Marvel Comics Group · The Amazing Spider-Man #105 · February 1972 · 20¢ · 32 pages
Grade: VF- 7.5
Cover by John Romita Sr.
“The Spider-Slayer!” — written by Stan Lee, penciled by Gil Kane. Spencer Smythe returns with a new Spider-Slayer robot, deploying it against Peter Parker with the explicit goal of eliminating Spider-Man once and for all. Peter is caught between the mechanical predator and the complications of his personal life, with J. Jonah Jameson's fingerprints all over the scheme. Kane's layouts give the action sequences real kinetic weight — the man understood how to move Spider-Man through space in ways that read as physically convincing even when they're completely impossible.
Issue #105 lands in the middle of the Lee-era wind-down on the title — Stan would hand scripting duties to Gerry Conway with #111. Gil Kane had taken over interior penciling duties from Romita Sr. by this point, giving the book a looser, more dynamic feel than the Romita years while Romita stayed on covers. That split — Romita on the cover, Kane inside — is one of the defining visual signatures of early Bronze Age Amazing Spider-Man.
Condition VF- 7.5 — .
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Marvel Comics Group · The Amazing Spider-Man #105 · February 1972 · 20¢ · 32 pages
Grade: VF- 7.5
Cover by John Romita Sr.
“The Spider-Slayer!” — written by Stan Lee, penciled by Gil Kane. Spencer Smythe returns with a new Spider-Slayer robot, deploying it against Peter Parker with the explicit goal of eliminating Spider-Man once and for all. Peter is caught between the mechanical predator and the complications of his personal life, with J. Jonah Jameson's fingerprints all over the scheme. Kane's layouts give the action sequences real kinetic weight — the man understood how to move Spider-Man through space in ways that read as physically convincing even when they're completely impossible.
Issue #105 lands in the middle of the Lee-era wind-down on the title — Stan would hand scripting duties to Gerry Conway with #111. Gil Kane had taken over interior penciling duties from Romita Sr. by this point, giving the book a looser, more dynamic feel than the Romita years while Romita stayed on covers. That split — Romita on the cover, Kane inside — is one of the defining visual signatures of early Bronze Age Amazing Spider-Man.
Condition VF- 7.5 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
