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    This week in your collection?

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    From the TO Con on Sunday.

     

    Amazing Spider-Man #26, July 1965 (April 1965, newsstand). Steve Ditko cover.

     

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    As usual in these early Spider-Man comics, Peter Parker gets as much "air time" as Spider-man ... and poor Peter can't get a break.

     

    Betty Brant is all over Peter about Liz Allen and, as Betty had met Mary Jane Watson in issue #25, she's not to happy about him having a "secret" girlfriend who is "very hard to miss seeing!" To top things off, Liz Allen no longer wants to have anything to do with Peter when she sees Peter having a brawl with Flash and his cronys.

     

    Can things be worse? His Aunt May confiscated his Spider-man costume the previous issue and Peter is reduced to buying an ill-fitting Spidey suit from a costume store. He's forced to use his webbing to hold the ankles, wrists and mask attached. (It's his only luck this issue that he did stick down his mask as he is later clobbered by the Green Goblin's jet glider and the Goblin can't remove the mask of the unconscious Spider-Man.)

     

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    Gunsmoke Western #69, March 1962 (January 1962, newsstand). Kirby and Ayers cover.

     

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    There's a fine 6 page Kirby/Ayers story in here called "The Betrayer'. It's a formulaic 'family vs. duty' conflict but very nicely done in the early 60s Kirby style.

    I love those early Spideys