Created on July 4, 2012 and written by TaliAdina
Category: Comicmaniacs

In honor of The Amazing Spider-Man Film arriving in theaters and the many fans who will sit down and watch it this Fourth of July weekend, the Classic Comic Review presents:

Spider-Man, Storm and Power Man…Battle Smokescreen! 1982

Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

No one knows who the creative team was. There’s no listing for a writer, penciller, inker, etc. So it’s all a mystery.

The story is basically a PSA (Public Service Announcement) alerting comic book readers about the dangers of smoking. It features Power Man aka Luke Cage whose coaching a track team in the inner city. The star of the team Bret keeps performing worse and worse and it’s revealed that he’s been smoking. Power Man follows the teen to a club where he discovers this as well as our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The two heroes enlist the help of the X-man Storm.

Readers find out about the bad guys plan when they’re introduced to the villains’ leader Smokescreen. He plans to influence the results of the high school track meet in order to control the local betting scene. Smokescreen intends to that by getting Bret hooked on cigarettes until he’s physically out of shape. Of course our heroes help out and stop Smokescreen’s plan.

For its time, it was a good PSA. The art is nice and the story though a little cheesy, is a good one.

It was nice to read and it was awesome to see Spider-Man, Power Man, and Storm.

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About the Writer: TaliAdina (75 Posts) Tali Adina is the creator of the blog Comicmaniacs. Tali also posts her thoughts and comic scripts on her blog The Diary of a Novice Comic Book Writer. She's also a contributor on WhyNotIndie.com. Her first comic book script "Defect Light to Combat the Darkness" was accepted to the women-created comic book anthology Womanthology, created by Renae De Liz. She was paired with artist Kelly Turnbull. She also wrote a one page story for the Womanthology Holiday PDF & Valentine's Day special with artist Brenda Kirk entitled "Don't Let the Light Go Out" and "June".

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