Amazing Spider-Man 33

"I've failed! Just now -- when it counted the most -- I've failed!"

- Spider-Man

"The Final Chapter" is the title to the thirty-third issue of the first Amazing Spider-Man ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story was written & edited by Stan Lee with artwork by Steve Ditko, who also co-plotted the story. It was lettered by Artie Simek. This issue shipped with a February, 1966 cover date and carries a cover price of .12 cents per copy.

Appearances

 * Spider-Man, Peter Parker


 * Betty Brant
 * Curt Connors
 * Frederick Foswell
 * J. Jonah Jameson
 * May Parker


 * Doctor Octopus, Otto Octavius
 * Master Planner


 * Ben Parker
 * Bennett Brant
 * Charlie


 * Master Planner's gang
 * New York City Police Department


 * Altered humans
 * Humans


 * New York
 * New York City
 * Manhattan
 * Daily Bugle
 * Queens
 * Forest Hills
 * Forest Hills Hospital


 * Hudson River
 * Underwater lair


 * Spider-Man's belt camera
 * Spider-Man's utility belt
 * Utility belt
 * ISO-36


 * Police cars
 * Van


 * Superhuman agility
 * Superhuman durability
 * Superhuman equilibrium
 * Superhuman stamina
 * Superhuman strength


 * Doctor
 * Hospital
 * Laboratory
 * Nurse
 * Orderly
 * Police officers
 * Scientific experimentation
 * Smoking

Notes & Trivia

 * The tagline to this issue is "The Final Chapter".


 * Spider-Man reflects on the death of his uncle, Ben Parker. Ben Parker was killed by an unidentified burglar in Amazing Fantasy #15.


 * Peter Parker compares J. Jonah Jameson to Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. A famous pastiche of the character is Scrooge McDuck, as seen in animated films and shorts produced by Walt Disney Productions.


 * The scene of Peter Parker's panic attack as he is being crushed by debris is paid homage to in the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming.


 * May Parker's illness originated when Peter Parker gave her a blood transfusion using his own blood. This took place back in Amazing Spider-Man #10.


 * This is the first, and to date, only known appearance of Charlie, who is a police officer.


 * Curt Connors appears in human form only in this issue. He does not appear as The Lizard.

Reprints
The story from this issue is reprinted in the following volumes:
 * 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time 3
 * 40 Years of the Amazing Spider-Man DVD-ROM
 * Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection 2
 * Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus 1
 * Essential Spider-Man 2
 * Marvel Masterworks 16
 * Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man 4
 * Marvel Tales Vol 2 26
 * Marvel Tales Vol 2 172