We’re keeping it leisurely in today’s Splash Page Sunday:
Man, poor Web-Head can’t even relax and read the paper without catching hell from ol’ JJJ!
Amazing Spider-man (Vol. 1) #53
Published: c. August, 1967?
Cover Date: October, 1967
“Enter: Dr. Octopus”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: John Romita
Inker: Mike Esposito
Letterer: Artie Simek
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“it defines everything that the character is.”
Which is why Dan Slott probably hates it.
One of my first visual remembrances of a Spider-Man comic. I love this issue and how it defines everything that the character is.
Great one.
Cheers.