PETER PARKER THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #41 (1980)

spider-man cheats on a test

Peter Parker’s great sense of responsibility does not extend to cheating on college exams.

Meanwhile, the Looter steals some stuff, and now he goes by Meteor Man and can get really big.  Which is convenient since this issue guest-stars Bill Foster, the new Giant Man.

The best part is when they first meet, and Spidey calls him “black Giant-Man.”  This, after Thing recently advised Foster to drop the name “Black Goliath.”  Black superheroes were almost always named after their races—Black Lightning, Black Panther, Black Eagle, Blackwing, Black Vulcan, Black Talon, etc.  But not a single white superhero was called “White Something.”

Looter meets a gruesome end: He gets a hold of a radioactive meteor that allows him to grow in size, just like black Giant Man, but he can’t stop growing and ultimately he pops like a balloon.  Dead.

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