Amazing Spider-Man #230
This issue was a continuation from Amazing Spider-Man #229 and is fully
devoted to a confrontation between The Juggernaut and
Spider-Man. I loved this confrontation but I couldn't put it
under the Greatest Battles section for a couple reasons.
One,due to gaping power differences this
could in no way be a direct,toe-to-toe type matchup. And
two,while Spider-Man was fighting The Juggernaut,it wasn't
until the very end until The Juggernaut actually started
fighting Spider-Man.
After having waded through all of Spider-Man's
efforts to stop him from getting to Madame Web
and nearly killing her in the previous issue,The Juggernaut became the target
of Spider-Man's vengeance and Spider-Man went after him.
It didn't take long to find The Juggernaut as he was
stomping across town leaving his usual path of destruction.
Spider-Man searched for ways to stop him. Earlier
webbing didn't work,nor did a million volts of
electricity. So he figured he'd try something more bludgeoning.
As The Juggernaut moved along past a construction site
Spider-Man picked up a steel girder and used webbing
to slingshot it at his head. The Juggernaut simply catches
the girder and twists it up.
The Juggernaut decides he doesn't
like surprise attacks and stalks off in the direction
the girder came from. Spider-Man stood clinging high
on the side of a building when his spider-sense starts
blaring. He can't figure out why it was going off being
as he was completely out of striking range from his
opponent. But that mystery soon dissolved as The Juggernaut
ripped off the entire corner of the building. With Spider-Man
on it. Spider-Man quickly leaps off to safety onto
a crane. He then gets another idea and snaps the
wrecking ball from the crane and hurls it at The Juggernaut.
A simple backhand from The Juggernaut sends the wrecking
ball into the building with such force the whole building
comes down around both of them when the ball crashes
into it. Spider-Man barely managed to dive into
a sewer pipe before being crushed by the tumbling
wreckage. After 20 minutes he emerges from the rubble
to find The Juggernaut hadn't missed a step from the
building collapsing on him and was long gone.
Spider-Man again tracks down The
Juggernaut headed towards the docks. He figures The
Juggernaut is aiming to leave town via boat so he
figures this is his last chance to stop him. After a
brief encounter with the hostile driver of a gasoline
truck,Spider-Man gets yet another idea. He gets inside
the tanker and starts to drive along The Juggernaut's
trail. Once The Juggernaut is in sight Spider-Man
floors it and heads straight toward him. The Juggernaut
stares him down. Spider-Man thinks The Juggernaut is
crazy to think he can survive a head on collision
with a fueld up tanker coming at him at full speed. Spider-Man
jumps out and the gasoline truck slams into The Juggernaut.
He doesn't even budge from the impact and the tanker,along
with all the gasoline goes up in a terrible explosion.
As Spider-Man watches the blaze from a safe distance his
conscience talks to him. What had he done? He just
killed a man. He knew no one could've survived that.
Not even The Juggernaut...
Luckily,Spider-Man would be able
to sleep that night. Though his slumber would probably
be filled with nightmaric visions
of The Juggernaut emerging from the frightful inferno.
His armor awash with flame and he totally unharmed.
The Juggernaut stalks toward Spider-Man,incidently
kicking over a fire hydrant along the way which put out
the flames. He hammers a fist down at Spider-Man who
uses his superhuman agility to dodge and leap onto
The Juggernaut's back. The Juggernaut prepares to again clean Spider-Man off of him by walking him into a wll but in a desparate attempt to stop him Spider-Man covers
up the eye holes on his helmet. As The Juggernaut
reached back and began to awkwardly pound Spider-Man
senseless,he felt himself sinking. To his and Spider-Man's surprise The Juggernaut had just happened to blindly walk
into a foundation of wet cement. Spider-Man leaps off of Juggernaut to safety and Like a man in quicksand
The Juggernaut sank far far down to the bottom. When you're a hero,sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
Favorite Issue Quote:~It's like staring into
a blast furnace. Lord,what have I done? Juggernaut
must have been incinerated instantly. Not even his
forcefield could possibly have withstood...that...blast?~-Spider-Man,as
he finally understands The Juggernaut's billing as "Unstoppable".
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