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| | LRB Jonathan Lethem : The Amazing . . . |
 | | Even in the 1960s, The Amazing Spider-Man wasn't the most interesting of the Marvel titles (that would have been The Fantastic Four), just the most archetypally non-archetypal, and the one with which the company as a whole was most identified. |
 | | All they had yet was a short sequence showing the actor's transformation from normal man to gigantic green monster, his rapid destruction of a house, then a simple card that read: 'Hulk. |
 | | Jack Kirby, the greatest inventor in the history of comics, subsequently showed himself to be rather icy and remote without Lee's goofy, humanising touch, and a writer of execrable dialogue: Keith needed his Mick. |
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