I feel like this may just be a creative way for Peter to say “I’m gay”.
Amazing Spider-Man #22
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I love pop-culture references in these older comics. This is from the Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1, in which Peter Parker’s first girlfriend, Betty Brant, and Auny May get caught up in some Spidey shenanigans.
Poor Aunt May. She’s going to have to wait a few decades for DVR.
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Here is a nice example of some good ol’ fashion political incorrectness.
“Rots of ruck” (‘lots of luck’) was an old idiom that mocked Japanese accents.
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
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So I’m relatively new to comics. A good friend adamantly campaigned for me to start reading the Amazing Spider-Man, and he won. I’m chugging along through over 40 years’ worth of continuity now, and since I’m reading it online at Marvel.com, I find myself taking a lot of screen caps of the interesting, funny, or old pop-culture related things I see while I read.
I’d like to share these snapshots with you, your friends, your mom who looks over your shoulder while you’re on the computer, that creepy kid in the lecture hall behind you who watches what you do on the internet during class, and your professor when he inevitably catches you fucking off on the internet during his lecture.
I will be posting these in chronological order of when issues were released. I will keep spoilers either to a minimum or completely exclude them, and the same goes for art-related screen caps. I can’t really make fun of art because I can’t draw for crap.
This first one is from the Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. I was going to name this blog “Original Hard-Luck Kid”, but man that’s long. But yeah, Parker, you got some shit luck, but that’s why we love you.
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