TODAY'S TOSS-UP (6/1):

Stan Lee & Jack Kirby's original Fantastic Four or Stan Lee & Steve Ditko's original Amazing Spider-Man?

I'll go with the Lee/Ditko Spider-Man by a fairly wide margin here.

The FF took a while to hit its stride. Lee and Kirby definitely were doing much better work several years into their run.

However, Lee and Ditko hit the ground running on Spider-Man. They had the concept nailed down right from the beginning.

Ted, you're killing me with this one!

The FF is my favorite team and Spider-Man is my favorite solo characters. Both were written by Stan Lee, how can I choose between Kirby and Ditko? Both were tremendously influental, and both were sooo good!

 But...I see a tie-breaking factor in there somewhere.

 I'm going to vote for Lee and Kirby's Fantastic Four!

 Why? Because it introduced the greatest villain in comics history: Doctor Doom!

It's funny,I'd say issue 46 of the FF is where the mag hits its stride. The beginning of the Galactus Trilogy, which is March 1966:

Just the month before, February 1966, this Spider-Man comic hits:

I say Spider-Man CRESTS, right there. In the Silver Age, that ish is the culmination of everything told about Peter Parker and Spider-Man up to that point. As good as the modern stuff is, nothing in the classic period of Spider-Man comes close.

The FF, however, are just BEGINNING their greatest adventures, maybe the greatest adventures in any comic book ever.

Anyway, FF all the way.