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Cover: John Romita & Frank Giacoia

The Amazing Spider-Man #106

Name: The Amazing Spider-Man #106
Brand: Marvel
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Mar 1972 · Marvel · 0.20 USD

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“Squash! Goes The Spider!”

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Amazing Spider-Man #106 is the middle chapter of a three-part Bronze Age story arc that spotlights one of the title's most persistent themes: Peter Parker's terror of having his secret identity exposed. The issue delivers the first appearance of the Spider-Slayer Mark IV — the first Smythe robot designed to be piloted from inside a cockpit rather than operated remotely — escalating the mechanical menace into something far more personal and dangerous. The issue also plants early seeds of Flash Thompson's troubled post-Vietnam homecoming, a subplot that would ripple through subsequent issues and reflect the era's broader cultural anxieties about returning veterans. The cover composition proved so enduring that it was directly homaged on Amazing Spider-Man #538 (2007), during the Civil War storyline, nearly thirty-five years later.

writer Stan Lee · artist John Romita · inker Frank Giacoia · letterer Sam Rosen · cover John Romita, Frank Giacoia

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History

Issue #106 was part of Stan Lee's return to the title after a four-month sabbatical in mid-1971, during which Roy Thomas and Gil Kane had steered the book through some of its most experimental stories. With #105, Lee came back and launched directly into a Spider-Slayer three-parter; John Romita Sr. rejoined him on pencils for #106 and #107, with Frank Giacoia on inks, representing a deliberate swing back toward the classic Lee-Romita visual register. Roy Thomas served as editor-in-chief at Marvel during this period, though Lee retained his editorial credit on the individual issue. The story was published with a March 1972 cover date but actually reached newsstands in December 1971, the same month as Marvel Team-Up #1 — the launch of Spider-Man's second concurrent monthly title.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of the Spider-Slayer Mark IV, the fourth robot in Spencer Smythe's line of Spider-Man-hunting machines and the first to be piloted by Smythe himself from an internal cockpit.
Part 2 of a three-part story arc titled 'Squash! Goes the Spider!' spanning Amazing Spider-Man #105–#107; written by Stan Lee, penciled by John Romita Sr., inked by Frank Giacoia, lettered by Sam Rosen.
Cover dated March 1972 (released December 1971); the same month saw the debut of Marvel Team-Up #1, giving Spider-Man two ongoing monthly titles for the first time.
The central plot device — Smythe using a stolen police security camera to photograph Peter Parker unmasking — directly drives the secret-identity jeopardy; Peter counters by fabricating a synthetic face-mask using Curt Connors' laboratory equipment.
Cameo appearances by nearly the entire supporting cast of the era: Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, J. Jonah Jameson, Joe Robertson, and Dr. Curt Connors.
Flash Thompson's erratic, volatile behavior upon returning from Vietnam is introduced in this issue as a subplot, foreshadowing a more extended examination in #108–#109.
The story was reprinted in Marvel Tales #85 (November 1977) and has been collected in the Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection Vol. 7: The Goblin's Last Stand (2017) and The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 4 (2019).
The cover composition — depicting Smythe and associates menacing Spider-Man — was formally homaged on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #538 (2007), a Civil War tie-in by Ron Garney, with Smythe's role replaced by the heroes hunting Spider-Man.