As Mary Jane dances for her first paying job, Spider-Man has to deal with a new mind-controlling threat: The Brainwasher!
POINTLESS TRIVIA
BEN: Villain appearance count:
- Doctor Octopus: 9
- Green Goblin: 7
- Sandman: 4
- Kraven the Hunter: 5
- The Vulture: 5
- The Kingpin: 4
- Mysterio: 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
DUY: Mary Jane's first thought balloon:
DUY: I want to keep track of when exactly her next thought balloon is going to show up. I think it's the relative lack of thought balloons that made her so ripe for retcons.
BEN: And also, Peter and Gwen's first kiss, which she gives after seeing him for the first time since his amnesia episode.
WHAT'S AGED THE BEST?
DUY: I like the idea that Captain Stacy has been investigating Spider-Man this whole time. We know that by the time he dies, he'll have known who Peter is. Let's keep an eye out for when the most likely time is for him to have figured it out.
BEN: Spoilers!
WHAT'S AGED THE WORST?
DUY: I dunno, this has been a pretty unimpressive stretch of comics. I'm gonna mention too that I don't like the way Romita draws webs, where it's more of a net. Ditko drew them as a line with unintelligible scribbles, while we're two decades away from McFarlane inventing spaghetti webbing. But the net-webbing has never really worked for me.
BEN: It’s clear Heck did more work on some pages than others.
BEN: She's technically not the leading lady.
BEN: Aunt May is the leading lady.
NITPICKS
BEN: More of an error than a nitpick, Aunt May’s dialogue balloon is a thought balloon.
FAVORITE PANEL
BEN: Their first kiss:
DUY: Same.
WHO WON THE COMIC?
DUY: I'm going to say Mary Jane Watson here. It's interesting, both she and Gwen are drawn with relatively the same body type, but MJ is just drawn with more sex appeal. At this point it may be her defining characteristic, and that may be good, and that may be bad, but she wins the comic.
DUY: Thank you, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko—
BEN: —for telling us we aren't the only ones.
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