AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #72

The Shocker’s on a crime spree and Spider-Man better be up to the task to stop him. Plus, Peter’s relationship with Gwen Stacy gets further strained as the stress from his Spider-Man life seeps over to his personal life. This issue opens with Shocker breaking into Captain George Stacy’s house, looking for the priceless clay tablet which Spider-Man gave to Captain Stacy. Shocker manages to find the tablet, although when he tries to sell the tablet to a pawnshop owner, the owner tells Shocker that no one will buy it, since they’ll all be worried that Spider-Man will take it from them. Peter Parker is on a bus when he overhears the news about Shocker.…