"Stories that make you go Awww!" - the Amazing Spider-Man Annual #39

[dahlia_moon]

I thought scans from this annual were already posted here - I remember seeing previews somewhere but they don't seem to be up here.

Anyway, the sure-fire way to get me to buy a Spider-Man comic on the spot is to have Uncle Ben in it.

Included below the cut are two pages out of the 40-or-something pages of the annual from this year. I don't know if there are other earlier stories that showed what life would be like if Spider-Man didn't exist, but I liked the random earthquake-time-hopping aspect of it (and Uncle Ben's and Peter's interactions are ♥).

Comments

[robotdinosaur]

I mostly enjoyed this story too. I'm not sure about any other wonderful life-esqe stories, but I pretty sure there have been stories/scenes where Peter indicated with Uncle Ben in some form or another after his demise.

The only thing that confused me was if Peter didn't exist, how come Gwen was still dead?

[dahlia_moon]

That's a good question. I don't think we're shown Gwen proper in the first alternative universe Peter ends up in (when he gets thrown out of Horizon labs), so I'm choosing to think she's alive. I mean, there's really nothing to tell me otherwise, I don't think? There's just one panel of Gwen later near the end when things starting getting back to normal, but that's more toward when Peter stops the earthquakes.

[chocochuy]

Notgonnacrynotgonnacrynotgonnacry....

* Burst into tears *

Oh, Uncle Ben! Warming up hearts since the 60s!