Amazing Spiderman #33 (1966) by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
-The cover of ASM #33 shows Spidy being crushed by debris and saying this is the “Final Chapter!”
talk about false advertising...!
-The first two pages recap that aunt may is dying due to contact with peter's radioactive blood, and doc-ock has stolen the only cure. Spidy tries to break out of all this metal on top of him, but he seems to be too weak.
*Fun Fact: Spider-man can apparently lift an average of 10 tons, so I’m pretty surprised how weak he is in these older issues.
Page 4-5: In an emotional moment, he calls upon the memories of his uncle and he dares not allow his aunt to die as well.
Page 7: As I figured, Spidy breaks free and grabs the serum he needs...but he's still injured.
Page 8-9: He is smashed by flooding water and is forced to swim to an escape.
He is ambushed by doc-ocks freaky purple henchmen dudes (seriously, they are weird looking)
Do these eight guys (yes, I counted them) think they can beat up spider-man? Really?
Page 10: Well, they actually do get a bunch of blows in on him, but as spidy points out...the punches barely phase him. He eventually punches them all back with the same spirit he displayed before.
Page 13: Spiderman makes it back to Dr. Connors, who finishes the cure for aunt may's disease.
Page 16: Spiderman takes pictures of the purple goons in order to get some money from the bugle.
Page 17-18: Peter returns to the office and Betty is surprised to see that Peter is beat to hell.
In the last pages, peter returns to hospital and discovers that aunt may has recovered.
Kraven the hunter is also teased for the next issue, and that seems pretty interesting.
I would give this issue a 9 out of 10, pretty nice, and one of the best I've seen from the original run. The issue is classic, and the cover is really great. Though I felt like this only really wrapped up the last issue and nothing more.
Amazing Spiderman #691 (2012)
Written by Dan Slot and Penciled by Giuseppe Camuncoli
Note:
This is part 4 of the "No Turning Back" Arc that I read a year ago, featuring the Lizard and published around the time of the first Amazing Spiderman movie. They gave electro the spotlight around the same time in Vol.3 of ASM for the first few issues (around the time of the ASM 2 movie), but I still need to collect the rest of that arc. In fact, I wanted to write a whole rant about Vol.3 #4 and about Silk and all that...but figured it would be pointless.
The cover is very interesting with the whole “Lizard Eye” thing, and it's really neat to look at it.
It looks very rough and dramatic with Spidy punching at the eyeball. A solid 4/5 cover.
Page 1: There is a lizardman outbreak inside Horizon Labs, and it's Peter's job to figure out how to fix it.
Page 3-4: It seems that since lizards and humans are not natural enemies, these transformed lizard-people aren't rampaging around. Peter realizes that even though Curt Connors is currently not in his lizard form, but he could still be evil enough to think up this plan. Peter then realizes that The Lizard would be able to control all the other lizard-people in the lab, so he tries to move him out of the building. I really like how one panel used motion blur to convey a serious sense of speed.
Page 7: The lizard, rather than his normal form, turns into a giant reptile mutant since he made some super-strong formula. But if he's made himself so beastly, how come he can still speak and whatnot? I guess his intelligence is still somehow the same and he is stronger. Bruce Banner and Dr. Conners should probably have a chat sometime about that.
Page 9-11: Peter and the juiced-up lizard fight outside near the waterfront, and the same sort of motion blurring is used. I really like the way these fights look, especially since the lizard is pounding the life out of spider-man.
Page 12-14: (the new) Madame Web [I say new since whenever I think of Web, it's the old woman from the 90's animated series, ie: the original] shows up and warns spider-man that if he delivers the cure [that he did receive] into Curt, that it might actually kill him. Peter says that it's probably worth the risk in order to save the dozens of people in harm's way. He slams the needle into him in a large panel.
Page 15: It seems like the cure completely fails, and the lizard is sent off to SHEILD prison. There's also a pretty funny joke that people are either turning into spiders [spider island] or lizard-people in NYC! What a crazy place.
Page 16-18: Meanwhile, The Kingpin [Wilson Fisk] is working with Mr. Stone from the lab to create some sort of “Spider Jammer” machine based on max's technology [max is the head of the labs]. Sounds very interesting.
Kingpin must feel pretty awesome in Shadowland. He's surrounded by ninjas and the newest Hobgoblin as well.
Page 19: Madame Web is very concerned about these events, but she also cuts back to a drug cartel in mexico where a hero [who looks like a orange and black palette swap of iron fist, sort of] is holding two uzi's and telling everyone this is his territory. He is called the Devil Spider! Another Spider? Great...Well actually, this man is Roderick Kingsly, the original hobgoblin who was in hiding while he waited for his brother to take up the title of Hobgoblin. Too bad for him, his brother is actually dead and this new hobgoblin is somebody else entirely. It should be cool to see the original hobgoblin face off against the new one. I thought this issue was pretty good, action packed, and had a interesting cliffhanger that left me head-scratching until I did some research. 7.5/10
-The next review in my archive was for Scarlet Spider (2012) #8, so I might publish that next, -
-The next review in my archive was for Scarlet Spider (2012) #8, so I might publish that next, -
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