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Neat John Byrne linked covers, eh?
Beyonder turns an office building into gold to pay for a new suit of clothes, but in so doing the structure collapses and people are trapped. Spidey crawls through the wreckage to save them.
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Then the US Government asks Kingpin to protect all that gold while they figure out what to do with it. So of course Kingpin tries to steal it.
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Very odd plot device. it makes no sense at all that in a world with two Avengers teams, the Defenders, and dozens of costumed do-gooders, the government would ask the kingpin to protect the gold.
But he’s not the only one who wants to take some for himself…
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And that’s the Secret Wars II morality play for Spider-Man.
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Honestly, I get that there’s something wrong with taking the notebook but…How wrong is it, really?
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And MJ tries to deal with her boyfriend being Spider-Man.
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