds that Magnus has made himself quite popular very quickly, but finds herself more or less ignored by the party-goers. When Jessica sees the moth-woman again, she is shocked to see that she has some sort of powers that allow her to control thread, as she uses it to turn some of the female party-goers' dresses into cocoons. Not wishing to let this girl get away, Jessica has Magnus turn her party dress into her Spider-Woman costume and chases after her.
Engaging the super-powered woman, who reveals herself to be Gypsy Moth, Jessica is attacked by her strange powers. She finds that this woman is not friendly in the least, and is not interested in doing more than fighting. Gypsy Moth uses her powers to make thread from other people's clothing to wrap Spider-Woman up in a thread cocoon and dump her in the pool. However, Jessica breaks free and battles the Gypsy Moth again. Jerry arrives and fires a shot at the Gypsy Moth, hitting one of her wings. Realizing that the wings are part of the Moth's body, Jessica stuns Jerry with a venom blast and takes Gypsy Moth out of there. She decides that to let the Gypsy Moth go, since she didn't really do anything wrong, and isn't interested in making friends, and so Spider-Woman slinks away before the Moth can revive.
Later, Jessica is reunited with Jerry, and the two have another argument about what exactly it was that Jessica was doing.
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Spider-Woman 11 |
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Spider-Woman 11 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0966829007
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Owner Comments
"And Dolly Makes Three"
While waiting for her boyfriend Jerry Hunt to show up for another date with her, Jessica Drew decides to admire her landlady Priscilla Dolly's doll collection, and finds a small compartment that contains two dolls in the shape of Brother Grimm. She quickly hides them again when Priscilla enters the room, Jerry shows up shortly after, and the couple leaves. Priscilla wonders if Jerry is the man she's been waiting for, and also deduces that Jessica found her secret compartment.
While at dinner, Jerry and Jessica are attacked by Brother Grimm. Terrorizing the dinner guests, Jessica changes into Spider-Woman and tries to stop him. Brother Grimm then escapes on a cloud-and-swing device, with Jessica following behind. Furious that Jessica still doesn't utilize teamwork, Jerry follows after them in his car. He loses them, and stops his car, where Brother Grimm somehow gets the drop on him and knocks him out.
Meanwhile, Jessica tracks down the Brother Grimm on the cloud device and zaps him with a venom blast. This causes his costume to crumple up as though there was nobody inside. She is then attacked from behind by Brother Grimm, and is knocked out. Elsewhere, Magnus returns to the boarding house and retires for the night. In his sleep he is attacked and subdued by Dolly's doll collection, which has sprung to life.
Finally, Jessica revives and finds herself and Jerry chained up in a theater. Standing before them is Priscilla Dolly and two Brothers Grimm. Priscilla announces herself as Madam Doll, and tells them that they are going to witness a show they will not soon forget.
This story is continued next issue....
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Spider-Woman 12 |
| Item: |
Spider-Woman 12 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1029999013
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Owner Comments
"The Last Tale Of the Brothers Grimm!"
Continued from last issue... Magnus is awoken by the mystically animated bodies of Priscilla Dolly's doll collection, and traces the mystical aura to a playhouse where Dolly and the Brothers Grimm have Spider-Woman and Jerry Hunt hostage. Dolly explains to Magnus that her husband Nathan Dolly was a doll collector who became the costumed villain Mr. Doll before being defeated by Iron Man. He then went on searching for dolls with similar powers. He came across the Brothers Grimm dolls, which he was told he could put his life force into. Upon doing so, Dolly soon found his body trapped within his dolls, and since then his wife Priscilla has been trying to find a way to give Nathan a new body.
She and the Brothers Grimm (revealed as her sons William and Jacob) demand that Magnus casts a spell to transport Nathan's soul into Jerry's body, threatening to kill Spider-Woman if he refuses. Magnus agrees, and Jessica and Jerry are knocked out with gas. After a strange dream about Jerry and herself resembling the story Little Red Riding Hood, Jessica awakens to find that a magical ceremony is underway to transport the soul of Nathan Dolly into the body of Jerry Hunt.
The Dolly brothers in one pentagram (with a Brother Grimm doll each) in one pentagram and Jerry in another, Jessica watches as Magnus casts his spell. Breaking free and subduing Madam Doll, Spider-Woman swings in and pulls Jerry free as Nathan's soul is pulled out of the dolls. Traveling to the now empty pentagram, Nathan is mortified that there is no host body waiting for him, and is cast off into oblivion. With Jerry and Magnus safe, the trio depart, leaving Mrs. Dolly behind with her boys, who turned out to be dolls themselves controlled by Dolly's influence. The maddened Dolly talks to her boys, asking them to please, please wake up.
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Spider-Woman 13 |
| Item: |
Spider-Woman 13 |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0966829008
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Owner Comments
"Suddenly...the Shroud!"
Leaving for Las Vegas, Magnus bids farewell to his friends Jessica Drew and Jerry Hunt. After Magnus's departure, Jerry informs Jessica that SHIELD wants him back on assignment and drops Jessica off at home. Jessica begins to ponder over what she should do for employment. After a night out as Spider-Woman, Jessica begins job hunting and finds that people's negative reactions towards her make the jobs she applies for not last. Wondering what's wrong, she decides to go to the Hatros Institute for Emotional Research to try and figure out why. As a stroke of luck, after her first session she is offered a job as a receptionist at the institute.
As Jerry Hunt receives mission orders to find two missing SHIELD agents, Jessica begins her job as a receptionist. Hearing a strange noise, she goes to investigate and is knocked out by the Shroud, who is investigating the Hatros Institute because he suspects they are tied with the Cult of Kali.
Reviving, Jessica changes into Spider-Woman and counter-attacks the Shroud, and after a brief battle she easily defeats him, knocking him out with a venom blast. Carrying his unconscious body through a therapy room, she is shocked to find it filled with members of the very cult that the Shroud had come looking for.
This story is continued next issue...
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Spider-Woman 14 |
| Item: |
Spider-Woman 14 |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0968091006
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Owner Comments
"Cults and Robbers"
Continued from last issue... Surrounded by followers of the Cult of Kali, Spider-Woman is forced to drop the Shroud's unconscious body to defend herself. During the fight she fights off the Cult members, but suddenly the room goes black momentarily, and the Shroud disappears. Changing back to Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman calls the police, but finds that the cult members are missing after she goes back in to check on them. While Jessica is interrogated for three hours, Jerry Hunt and his fellow SHIELD agents go looking for their missing members, to no avail.
The next day, Jessica takes part in another group session at the Hatros institute, unaware that its owner Adrienne Hatros is taking a secret interest in her. After the session, Jessica decides to look into the strange emblem that the members of the Cult and the Shroud had in common, and learn that it's a depiction of the Indian god Kali, the Goddess of death and destruction. Going on to research more, she tries to see the Jade Idol of Kali, but learns that it has been stolen.
Figuring it's a lead in her case, Jessica goes to a seedy bar down by the waterfront. There, as Spider-Woman, she pressures some thugs into revealing who stole the idol. Following the thieves to their boat. Spider-Woman fights them all and easily defeats each one. When she questions the leader, he tells her that they stole the idol to try and sell it, however the item was too hot to sell to their usual fence. Spider-Woman realizes that these common crooks have nothing to do with the cult and returns home.
After a shower, and pondering what her next move is, she's suddenly visited by the Shroud who has appeared in her home.
This story is continued next issue...
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Spider-Woman 15 |
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Spider-Woman 15 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0216001008
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Owner Comments
"Into the Heart of Darkness!"
Continued from last issue... Stepping out of the shower, Jessica Drew( finds the Shroud in her apartment. Introducing himself, he explains his origins to her, and his ties to the Cult of Kali. He asks for Jessica's help into breaking into a SHIELD facility to help him find information on the Cult of Kali, expressing that he needs her help because, due to his blindness, he cannot read.
As Spider-Woman and the Shroud break into the SHIELD outpost that she knows of, Jerry Hunt and his SHIELD colleague visit the Hatros Institute. This does not escape the notice of Adrienne Hatros, who calls her fellow cult members, suggesting that their next sacrifice be the two snooping SHIELD agents. As Jerry and his colleague are captured, Spider-Woman and Shroud (with the information they gathered from SHIELD's files) track down the Cult to an old tomb where they find Jerry and his colleague about to be sacrificed by the cult.
After a battle against the Cultists, the Shroud and Spider-Woman make short work of them and free Jerry and the other captive. After the battle, the Shroud bids farewell to Spider-Woman and departs. While back at the Hatros Institute, Adrienne Hatros is revealed to be Nekra, who has deduced Spider-Woman's true identity and vows to get revenge against her for ruining her plans.
This story is continued next issue...
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