Datasheet of High School Spider-Man in the Lee-Ditko Spider-Man

[Revolutionary_Jack]

I recently put together a post on my blog that I think might be worth people's time here.
https://elvingsmusings.wordpress.com...spidey-really/

For more than a week I've been reading every issue of Lee-Ditko Spider-Man, especially the time when Peter was in high school. This time I went panel-by-panel and page-by-page. The good thing about the L-D era is that it's short enough that you can actually go deep.

The post is quite long and much of that explains and clarifies how I put the data together and what it does and doesn't do.

For those who don't have the time. Here's the datasheet covering the first 30 issues of the Lee-Ditko era (and the 2 Annuals, AF#15).

Each of the columns clarifies how many panels each issue features High School, features the Daily Bugle, features the Home setting:

Panel Vector Datasheet.jpg

Here's a High-Res:
https://elvingsmusings.files.wordpre...atasheet-1.jpg

If you have questions about this, go on the page-link above and I think I covered most of it. Please add comments, likes, and subscribes and so on.

[Jman27]

so only 30 issues. Peter they need to let you grow up buddy nostalgia been holding you back big time

[Spiderfan001]

so only 30 issues. Peter they need to let you grow up buddy nostalgia been holding you back big time

Quoted for truth.They were pivotal, but still.

[Frontier]

so only 30 issues. Peter they need to let you grow up buddy nostalgia been holding you back big time

Or at least more adaptions need to go like Spec and show him growing from high school to college.

[Mister Mets]

Very interesting. I didn't consider that the second annual didn't have Peter Parker appear in the main story.

so only 30 issues. Peter they need to let you grow up buddy nostalgia been holding you back big time

The most important issues, though. These were all reprinted a lot.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Very interesting. I didn't consider that the second annual didn't have Peter Parker appear in the main story.



The most important issues, though. These were all reprinted a lot.

So was the story after he graduated - ASM#31-33 which everyone says is the best and which Ditko clearly conceived for a grown-up post-teenage Peter.

[Naz]

Well Spiderman was about growth and progression then. I do not know where the stupid idea comes from that has to be young.

[Spiderfan001]

Well Spiderman was about growth and progression then. I do not know where the stupid idea comes from that has to be young.

I read it was because of success of USM they felt he has to be young, but they had no source.It was from the Mr and MRs Spider-man blog IIRC.The one w/ most posts about MJ w/ big essays.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Well Spiderman was about growth and progression then. I do not know where the stupid idea comes from that has to be young.

It comes from OMD and BND.

This specific blog-post by then editor Tom Brevoort is especially the one that codified it.

https://tombrevoort.com/2019/12/25/b...ah-blog-youth/

[exile001]

It never fails to surprise me how long Liz was actually gone.

At graduation there were hints of something more going on with her (though that may have been her feeling she was losing her chance at Peter) and Molten Man had appeared by then, but she just vanishes. My faulty memory always places her returning and the Molten Man revelation a year or two later but it was actually about 8.

[Naz]

[QUOTE][This specific blog-post by then editor Tom Brevoort is especially the one that codified it.
/QUOTE]
Tom Breevort wrote complete nonsense. Spiderman sold from 1968/1969 to 1994/1995 consistently until that foolish clone saga storyline. He seems to forget we do not live in the 1960s and 1970s. I cannot understand how Tom came to the conculsion that spiderman is about youth. As someone who read in the 90s as teenager it was about a guy trying his best to hold his marriege, his jobs and fighting villains.