Crime boss Silvermane hires Man Mountain Marko to retrieve the Petrified Clay Stone Tablet thing!
POINTLESS TRIVIA
BEN: First appearance of Silvermane, an important figure in the Marvel criminal underworld, and future disembodied head on a remote control car.
DUY: First appearance of the man, the myth, the legend; Man Mountain Marko.
BEN: And a million comic nerd jokes were born...
WHAT'S AGED THE BEST?
BEN: I’ve always liked anytime Robbie is in charge and the reporting becomes unbiased and factual.
WHAT'S AGED THE WORST?
BEN: "Man Mountain."
BEN: We’ve mentioned this before but the gray coloring on black characters is not only puzzling, it’s distracting. I keep thinking they are zombies.
NITPICKS
BEN: One of my favorite anecdotes about the writers room of classic HBO drama The Wire, was when the room was having trouble getting a character into a specific place they needed him to be believably. A writer suggested the standard “ran into someone” that had omniscient knowledge of a situation they would not have knowledge of, so they could get the character moving in the right direction. David Simon shot it down, saying there’s no way that would ever happen in real life. So yeah, Spider-Man happening upon the Shocker’s girlfriend in New York City directly after getting the tip from Captain Stacy, no way..
DUY: What an anticlimactic cliffhanger.
BEN: C'mon, they kidnapped a biochemist all the way from Florida to decipher hieroglyphics??
FAVORITE PANEL
FAVORITE PANEL
BEN: We’ll never get anywhere until we recognize who our real enemies are:
DUY: I love that, so I'll go with this entire sequence, which must have been mindblowing in the 60s. The best part about it is Robbie just having a conversation with his son and not talking down to him:
WHO WON THE COMIC?
DUY: Robbie and Randy.
DUY: Thank you, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko—
BEN: —for telling us we aren't the only ones.
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