How cool is this? Andrew Farago found an unusual Spider-Man comic from the 1970s while browsing in San Francisco, a comic with the brilliant title of “Stan Lee presents: A Special Planet Parenthood Issue Of The Amazing Spider-Man”. Our scheming bad guy is planning to tell impressionable teens that they should have wild, unprotected, care-free sex and thus destroy youth and create lots of unwanted babies the Prodigy can scoop off to Intellectia! The dastardly swine!
I remember the AIDS and safe sex awareness mini-comic DC had in several Vertigo lines back in the 90s with Death and John Constantine and a banana giving advice, but I’ve never seen this. Funny, usually we are told comics rot kid’s brains and corrupt impressionable use, yet here we are with a cheesy but well-meaning attempt at health education, comics doing their civic-minded duty. Mind you, to some religious fundamentalists planned parenthood is utterly evil too, just proving you can’t please everyone… (link via Boing Boing)
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