Things to think about.
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #122
Published: c. April, 1973?
Cover Date: July, 1973
“The Goblin’s Last Stand!”
Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: Gil Kane
Inker: John Romita and Tony Mortellaro
Letterer: Artie Simek
Colorist: Dave Hunt
I meant a funeral pyre, like Luke did to Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi.
@hornacek cutting off the head would work. Burning the body wouldn’t (as we saw when he survived the bag of goblin bombs in PP:SM #75).
Spidey should have burned the body here, or cut off his head. Just to be sure.
And Conway was only 19 or 20 when he wrote this.