User blog comment:N8brooklyn/What was your first super-hero comic?/@comment-24812000-20200120034441

A TPB of Spider-Man: New Ways to Die.

I discovered this wiki a year prior because that last issue, ASM #573, was the latest issue of ASM on the wiki; only the synopsis existed and in my ignorance I thought it was supposed to be the last issue of Spider-Man ever. Glad I was wrong but I also thought that of course Osborn would be the final Spider-Man villain ever. I strangely remember it being on Columbus Day because I wasn't in school even though it was a school day. I also remember being intimidated by Osborn on the cover, standing menacingly on his glider, screaming mask in one hand, pumpkin bomb in another. Idc what you think about Romita's art back then this is still one of my favorite covers ever.

Anyway, when I was in a store a year later I flipped through the TPB and recognized the cover. I had guidebooks of the comics but never had read a comic itself, but I knew I wanted this one. Last year I recommended it to my partner who wanted to try Spider-Man comics, and she loved it as well.