Amazing Spider-Man #50: Spider-Man No More

1: Iconography
2: Responsibility and Power 
3: Spider-Man Goes Mad
4: Peter Parker beats people up for a living
5: Peter Parker has no sense of proportion
6: Peter Parker has a co-dependent relationship with his foster-mother
7: Peter Parker projects normal social problems onto his spider-man costume.
8: JJJ’s accusations appear to trigger a nervous breakdown
9: Peter Parker has repressed the most traumatic memory of his life
10: Crystal Clarity
11: Unreliable narrators 
12: Death of the Author

“Spider-Man No More” is Stan Lee’s riposte to “The Final Chapter”, and arguably to the first thirty three issues of Amazing Spider-Man….It is an act of patricidal erasure. Steve Ditko’s Spider-man no longer exists. There is only Stan’s version. 

Amazing Spider-Man #50: Extended Commentary

Amazing Spider-Man #50: Annotations

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