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Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6 3

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He's slept enough. Wake him up.

—Tombstone (Lonnie Lincoln)

Appearing in 1st story

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  • Three Train (Behind the scenes)
  • F-Train (Mentioned)

Synopsis for 1st story

In Alphabet City, Paul talks with Mary Jane as he walks over to Peter's apartment to discuss his late night calls. When asking her if he seems like a violent guy, Paul retorts to her on-call example that Peter deserved a swing that time[1] while reiterating his goal to just talk with Peter. Arriving at his destination, he concludes his call with Mary Jane and is met by the debt collector hounding Peter. When they explain their respective motives, Paul grows sympathetic learning of Peter's months-long hospitalization[2] and asks how much Peter owes despite the debt collector's insistence Paul not want to know. While he does ask, Paul wants to know how much to get the guy off Peter's back for a couple week and pays $1,500 via veemo. Perplexed, the debt collector asks why Paul paid, and Paul answers that he doesn't like to see someone get kicked while they're down. Hopes Peter is okay, the debt collector doesn't care and ponders to Paul that Peter is sleeping cozy in his bed.

In Harlem underground, Spider-Man is chained wrists to ankles as Tombstone wakes up the brutalized web-head. Uncaring to his identity under the mask, Tombstone forewarns him that he'll brutalize him some more to make them "even" and continues thusly. As Spider-Man struggles, Tombstone tells him the chains won't break while letting him know they're in an abandon subway deep under a safe house of his. Demanding an answer, Tombstone tells Spider-Man that the situation is him teaching the wall-crawler a lesson. Firstly, he asks Spider-Man's reasoning for stopping his sale to The Rose and gets a basic answer about being a "good guy". Lifting him up, Tombstone directs one of his men, Donnie, to take the box of roses upstairs before continuing his talk onto the subject of Lions. In Upstate New York at the Taconic Diner, Randy and Janice are having lunch while on vacation as Randy still cannot get a call to his dad. Per her advice, he puts his phone down to resume talking, and she easily deduces he wants to marry her. While he had this whole plan on how to propose, they both agree to marriage after an awkward silence. Happy at her accepting, Randy tries again to call his father, but again receives no response.

Back in Harlem, Tombstone goes on his speech about lions, that they avoid people for the most part until provoked. But every so often there's a man-eater with hundreds of fatalities, and people smarter than Tombstone study the reasoning. As he talks, he adorns his men with roses, and gets to his main point that scientists never once said "bad lion" as a reason for such behavior. As a train rumbles overhead, Tombstone disciplines a subordinate who misidentifies the Three Train for the F-Train. Returning to his point, an animal asks out and people assume abuse, while a human commits a crime and people ask about incarceration thinking "he's a bad guy". Irritated at Spider-Man's disinterest, he reiterates that he already decided what he was never asking why he was. So he asks Tombstone "why he is" and the crime lord is pleased to be asked.

Across town,A Robbie asks the chafeur is there's any service and is told the area they're in has bad reception. Perplexed and asking why, the driver pulls over to pick up another passenger. As the door opens, White Rabbit greets a confused Robbie asking he move aside to make room for her. She tells him her boss wants to see him and they are already late as it is. Tombstone makes mention of his filed teeth and how people thought it was a strange choice, when really it wasn't. Narrating his past, young Lonnie Lincoln was always hungry and stopped asking for help as nobody answered or offered. Bullied and robbed, little Lonnie was left to starve at school and at also home. Getting older, he learned to be violent and filed his teeth, confronting his bullies to bite off one of their ears, and they never bothering him again. He retained his whisper voice to force anyone asking to do business to risk feeling his teeth. As he grew up, he ate better and did whatever he could to survive no matter what the "good guys" did to impede him.

As Donnie informs Tombstone the men are ready, Spider-Man is surprised to see what seems like the Rose's men, but are truly Tombstone's men in disguise. As they all go up to the surface, Tombstone explains that his men will feign allegiance to The Rose and shoot up 125th Street in broad daylight, forcing any of Spider-Man's superhero friends to resolve the issue, thus removing Rose from the board and resolving the gang war. Despite Spider-Man's pleas that civilians have no business in their fight, he is reminded that Spider-Man had no business in their disputes yet here he is. As his men reach topside, Tombstone tells Spider-Man that he ordered some guys to abduct Robbie for the fact that Randy moved to marry Janice. Screaming that he learned his lesson, Tombstone leaves regardless ordering his men to kill Spider-Man, leaving Spider-Man powerless.

Solicit Synopsis

• I know that this is just #3, but did you notice that it's LGY #897? That means something big is RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

• There are things you don't know about Tombstone.

• Neither you, nor Spider-Man, will ever forget them.

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References

  1. ↑ Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 6) #7
  2. ↑ Beyond (Spider-Man Storyline)
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