Issue(s): Amazing Spider-Man #50
Published Date: Jul 67
Title: "Spider-Man no more!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
John Romita Sr. - Penciler
Mike Esposito - Inker

Review/plot:
This is one of those issues where Peter quits being Spider-Man due to all the pressures in his civiliian life...

...and then remembers Uncle Ben and decides he has to keep being Spider-Man after all.

Actually, it is the first such issue, and it's pretty good even if it all happens a bit too neatly.

While Spidey is out of commission, someone decides to unite all the mobs in New York City in order to create an empire of crime... the Kingpin.

Fredrick Foswell, AKA Patch, AKA the Big Man, thinking back to his days when tried to unite all the mobs, gets jealous and tries to muscle his way into the Kingpin's position, but it's a sad failure.

Poor Peter never has time for the ladies.

    

Quality Rating: B-

Historical Significance Rating: 8 - first Kingpin

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: Marvel Tales #190