THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #120

"The Fight And The Fury!"

• Writer: Gerry Conway
• Artist: Gil Kane
• Inker: John Romita
• Print Date: May, 1973

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Plot Summary:

Who's the Giant with the green skin? It's the ever-lovin' Hulk! Why is he attacking our friendly neighborhood web-spinner? Read on to find out! What are they doing up in Canada, anyway? Ditto last answer!

Well, I suppose we can answer the last question. To recap, Spider-Man went to Canada to check out a lawyer that is trying to get ahold of Aunt May. To get there, he promised Jonah picture of the Hulk if the Daily Bugle would expense his trip. Once there, he got in over his head (quite literally) while battling the Hulk when the Hulk pulled down a dam on the two of them dragging them both underwater with the rubble.

Luckily, Spidey doesn't have to stay under long. The Hulk, from the bottom of the river, begins lobbing large chucks of stone out of the river in no particular direction. Spider-Man hitches a ride on a boulder and catches his breath on the face of the dam. The Hulk's furious activities launches a massive wave into the military convoy headed by Brigadier General Ross. As the wave throws the military into disarray, the Hulk takes off for more peaceful pastures. General Ross orders the troops to fan out and cover the area to find the Hulk while he flies back to Montreal. Spider-Man, deciding he's done his bit for society, sneaks a ride back to Montreal with him.

Back in Montreal, Peter heads back to the law offices of Jean-Pierre Rimbaud. He stops at a pay phone to call home and see how Harry's doing. Gwen insists that Peter must return as soon as possible. Harry's been into drugs again, and she feels that Peter needs to return home as soon as possible. After he gets off the phone, the guilt sets in as Peter wonders if he had been a better friend, would Harry be having these problems now. His internal monologue is interrupt by his Spider-Sense as he detects someone following him through the streets of Montreal.

Ducking down an alley, and a quick costume change later, Spider-Man drags the thugs up a four story building and hangs him over the edge. When the thug refuses to answer his question, our hero drops him four-stories, rescuing him with some webbing just before he hits the ground. After that, the thugs is more than happen to admit that he was hired by Doctor Octopus to tail Parker around Montreal.

Unfortunately, the interrogation is interrupted by General Ross and the Canadian military. General Ross puts Spider-Man in a spotlight and demands to know where the Hulk is. Spider-Man launches a couple of balls of webbing to put the searchlights out of commission and swings off with a hail of gunfire following close behind. As the sound of gunfire fades in the distance, he finds a secluded rooftop for a quick and hopefully final change of clothes. Then, Peter Parker resumes his journey in a somewhat more sedate style.

He arrives to talk to Miss Delon, Mssr. Rimbaud's secretary. Unfortunately, the only thing in Aunt May's files was a note that Mssr. Rimbaud needed to talk to her about something important, and he was intending on handling it personally. However, Rimbaud is out at the Expo 67 fairgrounds and Miss Delon offers to take Peter out there to speak to him. They don't make the ride alone as Peter's tail picks them up again and follows them out to the fairground. Though they don't notice the tail, they both notice a single lone, green-hued figure standing the road up ahead. What are the odds that their taxi would run into the Hulk? Disturbed by the blinding headlights, the Hulk tears up the road and sends the cab flying. Since there's nothing else to be done, Peter changes into his costume and sets out to stop the Hulk.

e tags the Hulk with some webbing, and convinces the Hulk to pursue him through the fair grounds. Spider-Man leaps from perch to perch a the Hulk demolishes everything that gets in his way. Eventually, our hero falls a step short, and the Hulk hurtles him into a stack of concrete columns. Stunned and immobile, Spider-Man watches the Hulk charged towards him. Fortunately, for him, the military has tracked down the Hulk thanks to the seismic disturbances caused by his rampage, and a hail of gunfire from overhead helicopters turns the Hulk from Spider-Man and forces him to flee yet again.

And so, Peter crawls down from the rubble, pretending to have been hiding during the Hulk's rampage. Finally, Mssr. Rimbaud can talk about his urgent message to Aunt May. Or, at least, he could've talked except that Doctor Octopus' thug fires a single shot from the shadows killing the lawyer instantly. Talk about a depressing and brutal end to the story. Despite being on-hand to witness a murder, Peter Parker still catches his flight home at midnight. So long, Montreal. You won't be hearing from him for a while. It's time Peter returns to New York.