Amazing Spider-Man No. 100 Cover by Romita and Giacoia
It was a time of transition. The Sixties were ending, leaving a very different world than when they’d begun. The Silver Age in comics was giving way to the Bronze. The Seventies would be a decade of experimentation in packaging for new publishers and slow decline for Marvel and DC until they worked out a different model of distribution.
On the Amazing Spider-Man, after No. 100, Stan Lee passed the writing to protégé Roy Thomas while he went away to work on a screenplay. Before he did, he summed up the first hundred issues of ASM as only he could and delivered a last-page cliffhanger worthy of a milestone issue like this one.
And it was all preamble for the following two issues that announced Thomas’ arrival with a splash.
Colour and packaging by me.
As published.
The other two issues in the trilogy.
Original art by John Romita and Frank Giacoia. Scan from Heritage Auctions.
Made production ready.
New colour version.
Re-created trade dress added.
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