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I recently acquired The Amazing Spider-Man King-Size Special #6 (1969), which reprints the main tale from Spidey's first Annual published in 1964. Being the proud owner of said issue, I dug it out to compare the reprint with the original and to play spot the difference. (Nothing major, just minor amendments to footnotes.) The Annual contains several pin-ups (the reprint doesn't), as does the second Annual from the following year, 1965. Then I had one of my customary brainwaves for which I'm so justly famous: why not combine both sets of pin-ups and show them to all you cavortin' Crivvies?
No sooner said than done (that's a lie - took me ages), so paste your pulsatin' peepers 'pon Spidey's most famous foes! At least they were back in the '60s - he may have some even more famous ones by now. Sherbet Dabs all round to all those who can name them. (That's another lie - I'm incorrigible.)
Incidentally, Facsimile Editions of the first Annual and ASM #1 are due out in a month or thereabouts, so clear a space on your shelves for them. My copies are already ordered and paid for. Can't wait.
