AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #7
by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Spider-Man battles the Vulture again, and Peter and Betty Brant get closer.
POINTLESS TRIVIA
BEN: Spider-Man’s first repeat villain is the Vulture, a fact that I had forgotten.
BEN: First time Spider-Man has had to fight with a busted arm, an eventual trope.
BEN: First time Spider-Man fights a villain in the Bugle offices.
DUY: Since we're tracking the evolution of his humor as well, I'll point out that the cover blurb flat-out says that joking is part of what makes him "at his best."
BEN: Second billed before "daring".
FAVORITE PANEL
BEN: Peter sitting on the floor talking to Betty is a scene that’s always stuck with me for whatever reason. It’s something that real people would do, I guess.
DUY: This is when they finally start playing with these close shaves with Aunt May:
BEN: Spider-Man is in full-on wisecracking mode now. I love it.
DUY: Why do secret identities work? Because if you do it right, the character you're keeping it a secret from wouldn't believe you anyway.
BEN: I prefer the concept that most people wouldn’t even consider that Spider-Man or Superman spend time as anyone else. But that doesn’t come until much much later.
DUY: The Vulture. Bad joke?
BEN: I'll allow it.
NITPICKS
BEN: It’s probably not a great idea to give a gifted engineer access to the prison machine shop.
DUY: The Vulture gets released for being a model inmate. Can you really become a model inmate in what would be five months at most?
WHO WON THE COMIC?
DUY: Spider-Man, for this one. I love his rhythm by this point and the confidence he's building.
BEN: The Vulture. It's time the elderly got the respect they earned as winged menaces. I’ve been rewatching The Sopranos, tell me Junior Soprano isn’t the real life Adrian Toomes.
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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