Silvermane has used the Petrified Clay Stone Tablet to restore his youth!
POINTLESS TRIVIA
BEN: Villain appearance count:
- Doctor Octopus: 9
- The Kingpin: 9
- Green Goblin: 8
- The Vulture: 7
- Mysterio: 6
- Kraven the Hunter: 5
- Sandman: 4
- The Enforcers: 3
- The Rhino: 3
- The Lizard: 3
- Professor Smythe/Spider Slayer: 3
- The Chameleon: 2
- Electro: 2
- The Ringmaster: 2
- Scorpion: 2
- Molten Man: 2
- Shocker: 2
- Man Mountain Marko: 3
- Silvermane: 3
- Scorpion: 2
DUY: At eight issues (68-75), the Stone Tablet Saga may be the longest-running arc thus far in the series. It's not the main plot in virtually any issue, so it definitely feels like the start of what would become the standard A-plot B-plot C-plot storytelling that would be perfected by the 70s. From the DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics, here's a diagram of how that works, called the Levitz Paradigm, after famed editor Paul Levitz.
BEN: The Comics Buyers Guide put it on their top 1000 comics ever list, and I wonder if it’s because it had that long-form build-up that not many stories had at the time.
DUY: This seems like a good issue to put it, but it's been theorized that the term "Maggia" was created to not offend the Mafia, who was actually controlling a lot of print distribution at the time.
BEN: Maybe they were offended for not being included?
WHAT'S AGED THE BEST?
BEN: The Comics Buyers Guide put it on their top 1000 comics ever list, and I wonder if it’s because it had that long-form build-up that not many stories had at the time.
BEN: Maybe they were offended for not being included?
WHAT'S AGED THE BEST?
BEN: Even though he’s a pretty generic mobster boss in this first storyline, Silvermane becomes so much more fun later. He ages backwards here, thanks to the tablet, and that's always a fun concept.
DUY: And it's always a logical concept too, like why would a fountain of youth stop at a certain age.
BEN: So... does he become sperm at the end?
DUY: ...Yes.
WHAT'S AGED THE WORST?
DUY: Dr. Doom can talk like this. Loki can talk like this. Spider-Man villains should have to earn the right to talk like this. And Silvermane has not earned that right, nor will he ever.
NITPICKS
BEN: How did he manage to get the name Silvermane? He was obviously a young man once.
DUY: You know how Scar from the Lion King has a scar but probably didn't have it when he was actually named Scar. How people are named Smithers and Jeeves before they become butlers. How a library collections officer happens to be named Bookman.
BEN: Bookman may have been inspired by his name.
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FAVORITE PANEL
BEN: I love a well done eyes with effects shot:
DUY: That's mine too. Intense.
WHO WON THE COMIC?
BEN: I think it’s pretty clearly Gwen Stacy
DUY: I'm gonna say Curt Connors. If you switched Connors with Bruce Banner in a story like this would it make much of a difference?
BEN: He should have been in this!
DUY: That's it for Spider-Rama this week.BEN: Thank you, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko—
DUY: —for telling us we aren't the only ones.
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