Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 4

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: Annual 4

Release Date: November 1967

Highlights

• Human Torch is running amuck through the city and Spider-Man intervenes to stop him
• Turns out Human Torch was on a film set and Spider-Man cutting in resulted in an offer for a picture deal with the two of them
•  The movie is all a ruse to get Spider-Man and Peter Parker together and defeat them both by making them battle each other
• The villains reveal themselves to be Mysterio and the Wizard
• Wizard's first appearance in Spider-Man
• After the main story, there are a few fun pages chalk full of details on Spider-Mans costume, the different webs he can shoot, his villains and his home
• The last page announces one full year in advance that the next annual will feature Peter's parents - What a hype up

Low Points

• Mysterio and the Wizard send a giant mechanical gorilla after our heroes

Oddities

• Overall a very odd story

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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