The finest single panel of comics work ever produced – and I will fight you with a ready quip and feats of airborne acrobatics over this – appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man issue 42, released on 1 November 1966. And it doesn’t even feature the webbed wonder in costume.
With a point of view for the reader from just over the right shoulder of Spider-Man’s nerdy alter ego Peter Parker, the panel – the final image in the issue – introduces our hero’s long-running love interest Mary Jane Watson, in a kinetic blur of yellow and black shock wave lines and the immortal words: “Face it, Tiger … you just hit the jackpot!”
