Rootin' around in the basement while the furnace guy did his routine maintenance thing, I came across a whole pile of Gil Kane original pencil layouts. It reminded me that some of my favorite Spidey stories were the stand-alone tales that appeared in books like Marvel Team-Up. Many of Lee/Ditko's early tales were similarly self contained. Reboots wouldn't be half as necessary if more epics had a begining, a middle and an end contained within the span of 17 pages.

Here's a neat cover sketch for one with Spidey, DD and umm .... Stegron?

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