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Shriek of the Vulture
Review by Amazing Spidey; Screenshots by Kolbar

Episode #26 - Shriek of the Vulture
Original Airdate - February 17, 1996

While CEO Adrian Toomes is absorbed in regaining his youth, Norman Osborn is engineering a hostile takeover of Toomes Aeronautical. Toomes vows revenge and takes to the air as the Vulture, armed with youth-absorbing talons that temporarily make him young. Meanwhile, on campus, Peter arrives to see Mary Jane in Faust where Harry Osborn is snatched out of the audience by the Vulture. Spidey rescues Harry, but the Vulture escapes. Later, as Toomes' talons grip Spider-Man's shoulders, Spidey's strength and vitality fade while the Vulture revels in newfound youth and super strength. To make his victory complete, Toomes begins to rip off Spidey's mask...

Review:

This is the penultimate episode to The Neogenic Nightmare and it’s quite a memorable one. It introduced The Vulture, which was pretty weird to me, as it’s not quite The Vulture I was expecting, I remember an old man who robbed jewellery stores, not a man who sucked the youth out of people.

Using the technology he bought in the tedious Tablet Of Time arc, The Vulture could now suck the youth out of people. As most villains in this cartoon did, he went after someone Spidey knew, Norman Osborn. Osborn, who is shown here as a ruthless businessman is trying to buy The Vultures Company, believes that he is too old and feeble to run it.

It was an enjoyable episode, which had a great finale. After Spider-Man figured out what was going on he was saved by Flash Thompson and had his youth sucked out of him. The finale shot was Spidey mask less, as an old man. Pretty cool.

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