Re: Was Spider-Man an Angry Young Man?

gbostock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> Another problem that Lee had was that he couldn't write female
> characters to save his life. Betty Brant was a horribly written
> character (as was Susan Storm) and anybody that would have had to deal
> with a romantic interest in her would have been driven mad. The best
> thing that ever happened to Peter was breaking up with Betty Brant.
> Having said that, Gwen Stacy was poorly written too and that was why
> they had to kill her off. They tried to make Mary Jane into what Gwen
> should have been from the start, but even that didn't work too well. A
> guy who has to deal with women like that in his life is going to have
> issues.

:-)

Actually, Lee's writing of women is something I'll be addressing in a
future video.  Take, for example, the seriously weird confrontation
between Spidey and Princess Python in ASM #... 23?  24?, in which
Spidey refuses to hit a lady and must simply ask her to please behave
herself and come along, stammering.

I agree that Betty gets on the nerves sometimes. :-)

--Tom