The agony!
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #214
Published: c. December, 1980?
Cover Date: March, 1981
“Then Shall We Both Be Betrayed!”
Writer: Denny O’Neil
Artist: John Romita Jr.
Inker: Jim Mooney
Letterer: Jim Novak
Colorist: Bob Sharen
What we have here is a big problem. Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #4 Published: c. July, 1963?Cover Date: September, 1963 “Nothing Can Stop… The Sandman!”Writer: Stan LeeArtist: Steve DitkoInker: Steve DitkoLetterer: Sam Rosen
Taken out of context, it’s kinda sounding like Aunt May has also died. Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #32 Published: c. November, 1965? Cover Date: January, 1966 “Man on a Rampage!” Plot: Steve Ditko Script: Stan […]
That’s quite an assortment of villains! What’s interesting, though, is that I think Rhino was hanging out with the Hulk around this time and hadn’t fought Spidey in a decade. Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #170 […]
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Just looked it up – FF 218 had Spidey fighting the Frightful Four and it was a two-parter, but part 1 was PPSSM #42, barely a year earlier than this panel. Funny how within a single year Spidey fights the Frightful Four twice – at least in this PPSSM/FF story the 4th member was Electro.
Man, they could not keep anyone in that 4th position of the Frightful Four for very long. It was like the drummer in Spinal Tap – constantly being replaced.
@hornacek and Adam — Wow, you guys know your history.
@hornacek: It was continued in ASM #215, which had the Fantastic Four show up briefly to help out Spidey and Namor. FF #218 was released several months before this issue, but did feature the Frightful Four.
Wasn’t this continued in FF #218 or something like that? This may have been my first exposure to a story that began in a series I was collecting and the conclusion being in a book I didn’t buy.