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The Amazing Spider-Man #33: "The Final Chapter"

https://youtu.be/laco8I-4_gE?si=eA6HIK3VGfHCNp9h I remember what an impact ASM #33 had on me as a kid. The overwhelming power of that massive weight of fallen machinery, the effort to lift it, the final success in throwing it off...the rest of the story, with the rescue of the canister, the saving of May Parker's life, the pain of Spider-Man not being credited as a hero, those things struck me very, VERY hard. It would take longer for me to fully understand the significance of things like Betty's horror at Peter's injuries, or Peter's loss of her and his willingness to let her go, of the importance of getting hardnosed with Jonah. It would literally take me until my forties to fully understand that it was all right if only one person like an intelligent doctor or a loving relative appreciates you, even if the whole world doesn't know who you are...or if the whole world thinks you're a pig.