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75 cents! I could just use the \u201cCollector\u2019s Series\u201d issues for this, but I may as well use this if I got it. I feel like you can see a little of Al Milgrom\u2019s 80s take on Spidey in the figure on this cover. It HAD to happen, they say. I guess it did. This issue\u2019s splash has a lot going on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First time credits for anyone other than Lee & Ditko. A first name for Miss Brant. The other Spider-Man? An FF appearance? If the cover didn\u2019t sell it, this page surely would have. We begin with a TV show sponsored by JJJ, who introduces himself as the publisher of NOW Magazine and The Daily Bugle, who wants to show you how Spider-Man is a menace. The gang is watching this in a bowling alley. Flash says Spider-Man is the coolest. Peter says JJJ could be right to make sure no one suspects him. Liz is sure Spider-Man is dreamy under that mask. No one else gets a name. But they\u2019re not the only ones watching this show\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s so funny to me how villains were constantly dying at the end of their appearances for so long, requiring an escape to be shown in their next appearance. If you were some odd duck who bought Spider-Man but not FF, what do you care how he escaped them? But if they didn\u2019t tell us, we\u2019d cry foul. Sadly, these days, characters come back from the dead with no explanation remarkably often, with editorial seemingly terrified to reference a comic you\u2019re not holding. It vexes me. Anyway, a SECOND villain is calling Spider-Man\u2019s brain like it\u2019s a radio in 5 issues. I mean, that\u2019s a little much. Anyway, chilling at home. Spidey gets the signal, and follows it to its point of origin, wondering who could\u2019ve figured out how to do this like The Chameleon didn\u2019t just guess recently. When he arrives at Doom\u2019s lair, he\u2019s taken aback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A dummy or a Doombot? Doom opens a trap door beneath Spider-Man, but he just flips away from it. Doom smacks him out of the air and starts zapping him with the gun in his finger tip. Spidey decides to run for it, and in a clear disagreement between Lee & Ditko, is seen being shot out a window by Doom while talking like he just decided to jump out.  He plummets into the water below, again with Stan having him think he did it on purpose, but Doom says Spider-Man will still serve his purpose. He resolves to learn Spider-Man\u2019s identity to use it against him. As Spidey climbs up out of the drink for round 2, Doom detonates the whole building they fought in. Don\u2019t mess around with that guy. Spidey nabs some pictures of the fire and takes off. The next day, JJJ buys them, lamenting that Spider-Man\u2019s not in them so he could pin the fire on him. Peter says he\u2019s heard some people say JJJ is too hard on Spider-Man, and Betty agrees. Peter thinks he never knew he had an ally in her, and never realized how pretty se is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ditko & Lee had a lot of brilliant ideas in Spider-Man, but setting up Peter Parker\u2019s worst enemy as Spider-Man\u2019s biggest fan really is way up there. Here comes an incredible coincidence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even pompous Doom is surprised by how easily he trapped his prey. The kids are confused when Flash never jumps out, and then we follow Peter home, where Aunt May\u2019s viewing of The Ed Sullivan Show is interrupted by Dr. Doom cutting into the broadcast. He demands The FF disband and surrender to him one at a time in one hour, or he kills Spider-Man. This is a pretty big surprise to Peter, obviously, but then Liz called to say she\u2019s afraid that\u2019s Flash. Peter says there\u2019s nothing he can do, and even briefly entertains the idea of just letting Doom kill Flash, but of course, he can\u2019t do that. After removing the master fuse to the house as an excuse to go buy a new one, he slips into his Spidey suit to get ready for action.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a great cameo by The FF! That\u2019s funny. Spidey swings up to an abandoned factory where, inside, Doom is disgusted by what a sniveling coward Spider-Man is, denying he\u2019s the real Spider-Man and begging to be set loose. The real Spidey sneaks in through an air vent, figuring the place must be full of traps for The FF, but not for him. Soon, he\u2019s found his way to a very surprised Dr. Doom, and it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doom has all kinds of traps in store, like iron balls spun at dizzying speed and setting the whole floor on fire, but Spider-Man outsmarts them all, until he hands on a panel that begins zapping him with electricity. So, he just webs Doom, adding him to the circuit and forcing him to shut off the current before it gets too dangerous. But before Spidey can press the advantage, a 2nd Dr. Doom grabs him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doom moves in and just starts wailing on our hero, immune to the effects of his disintegrator, slowly forcing Spider-Man towards it. At the last second, he manages to force both of them into the controls, shutting off the weapon, but leaving himself open for a real beating from Doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fun resolution. Spidey just barely surviving a fight with Doom makes sense (And, as we\u2019ve seen in comics like ASM 350, happens often), and Peter just cutting out and leaving Flash is really funny. And whaddaya know, the start of something between Peter & Betty. These issues are so packed. I\u2019m interested to show the 2nd of the \u201cCollectible Series\u201d covers for this one, because\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s Ron Frenz. And he\u2019s not doing nearly the Ditko impression he did in the 80s. Interesting to me, he\u2019s copying a lot of this specific cover pretty faithfully, down to the unique eye shape, but he\u2019s not doing the denser web pattern. Of all the guys to NOT do a total Ditko impression. What a mystery. I guess he\u2019d kind of grown out of just ripping off Ditko even by the Thor comics we\u2019ve seen, let alone by 2006, but it\u2019s still weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

75 cents! I could just use the \u201cCollector\u2019s Series\u201d issues for this, but I may as well use this if I got it. I feel like you can see a little of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9,35,11,106,12,13,172,2,6,8],"class_list":["post-14926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-aunt-may","tag-betty-brant","tag-dr-doom","tag-flash-thompson","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-liz-allen","tag-spider-man","tag-stan-lee","tag-steve-ditko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14941,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/14941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}