Just Spidey doing a little mid-air repair work on a plummeting space capsule. No big deal.

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko gave Peter Parker his own series in March 1963 — and 53 years later, we decided to talk about it.

This is the 32nd episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we talk about Amazing Spider-Man No. 1, featuring the glorious image of Spider-Man attempting to cash a check, the real motives behind J. Jonah Jameson’s smear campaign and Pete’s poorly devised plan to join the Fantastic Four.

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