“Amazing Spider-Man” issue 33.
There was no other logical choice for our 100th Spidey Memory. Not the spider bite, not the six arms, not the marriage, not Juggernaut or adultry with Betty Brant.
Steve Ditko created an image so iconic that it’s been homaged a dozen times. It has had some many tributes that Tom Breevort had to tell people stop calling back to it in the “Spider-Man Manifesto”.
For those who don’t know the story, Spidey has just battled Doctor Octopus in his underwater lair. It is now being flooded and if he can’t lift the wreckage in time, not only will he die but his Aunt May will die too. If he drowns then he can’t deliver the medicine that is needed to save (this is before it was a cliche folks). The scene starts off with small panels and as the pages go by and Spidey gets more determined the panels get bigger and bigger, eventually climaxing in the page you are seeing now. One podcast argued that this scene could’ve only taken place in a manner of seconds, but there is no way you could still think that after hearing it being dramatized by our “Amazing Spider-Man” reviewer Donovan. He did a wonderful reading of it on “Amazing Spider-Man Classics” before it went the way of the dinosaur.
Like I said, I could think of no other scene that deserves 100 more than this (although I’m sure many of you disagree).
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Wonderful! Wonderful!
This is my favorite story of all time! Always! Always!
The greatest moment of hero Peter Parker, who once knew the maxim “Great powers, great responsibilities …”, by an act of selfishness, now known through love. His love for May.
“Anyone can win a fight when the odds are easy! It’s when the going’s tough when there seems to be no chance that’s when it counts!”
Beautiful! Only a true believer can understand fully what is this story! No matter what happens, Peter Parker will always be the greatest comic book hero!
Thank you Stan! Thank you Mr. Ditko!
my favorite spidey comic is still the boy who loved spider-man. best issue ever.
One of the best moments in comic book history.
Great choice guys!
I love this one because it is a matter of fact, iconic.
Nice choice, I wasn’t sure from your previous post which panel would be the 100th…for some reason i was thinking it was going to be ASM200. This one is just as classic, Happy 100th! Keep em coming!
Classic.
You really got me with that
And you are right, have a bar of chocolate, cause it’s better than a cigar