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Doctor Strange and Spidey | The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 Aug 01, 2018

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Spidey teams up with Doctor Strange, who happens to be the other big co-creation of Spidey artist Steve Ditko. There's very little Peter Parker as the two Ditko superheroes battle a pleasantly very evil wizard named Xandu! Ah, HERE'S the great Ditko art we were missing a bit in the last regular issue!

The Menace of the Molten Man! | The Amazing Spider-Man #28 Jul 25, 2018

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Sure there's a golden man who can punch like a wrecking ball but also: PETER PARKER GRADUATES HIGH SCHOOL! Kevin and Will get into this momentous event. We also talk about how Ditko's plotting seems to focus way more on Peter's civilian life than his super-hero exploits as Spidey and how that's cool. Also this issue features some very rare bad Ditko art! Relatively speaking since, no surprise, we still love it.

Bring Back My Goblin To Me! | The Amazing Spider-Man #27 Jul 18, 2018

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We are well into the era where artist Steve Ditko had stopped talking to writer/editor Stan Lee, and it's making for stories with very unique structures! For example, in this issue -- the battle is over at the halfway point, and then there's about 10 pages of wrapping everything up! It's… not bad! But it feels different than most super-hero books! Listen to hosts Kevin and Will talk about it forever!

The Man In The Crime-Master's Mask | The Amazing Spider-Man #26 Jul 11, 2018

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Spidey fights not ONE but TWO villains with secret identities: The Green Goblin and also -- THE CRIME MASTER! It's yet another guy who's plan is to unite all the crime syndicates in NYC! Will the fact that Spidey-Man has to use a cheap rented costume slow him down! Hint: yes! Kevin and Will like this issue as they realize that they had underestimated this particular era of the Ditko-Lee partnership.

Eulogy: Steve Ditko (1927 - 2018) Jul 08, 2018

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Steve Ditko passed away this week at the age of 90. We recorded this episode the morning after the news broke. As listeners know, he is the artist and co-creator of Spider-Man. Hosts Kevin and Will give him a special eulogy episode where we talk about what made Ditko so special, about how big his impact was on Marvel in particular and comics in general. We get into this feud with Marvel, his eccentric reclusivity, his non-Marvel comics. RIP Steve Ditko, one of the giants of comics!

Emergency Episode: Instant Classics! Vol. 1 Jul 04, 2018

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We interrupt our flow of doing the Ditko issues to talk about two brand-new issues of Spider-Man, because they are so good! Instant Classics. One is Dan Slott's final issue -- Amazing Spider-Man #801. And the other, Chip Szdarsky's Spectacular Spider-Man Annual with a JJJ story. They both broke our hearts and we had to talk about it!

The Spider-Slayers | The Amazing Spider-Man #25 Jun 27, 2018

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First appearance of the Spider-Slayer robot, back when it was just the Spider-capturing robot! Also, Kevin and Will realize every teenager on Peter Parker's block is a nephew/niece with no parents in sight. Weird, right? And we catch up reader mail, which leads to Will pitching an impressively detailed vision for an Enforcers television show.

Best Non-Ditko Spidey Stories: Part 1 Jun 20, 2018

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Kevin and Will break from the format of the podcast to talk about Spidey stories from after the original Steve Ditko era! They talk about two in this episode: The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man and Kraven's Last Hunt! Both are so cool!

Spider-Man Goes Mad! w/ Joe Quinones and Jordan Gibson (Penciller/Colorist: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man) | The Amazing Spider-Man #24 Jun 13, 2018

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The current penciller (Joe Quinones) and colorist (Jordan Gibson) for "Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man" join Kevin and Will to talk about the psychological drama that is issue 24 -- Spider-Man Goes Mad! We get into: Ditko hands! Gangster Faces! European Therapists! And how a villain really gives away his guilt when he instantly tries to run away at the first accusation! We also talk about Joe and Jordan's recent issues, which had modern Spidey meet Ditko Spidey! This is a CAN'T MISS ep!

The Goblin and the Gangsters w/ Chip Zdarsky (Writer: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man) | The Amazing Spider-Man #23 Jun 06, 2018

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Kevin and Will are joined by Chip Zdarsky, current writer for the Marvel Comic "Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man." We talk about his recent story in which 2018 Spider-Man time-travels to… the Spider-Man of THIS EPISODE'S ISSUE! So cool! We get into: What exactly is the Green Goblin's concept? Do all newspaper publishers micro-manage as much as JJJ? Is Betty Brant a robot? And why does gangster Lucky Lobo snap his cigar?

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