That’s not to diminish, in any way, what Lee and Ditko did, but to acknowledge that they were working in a genre that was still forming and yet to solidify into a particular form. While they introduced a huge and varied supporting cast for the web-crawler, characterisation and plotting would evolve significantly in the years that followed. While Stan Lee and Steve Ditko codified a lot of super hero conventions, those early issues of The Amazing Spider-Man are very much the product of another time. Many of those familiar with Spider-Man weren’t even alive at that point. However, those initial issues were written during the sixties. However, that initial run set down all the tropes and rules and conventions that we expect from a Spider-Man story, no matter in what medium or from what writer. Mary Jane Watson wouldn’t be introduced until after Ditko left, and Gwen Stacy would die under writer Gerry Conway. Sure, there would be influential runs that followed, and they would contain big events. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko wrote thirty-eight issues of The Amazing Spider-Man together, and those thirty-eight issues pretty much laid a blueprint for the iconic web-crawling super hero. Untold Tales of Spider-Man has an interesting premise. That old-fashioned Spider-Man still packs a punch after all this time…
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