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X-Man and Peter Parker just met, but here they are, teaming up again. While walking the streets of New York, X-Man is attacked by Morbius. He goes to Spider-Man for help tracking down Morbius, because Morbius’ attack has somehow made X-Man vampiric. Here’s the “scientific” explanation…
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Meanwhile, Threnody is approached by Morbius, who notes that he is a blood vampire and Threnody is an energy vampire.
Spider-Man and X-Man arrive and scare Morbius off, but in the process X-Man reads Threnody’s past in her psyche, and becomes fully aware of the things she has done working for Mister Sinister. X-Man leaves her…
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After he’s gone, the resurrected Madelyn Pryor shows up asking Threnody about X-Man.
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These are some major developments in the X-Man book, but the story continues in Spider-Man #77, where the two title heroes continue to track Morbius. Actually, it’s mostly just Spider-Man (actually Mary Jane), who stops Morbius from eating a mutant-hating Friend of Humanity.
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She even knocks some sense into him–getting him not to chase down Morbius so he can save an innocent.
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And in the end, Jolly Jonah publishes more fake news…
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Issue #78 is told with Mary Jane as narrator, which hasn’t been done before. It switches the point of view and makes for an interesting narrative device.
Issues #79 and #80 clean up the Morbius stuff.
He ends up being sold out by the doctor at the end of issue #78, and taken by Hydra–who want to use his blood for experiments. Spider-Man helps Morbius break free–but only because Hammerhead gets involved. Turns out, he thinks Hydra are a threat to organized crime in New York City.
Yeah, it’s pretty dumb.