Spider-Man Comics Weekly Vol 1 130

Returning home from England, Peter Parker goes to the Daily Bugle and sells his pictures to Joe Robertson, whose responses to Peter's pictures of Spider-Man in action make Peter wonder if maybe Joe knows of Peter's secret identity.

Returning to his classes, Harry asks Peter to join him out to see Mary Jane's performance on an off-Broadway show. Peter reluctantly agrees when Harry offers to pay Peter's way in. While web-slinging as Spider-Man, Peter thinks about Harry's father Norman and their past as foes, when Norman was the Green Goblin. He decides to take Norman up on his offer for a job, deciding it's about time he got a real job. He meets with Norman who takes Peter's request into consideration and tells Peter that he will be attending the show as well.

Web-slinging across town, Spider-Man stops on his way to MJ's show when he spots someone strung out on drugs and saves him from falling off a building. He turns him over to paramedics where the druggie is resuscitated. Spidey quickly leaves and changes into Peter Parker to join the others. When Randy Robertson finally joins them, he gets into a brief argument with Norman Osborn about the reality of drug abuse in the city.

Peter ends up getting the ire of Harry when Mary Jane ends up paying more attention to Peter. During the show, Peter's spider-sense warns him of danger, slowly becoming aware that Norman Osborn is acting very strange. When Harry abruptly leaves with Mary Jane in a jealous fit, Peter decides to follow after Norman Osborn as Spider-Man. Following Osborn into one of the Green Goblin's old safe houses, Peter is shocked to find that Norman's Green Goblin memories have returned and that he's waiting for Spider-Man in full costume.

Continued from last issue... Iron Man has been defeated by the Vietnamese scientist Half-Face and the newly revived Titanium Man, and now the two villains plan to destroy a small village that has been sympathetic to the US Army that operate in the area in order to win a propaganda victory for their masters.

Iron Man manages to revive himself and fight his way through Half-Face's men, while Half-Face himself and Titanium Man reach their destination. Half-Face then instructs Titanium Man to start wreaking havoc on the town. While in the United States, the mysterious visitor trying to get inside Stark Industries, knocks out the guard and scales over the wall, having become too impatient for Stark's return.

Back in Vietnam, Iron Man has arrive in the town is attempting to stop the Titanium Man from destroying the village, but is making minimal progress. Meanwhile, Half-Face while wandering the village, finds that his wife and child now live there. In the meantime, Iron Man manages to knock the Titanium Man into a dried out river bed and believes his foe to be defeated. While talking to the villages, Iron Man is unaware that the Titanium Man has revived and is about to attack him until his opponent's armor explodes and he is knocked out again.

Iron Man soon learns the cause was Half-Face, who has decided to change his ways now that he has rediscovered his wife and child.

Thor and the Recorder have been left drifting in space when their space ship is destroyed after being struck by the backlash of a battle between Ego the Living Planet and Galactus. The two are rescued from space by the Wanderers, a group of aliens who are the lone survivors of a world consumed by Galactus who have followed the Thunder God to seek out the world devourers destruction.

Deep in the Black Galaxy, Ego and Galactus' battle rages on, the two appear evenly matched however in spite of their overwhelming cosmic powers. While aboard the Wanderer's ship, Thor and the Recorder revive and learn of their saviors mission. Both the Recorder and Thor are against the idea of the Wanderers attacking Galactus directly, as they will surely meet their end, as such Thor offers to fight Galactus on their behalf. Suddenly, their ship flies into a debris field created in the wake of the battle between Ego and Galactus.

Their ship arrives just as Galactus has managed to turn the tide of battle against Ego, prompting Thor to immediately jump into action, in spite of the Recorders fear of Thor's destruction. Thor toss his hammer at Galactus, and upon impact causes the world eater to pause because it has actually caused him pain. Thor then goes in for a full frontal attack, however Galactus has erected a force field around himself making Thor's blows ineffectual. Galactus then grabs the Thunder God and tosses him at Ego's surface where he finds that the Living Planet had brought the Wanderers and the Recorder to it's surface as well.

Working together, the group constructs a stand that houses Thor's hammer and Thor uses it to fire a beam at Galactus. The force of the beam causes Galactus great pain and threatens to destroy him. Not wanting to be destroyed, Galactus decides it's best that he depart and flees the Black Galaxy in defeat.

The Wanderers rejoice at Thor's victory over Galactus, and then much to their surprise Ego invites them to live on his surface, adjusting his form so that the Wanderers can live on grounds that are fertile and allow them to sustain a way of life. Ego appears in a humanoid simulacrum to tell them that they are welcome to live on his surface for the rest of their lives.