It was already happening

September is Cosmic Zap month here at Doctor Xaos Comics Madness, and today I’m talking about its remarkably early onset.

Superhuman endurance

No glamor.

It’s 1966, in The Amazing Spider-Man #33, co-plotted by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, drawn by Ditko. it’s the third of a three-issue story called “If This Be My Destiny …!” which is so iconic as to have its own detailed Wikipedia page.