You really don’t want to mess with Uncle Web-Head when he’s mad; he’ll likely beat the stuffing out of you!
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #115
Published: c. October, 1972?
Cover Date: December, 1972
“The Last Battle!”
Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: John Romita
Inker: John Romita and Tony Mortellaro
Letterer: Artie Simek
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on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Yep, as I predicted, Paul is here to stay. Marvel want Peter and MJ apart, and Paul is the story…” Nov 4, 17:43
on Panel(s) of the Day #1610 (Mary Jane Monday!): “Wow, Peter actually said, “I done blame her.”” Nov 4, 13:28 on Panel of the Day #1609 (Splash Page Sunday!): “Who knew Peter had a skirt in his closet made out of webbing?” Nov 4, 07:43
on Panel(s) of the Day #1608 (Ditko!): “Peter is so upset that he forgot his own hyphen. Twice! And he also referred to himself as “The” Spiderman.” Nov 4, 04:28 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Joshua Nelson: At this point I don’t expect Marvel to have Peter tell Aunt May that he’s Spider-Man. If they…” Nov 3, 00:40 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Kenneth: I wasn’t even thinking about her health but you’re right. But just from the years of May making wheatcakes…” Nov 3, 00:36 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Dark Mark: Yeah, this issue really felt like an epilogue and not the final issue of a story. One issue…” Nov 3, 00:35
on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Well…it’s over. Like most, I have not liked this run. At all. There are plenty of things I can critique…” Nov 2, 18:13
on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Would anyone who had both heart attacks and cancer eat pizza? Especially at the age Aunt May is? Then again…” Nov 2, 06:24
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I wish she would have shot him… then took off his mask. That would have done the old bat in.
So Conway comes on board with #110 ish and within an issue of two Spidey is wearing a mask where you can see his eyes. The in store explanation was of course that Doc Ock pulled off the mask and JJJ was holding onto it, leaving Spidey to wear a costume bought from the store. This wouldve been a fine explanation for why he wore the mask for part of an issue. But he wore the mask where you could see his eyes for FOUR issues. Leaving me to think in retrospect that this mightve been an attempt at making this Spider-man’s premanaent look. Maybe it was an editorial direction from Stan Lee, who notoriously asked to give Iron Man a nose right around this same time? Or maybe it was an idea of Conways (ie “Wouldnt it be better if we could see the expression in his eyes?”) and now that he was the writer, he made the call to change the costume. They gave it an in-story explanation and let it play out for 4 issues. I can’t find anything on why they kept this look for so long. So Im thinking it was an attempt to see how the public reacted to seeing his eyes instead of the white lenses.
“Stop! Stop! He’s already dead!”