The Spectacular Spider-Man #166 (1990)

“The Deadly Lads From Liverpool”

Rating: 5/5

Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: Sal Buscema

Peter gets Fireheart (Puma) to send him to London via the Bugle. Chameleon makes a presentation for all the crime bosses about how bad the economy of crime is right now. MJ befriends a man she met on the set the first day she worked on the soap opera. In London, Spider-Man meets with the Inspector MacDougal at Scotland Yard. The MacDougal tells him about the history of Knight and Fogg. Malcolm Knight and Thomas Fogg were bad kids, beating up others. They were adopted by a drunk. They grew up working with mobsters. Became contract killers. Killed a brilliant physicist and accidentally activated whatever he was working on. It turned them into what they imagined themselves to be. Fogg, a slippery ghost of mist, and Knight, a medieval man of armor. Spidey goes to Liverpool and runs into their drunk father. They come along and battle Spidey. Knight throws him into the water. Peter wakes up on a boat with a foggy memory.