HELLO everyone, it's me Spider-Plush (Also known as Eddie) and welcome to another review.
Here is a short review that's gonna come out before the Gwenpool review.
So in 2022 i made a review of Amazing Fantasy #15 on twitter and only on twitter and i am here to write the full review.
Before we see the cover let's talk about behind the scenes info.
As some of you may remember, back in 1962, Stanley Martin Lieber, also known as Stan Lee was in his office thinking about new super hero ideas, when he saw a fly crawling on the wall and thought "gee wouldn't it be epic if there was a hero who could crawl on walls?" because flying is fucking overused, He also had the idea of giving him relatable problems and made him a teenager. His editor Martin Goodman hated the idea for the following reasons:
-Teenagers can't be super heroes, they can be sidekicks tho
-Spiders are fucking scary! (i agree spiders are scary)
-Heroes can't have personal problems
Stan gave the concept to Jack Kirby but Stan said he looked too heroic and too much like Captain America, so Stan gave the concept to Steve Ditko, who drew the classic spider-man costume that we know today. Jack still drew the cover tho.
They were about to cancel a series called Amazing Adult Fantasy, so they decided to put Spider-Man in the last issue, they also renamed the series to AMAZING FANTASY
This issue sold so well that fans were sending post cards and letters about how much they liked the Spider-man story and wanted to see more of him, which eventually led to them giving him his own series, just imagine that, having your own comic series all about you, that would be epic!
HERE IS THE COVER:
This cover is a fucking classic, it's been homaged a few times, a few of those times were in Amazing Spider-Man #252, Deadpool #11, Amazing Fantasy #15 (2005), Amazing Spider-Girl #0 and Marvel Zombies #1
The cover features Spider-Man swinging while carrying a guy, the guy is called Steve and he's just a guy that fell out of a window while trying to look at Spidey, HE'S NOT A CRIMINAL, STOP FALSELY ACCUSING HIM OF BEING A CRIMINAL! HE WAS JUST TRYING TO LOOK AT SPIDER-MAN WHILE TALKING TO HIS FRIEND STAN (Read Amazing Fantasy #15, the 2005 one.)
Spider-Man is just talking to no one about how cool he is or whatever, and there's also some fellas in the background, i don't know about you, but sometimes when i go out with the boys we just hang out on top of a building looking at all the super heroes, actually that is a lie, i don't have friends : (
This cover is cool but Jack Kirby did make more Spider-Man drawings later and his spider-man just doesn't look great.
Steve Ditko's cover went unused but it was still featured in later comics and trade paperbacks, i think it was also a variant cover for ASM #700
sORRY FOR LOW QUALITY THIS WAS TAKEN FROM MARVEL FANDOM WIKIA, THEY ALWAYS HAVE LOW QUALITY PICS.
Now, this cover is cool, but have any of you actually read the issue? (type your answer in the comments but KEEP IN MIND IF YOU'RE GONNA COMMENT IT WILL USE THE NAME OF UR EMAIL AS UR USERNAME)... yeah that's what i thought.
Alright so the comic starts with Peter Parker with his sad face looking at his classmates who are making fun of poor Peter, calling him a bookworm and stuff.
All of this happens and no one notices that his shadow looks like a man in a giant spider-web, but i guess there's more important things to worry about.
So peter's only friends are his two family members, Uncle Ben and Aunt May. His professors think that he's a really good student but he just doesn't have any friends and he gets bullied by this dude called Flash Thompson.
So peter get's rejected by Sally (i don't know her last name) and a few hours later he asks if anyone wants to go with him to a science demonstration, they say no and leave.
But he forgets about it and goes to the science thing alone. They are talking about radioactivity and how those two giant radishes are gonna do something radioactive or whatever the fuck.
HOWEVER, a tiny spider goes between the two red spheres and gets hit by the radioactive rays, but while the spider is dying it manages to bite Peter Parker
They made a few retcons to this part, for example, the spider was there because of destiny and peter was just meant to be spider-man. The spider also bites Cindy Moon and then the spider gets eaten by this guy called Carl King, but no one cares about those losers so let's get back to the story.
Peter has to leave to get fresh air but gets too distracted by his fingertips turning yellow that he doesn't notice a car is about to hit him, but his Spider-Sense warns him and then he jumps to a nearby wall. You may have noticed that in this page he drops the books on panel 4 and then he just has them on panel 7 but maybe he just picked them up.
Peter discovers that he can crawl walls now, and a child notices but his mother just doesn't give a shit and thinks that his child is going insane and has watched a lot of horror films.
Yeah you remember that classic horror film, ATTACK OF THE SPIDER-PEOPLE, fucking cinema classic, man.
Peter decides to use his abilities to get money by becoming a wrestler and decides to wear a mask because if he fails then no one will know it was him.
He is about to be with Crusher Hogan for 3 minutes just so he can get 100 dollars, which was a lot back in the 60's, nowadays, with 100 dollars you can buy an Omnibus of the entirety of the Stan Lee and Steve Ditko era of Spider-Man, i don't know let me check the price... yeah it's like 104 dollars on Amazon, Idk man i would just buy the 1990's Spider-Man Classic reprints, or the Facsimile Editions that are coming out.
But enough about comics, let's talk about this comic!
Peter challenges Crusher Hogan, he doesn't sign any papers or anything, he just challenges him.
Crusher just gives up after seeing that Peter can do things like crawl on the wall and carry crusher, and everyone is like "WOW HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT" and This producer guy approaches peter and tells him that "Hey you need a tv show, and oh yeah here's your 100 dollars"
Peter goes home and makes a new costume with some old spandex suits he found while dumpster diving (According to Spider-Man: The Ultimate Guide by Tom DeFalco)
He makes web shooters and tries on his costume, he doesn't take long to choose a name, he just chooses Spiderman (no hyphen yet)
and we get this iconic panel
I just wish that the Spider-Man movies were more accurate to the Steve Ditko comics, i just want a movie where the villain is THE LIVING BRAIN from ASM #8.
So we enter part two and HOLY SHIT HE'S CRAWLING THE WALL AGAIN
Everyone is shocked to see that this guy is clearly wall-crawling without the use of harnesses or special effects, he can just do that.
After the show everyone wants to talk to this guy and make deals with him but he's just too busy to think about being in a movie, but just imagine that... A Spider-Man movie, that would be cool.
BUT WAIT! there is a guy running away from the police!
Spider-Man let's him go because he just doesn't give a shit anymore, the police guy yells at him but again, he just leaves and goes home.
The next day peter gets that microscope that he's always wanted. In the reboot Spider-Man Chapter One, he gets a computer instead of a microscope because they wanted to modernize things.
So nothing happens for a few days, but Spider-Man is the newest TV sensations! thousands (hundreds) of people are watching this show, honestly i just wonder what is the name of this show.
Every newspaper ever is talking about him, it's just like in 2021. Oh and there's also two other spider-men and a giant flying head.
One night, peter is returning home after his show, and he sees a police car in front of his house.
Some guy broke in and shot his uncle.
His first thoughts are "I HAVE TO FIND THE KILLER" and so he puts on his Spider-Man costume and goes to the old ACME warehouse.
The killer was just waiting for the police to give up and leave, yeah he's not very smart.
Spider-Man beats the shit out of him but then he makes a shocking realization
WHAAAAAAAAT?, it was the guy he didn't stop!?!? Holy Shit! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT HE'S SO STUPID.
Peter cries about this situation and goes home walking, all sad because of what happened, learning that with great power, there must also always come great responsibility.
Now, in that last bunch of text, it says to wait for the next issue to see more Spider-Man adventures, however the series was cancelled so we never heard of this guy again. Honestly, i just think that they should make more Spider-Man comics, because this one was just great!
10/10.
There are 3 more stories in this comic, things like THE BELL RINGER, THE MAN IN THE MUMMY CASE and THERE ARE MARTIANS AMONG US (don't fucking say it) but those will be reviewed later.
That'll be it for Spider-Plush's amazing reviews, see you next review, when i finally review Gwenpool Strikes Back.
NEXT ARTICLE: I don't know, probably more whining.}
Announcement: i will officially stop saying shit like "see you later alligator" because it's just too cringy. However i will continue to say HELLO in all caps.
TODAY'S SHOUTOUT: The 3 daily accounts that are left.
Special Thanks:
Stan Lee.
Jack Kirby.
Martin Goodman.
Steve Ditko.
That fly that was crawling on the wall.
The Comics Code Authority.
YOU!
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