THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #344
Volume 1 · 1963-2012
Published
February 1991
Cover price
$1.00 USD
Edition
DIRECT EDITION
Era
Copper
UPC
DRUWIS Contact
Key issue
Yes

Creators

Writer
David Michelinie 'Barry Jameson'
Penciler
Erik Larsen
Inker
Randy Emberlin
Letterer
Rick Parker
Cover artist
Erik Larsen, Randy Emberlin
Editor
Cardiac (Elias Wirtham), Carnage (Cletus Kasady), Dan Cuddy, Jim Salicrup, Justin Hammer, Mary 'MJ' Watson, Rhino (Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Venom (Edward Charles Allen Brock)

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Key issue
1st Appearance of Wirtham Tower; 1st and Only Appearance of Carter (Employee of Hammer Industries); 1st and Only Appearance of Stephanie Truxton (Dr. Wirtham''s Assistant)

Synopsis

Hearts And Powers As Spidey takes photos of a Sapirdyne Chemicals warehouse operation shipping legal cocaine-processing additives to South America, Cardiac breaks in, attempting to disrupt the drug trade by destroying the building. When Spidey stops him. Cardiac strikes back and escapes. Justin Hammer, secretly Sapirdyne's majority shareholder, learns of the raid and calls in Rhino to protect his interests. At Ryker's Island Prison, Eddie Brock's psychotic serial killer cellmate Cletus Kasady sees a dark figure at their top-floor cell window but it disappears when he investigates. Meanwhile, Cardiac infiltrates the Sapirdyne Chemical plant where the waiting Rhino batters him. Spidey, investigating Sapirdyne. intercedes, saving Cardiac. When Rhino uses live wires to shock Spidey into submission, Cardiac returns the favor. With Spidey still recovering, however. Cardiac releases flammable chemicals that flow toward the live wires. The three combatants escape before the building explodes. Hammer learns of Cardiac's attack, noticing that Spidey wants to stop him as well. He decides to put the web-slinger on the payroll.