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Marvel Team-Up #33

on-sale: Feb 25, 1975
Gerry Conway | Sal Buscema

Marvel Team-Up #33 cover

Story Name:

Anybody Here Know a Guy Named Meteor Man?


Synopsis

Marvel Team-Up #33 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 3.5 stars

Nighthawk returns home late one night, brooding about his close escape from death. Entering, he discovers someone in his study. A flash of memory strikes him and the villain knocks him across the room with a punch, picks up a meteorite and departs via balloon. Kyle checks out the news files and confirms that his robber was the Looter. His interest in the case at the time led him to purchase the meteor sample. Knowing that Spider-Man once fought him, Nighthawk flies out, seeking the Web-Slinger for information….

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is in a nasty mood because of the return of Gwen Stacy, whom he deduces is an impostor. His mood is so bitter that he mistakes Nighthawk’s approach for an attack and clobbers him, sending him plunging unconscious toward the ground. Spidey swoops down and rescues him then they have an awkward conversation. Eventually, Nighthawk explains about the Looter and Spidey agrees they need to catch him together. Nighthawk offers to go to the prison while Spidey decides to check out the bad guy’s old lab….

So Nighthawk goes to the prison where he meets with Warden Ivan Carmichael. The warden tells him that Norton “the Looter” Fester was a model prisoner until they put him in with a convict named Bill Gordon, hoping some of Fester’s “niceness” would rub off. Instead, Gordon bullied and harassed Fester until the guy exploded and he broke a metal bunk with his bare hands. Realizing he still had all of his powers, he punched his way through the wall and took off. Nighthawk asks why Fester didn’t get psychiatric help; the Warden hems and haws and an angry Nighthawk flies off through the window….

Spidey checks out Fester’s old lab and discovers it is now the headquarters of a religious group called the Innocents of God.” Then the bad guy drops on Spidey and begins punching him in the head, announcing he is no longer the Looter but the Meteor Man, which he claims has more style. Spidey, stunned, is falling to the street below but he manages to focus in time to shoot a web out to save himself. He ricochets back and hits Meteor Man in the back, which only pushes the balloon-borne baddie out of his range. Spidey falls again but this time Nighthawk is there to catch him. They have an argument: Spidey wans to pursue and capture the dangerous criminal while Nighthawk considers the man sick and more in need of a psychiatrist than prison. Spidey calls him a coward so Nighthawk punches him, accusing him of wanting to take out his personal problems on the bad guy. Nighthawk leaves, Spidey ponders the accusation. As he swings off, Jeremiah the Prophet and leader of the Innocents of God informs his flock that Spider-Man is a symbol of modern-day evil who must be captured and subjected to their rite of purification….



Characters
Good (or All)
NIGHTHAWK
SPIDERMAN

Enemies
Meteor Man (Norton Fester).

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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Sal Buscema
Vince Colletta
Janice Cohen
Gil Kane (Cover Penciler)
Frank Giacoia (Cover Inker)
Unknown (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: John Costanza.



Review / Commentaries


Marvel Team-Up #33 Review by (March 4, 2025)

Review: An obscure old bad guy returns with a new name and presumably cooler powers but there’s only so cool you can be if your main source of transportation is a hot air balloon. But Meteor Man isn’t really important to the story; he’s just the excuse for Spidey and guest star Nighthawk to fight with each other. Both guys come off as angry and we know why Spidey is so wound up—and the reason Nighthawk is equally on edge is Spidey’s having punched him a few pages earlier. And they resolve nothing; Spidey gains some perspective by the end of the next issue when Nighthawk is long gone. The oddest bit is that apparently Gerry Conway has some strong opinions on prison reform and decided to share them with us.

Comments: Part one of three parts. Story takes place during the events of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #145, featuring the return of Gwen Stacy (actually her clone). Meteor Man’s first appearance was in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #36, there called the Looter; this three-part tale marks his second appearance after a nine year absence. First appearance of Jeremiah and the Innocents of God, confined to this three-issue story. Nighthawk mentions nearly having been killed by a car bomb; it happened in GIANT-SIZE DEFENDERS #4. Nice cameo by a vintage microfilm reader. Letters page includes one by future comics creator Roger Klorese.






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