I have to give Lee and Ditko's initial run on Spider-Man for having such a great batting average when it comes to villains. Sure, the first villain they gave him may have been the Chameleon, introduced as a straightforward master of disguise working for the Soviets, and he isn't exactly a household name. He and the Tinkerer needed to be workshopped some more. But, like. Doc Ock? The Vulture? Sandman? The Lizard? These are beloved regulars of his rogues' gallery! I'm gonna be talking about Green Goblin and the Sinister Six before we know it. Basically all of Spider-Man's top tier villains other than Kingpin and Venom debuted in these first couple years of comics, almost back to back to back.
But now, in issue #8, we get the Living Brain.
It's… a computer with arms. Somebody bumps into its chest-mounted keyboard, it short circuits, and it starts rolling around the halls of Midtown High, swinging wildly the whole time.
There's eight pages of this
They can't all be winners, I guess
