Professor Smythe returns with an all-new, all-improved Spider-Slayer, just as Spider-Man gets his memory back.
POINTLESS TRIVIA
BEN: Villain appearance count:
- Doctor Octopus: 9
- Green Goblin: 7
- Sandman: 4
- Kraven the Hunter: 5
- The Vulture: 5
- Mysterio: 4
- The Enforcers: 3
- The Rhino: 3
- The Lizard: 3
- The Kingpin: 3
- Professor Smythe/Spider Slayer: 3
- The Chameleon: 2
- Electro: 2
- The Ringmaster: 2
- Scorpion: 2
- Molten Man: 2
- Shocker: 1
DUY: We find out Robbie Robertson used to serve in the military, and Stan actually does it in an organic, natural way: John Jameson just asks him if he ever feels like getting back in uniform.
WHAT'S AGED THE BEST?
BEN: Spider Slayers. They're basically drones.
DUY: The nuance given to JJJ in this issue will eventually be the type of nuance that will come to define him.
BEN: He just wants to catch him, not kill him.
WHAT'S AGED THE WORST?
BEN: All apologies to Don Heck, but you’re no Romita, even with him doing the layouts.
NITPICKS
DUY: Where did Ka-Zar get the rope he's swinging from in the splash page, and how did he get it high enough to swing from it? Did he take a rope, climb a building, tie it there, go back down, and get Spider-Man?
BEN: And Spider-Man's amnesia is cured by cold water, when Ka-Zar fished him out of the lake in the previous issue?
FAVORITE PANEL
FAVORITE PANEL
BEN: Mine:
DUY: Wow, Ka-Zar is an idiot. "This civilian is giving me the same vibes as Spider-Man, whose face I've never seen. Oh well!" And here's mine:
DUY: I had misremembered this issue — and really anything involving the Spider-slayers —as JJJ just doing a criminal action for his obsession. It was nice to see that he just legitimately thinks Spider-Man is a menace and he wanted to play hero, but that even he doesn't want Spider-Man dead if it's unnecessary.
WHO WON THE COMIC?
BEN: There were no winners in this one.
DUY: I can name a loser. Aunt May.
BEN: That's it for Spider-Rama this week.
DUY: Thank you, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko—
BEN: —for telling us we aren't the only ones.
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