NFTA: The Amazing Spider-Man #14

I have no jokes for this one. It's the first appearance of what many consider to be Spider-Man's most iconic villain, and the one that has caused the webslinger to suffer the most... Other than the time Doc Ock killed Spidey, but that's besides the point, this is the first appearance of Green Goblin, in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #14. by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.

Originally, the Green Goblin was supposed to be a weird sorta ancient creature that escaped and started attacking Spider-Man, but then it was changed to just a crazy guy in a costume.

There is so much shit going on in this cover, Spidey is clinging to the top of a cave, while Green Goblin is about to touch Spidey's balls with his amazing flaming hand, and the Enforcers are cheering him on. You see that blue box with red borders? You see what it says? THE HULK is guest-starring in this issue, OH BOY! My 2nd favorite Marvel character! Watch out! He's about to punch the reader!

Funny little tidbit of information that you don't really need to know but it'd be nice if you did, the person that came up with the idea of Bruce Banner turning into the Hulk due to ANGER was none other than Steve Ditko. It'd be pretty lame if the super awesome green monster only appeared during the night.

This is the GROTESQUE adventure of the Green Goblin. It begins with him talking to the Enforcers about killing Spider-Man. He then talks to a balding movie producer about making the Spider-Man movie, and he's even willing to talk the real Spider-Man into signing onto the project.

At Midtown High, we see Peter Parker, Liz Allan, Flash Thompson and 20 other guys at the usual scene of Flash insulting Peter and shit. But then Peter changes into his Spider-Man gear to investigate some green person flying through the air with a broom. This is the first meeting between Spider-Man & Green Goblin. Spider-Man learns about the movie and he goes all the way to this producer's house to talk about it.

Sure, Spidey agrees to do the movie with one condition... Well, multiple conditions, no interviews, no publicity (???) and no romance with any famous Hollywood actresses, which is something no teenager has said ever.

At the Bugle, Peter goes to flirt with Betty Brant for like the 20th time until he leaves and tells everyone that he'll be going to Hollywood to film a major motion picture. No acting agency, no manager, no nothing. In fact, this film crew sucks shit, there's only 3 people in the crew not counting actors, the director, cameraman, and some lady whom I presume is the writer.

Well, The Enforcers, Goblin and Spider-Man rehearse their lines, and they're ready to shoot. It's 3 murder attempts later that Spider-Man finally realizes that they're not filming about his triumph, but about his death. 

Back at the Bugle, Betty is worried because WHAT IF PETER IS DATING A FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS??? 

Whatever, The Enforcers and Green Goblin are still trying to kill Spider-Man (judging by the fact that there's over 900 issues after this one, they failed), but then Spidey realizes one more thing... Of all caves they could've chosen, they had to pick the one where the incredible Hulk was hiding! Great, now Spider-Man HAS to worry about another person that's trying to murder him. 

Well, Spidey hides from the Hulk like the pussy he is and takes the Enforcers to the police. The cameras did not pick up ANY of what happened inside the cave. Spidey gets paid just about enough to move back to New York and the producer decides to instead make the movie about the Hulk... Wonder if that worked out? I mean, if Ang Lee and Louis Leterrier could do it, so can this guy, right?

The story ends, and Green Goblin has remained anonymous. NO ONE KNOWS WHO HE IS.

Just your average regular-ass Spider-Man story from the early 60's. Steve's art was pretty good and the story was action packed. Though, Goblin didn't do much in this issue, but we'll see him again, probably... 8/10.