People who trot stuff like this need not assume that others will automatically understand or agree with criteria as vague as "something that worked" and turned it into something "that doesn't work nearly as well".Nor ought they to make blithe statements like this without offering evidence in support of such a claim. How is that when Spider-Man got married, the books sold so well, and sold far better than the stories that came right before and did so for 7 years straight? The David Michelinie run sold far better than the Roger Stern and Tom Defalco runs that came before. KRAVEN'S LAST HUNT and THE WEDDING ANNUAL sold far better than Gang War, Spider-Man V. Wolverine, the entire Hobgoblin Saga that dragged and bored people by then. Of the five biggest Spider-Man stories of the '80s -- SECRET WARS, THE WEDDING, KRAVEN'S LAST HUNT, VENOM, MacFarlane' SPIDER-MAN 1, four of them featured a married Spider-Man.
I don't think this claim that the marriage didn't work well has any substance or truth to it. It's a personal opinion, sure, but it cannot ever be passed or accepted as truth, nor I will add, was it in anyway representative of how the vast majority of Spider-Man's readership felt in the '80s (who I will also add is the biggest readership Spider-Man has had ever).
So again I must ask what makes you make such easily refutable claims as this?
You say stuff without any evidence in support.
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Relax man, everyone has their opinion, that you disagree with them doesn't mean you have to take it so hard. It's just comics. As far as comics sales go throughout the decades, a book sell more when the market is in is bigger, and less when the market is smaller, more in good times less in time of economic crises. A
look at the numbers also shows that the difference is irrelevant, actually one could say that from the year of the marriage onwards sales only declined. Obviously the marriage wasn't the main culprit, the market shrinking was, but don't go on this crusades about facts if you have yours wrong.
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Revolutionary_Jack
The "original concept that made him successful" if you mean high school...college-era Spider-Man and married Spider-Man outsold the previous status-quos far more than staying to the original concept ever did. The lowest-selling and lowest-read periods of Spider-Man are always the ones that fail to embrace the changes that have happened.
Spider-Man feeling guilt about Uncle Ben's death is a constant no matter what he does or how much he grows up.
It's important to point out he wasn't nothing of that at the start. In AF#15 you didn't have Jameson, you didn't have the Daily Bugle, you didn't have him working as a photographer, and the public didn't hate him or anything.