JB, I'd love to hear the story if you can share it. I bought this issue off of a spinner rack at age 6.

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The writer assigned to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN left rather abruptly. Roger Stern, checking vouchers for completed issues, as was part of his job in those days, could not find a title listed for AS-M 206, the one that was supposed to be going to the printers next. He checked around, and found there was to title because there was no issue! Nothing at all had been done!

There was a panicked conference, and I got a call. "Can you draw an issue [17 pages, back then] in three days?" I said I could, if it was tight breakdowns. This was on a Thursday. Roger wrote a plot overnight and the next morning read it to me over the phone. I finished penciling on Sunday night, and mailed the pages to Marvel on Monday morning.*

I often point to this issue when some idiot says my work looks "rushed." In thirty-five years, that complaint has yet to be leveled against 206, a true rush job!

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* Marvel being Marvel, the pages then sat on Shooter's desk for three weeks while they found an inker! The book still came out on time, tho!

(This is particularly comical, since Frank Miller had suggested that instead of tight breakdowns, I do my usual tight pencils, and they skip inking and shoot straight from those. Shooter declared there was "no time" to wait for the week full pencils would have taken me.)