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Here we go again: A single comic with two 15-page stories in it, which means that I have to split coverage between two posts. This one deals with the Black Widow half of the first issue.
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The story, despite having art by John Buscema, is pretty bad.
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Her new outfit is cool though.
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It starts off with her lounging in a slinky outfit and feeling “bored,” and receiving a phone call from a man who wants to fly her to Switzerland on what she assumes will be a date.
For a spy who recently defected from Russia, she certainly has embraced the capitalist lifestyle.
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We meet future Black Widow “wrangler” Ivan Petrovitch, briefly, and that’s kind of important.
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He will turn into Black Widow’s version of Microchip–part “handler,” part researcher, someone who can equip her with weapons, etc.
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She stops some criminals.
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With little effort.
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She is trying to keep her identity secret.
And that’s the set-up for this comic.
What’s wrong with this story??? Not every Marvel Comic has to be “The Galactus Trilogy”, or “The Kree-Skrull War”, or “The Phoenix Saga”, or “The Avengers-Defenders War”. The Black Widow’s 1970 “Amazing Adventures” adventures were just fine little street-level capers where we are shown what the Widow can do. I don’t expect Natasha to step up every time Galactus or the Skrulls try to invade the Earth, ( contrary to what we were given in the 2012 ‘Avengers’ movie ) but she wasn’t built to fight off alien invasions or giant, planet-eating space gods. She is at her most effective battling street-level criminals, the same way Spider-Man and her former paramour Daredevil do. As for the debate over her Sixties ensemble versus her Seventies outfit, well, I frankly don’t think she could go wrong either way, but personally, the lavender outfit with the cape and black fishnets really works for me!! I wonder where you could go to buy an outfit like that-?? ( for my girl, of course ) And seriously, if Natasha is worried about the world learning who she really is, then wouldn’t it stand to simple logic to simply remain in the outfit with the face-mask-??? ( in comic-book world, those face-masks really work! ) And in closing, what’s all this about “Is there really a place for ( me ) in a world such as this-???” Well, why in the hell WOULDN’T there be-??? You’re only one of the highest-trained and highest capable operatives on the planet!!! She, of course, KNOWS this- she KNOWS that when push comes to shove, there will ALWAYS be employment for her at both SHIELD and the Avengers! So- what’s with all the melodrama-?? Pity poor me- the Deadly Black Widow, one of the deadliest intelligence operatives on the planet- oh, whatsoever am I going to do with myself-??? Oh, boo-hoo-hoo!! Right, ‘Tash. Anyway, a “C-” rating is a bit harsh for this series- I would give it an overall “B”! Nuff Said!!