Blog: Armagideon Time

"The Final Chapter!" from Amazing Spider-Man #33 (February 1966) is the appropriately-named conclusion to a three-part story arc that served as a pivotal moment in the title character's Lee-and-Ditko-produced Bildungsroman . In order to save his beloved Aunt May from a severe recurrence of chronic Pestilentia Melodramatica , Peter Parker suits up as Spider-Man and goes toe to toe with Doctor Octopus in order to retrieve the serum that could cure his ailing aunt. Things take a turn for the crappy, however, when Doc Ock's undersea lair collapses, trapping poor Spidey beneath a couple dozen tons [...]

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