Denro and I were at the Albany Comic Con today. We were flipping through a portfolio of Spider-Man comic strip original art belonging to our pal, Joe Sinnott’s son Mark, who told us the run of syndicated reprints is coming to an end. On my phone I opened the Washington Post app and brought up today’s reprint.
At that moment Denro landed on a piece of original art and said, “Hey, I think this is it!” Indeed it was.
Most of the originals in the portfolio were autographed by Stan Lee, but not this one, because Stan had passed away the previous November. Losing Stan knocked the wind out of Joe’s sails, and King Features deciding to let the Spider-Man strip die with Stan didn’t help, leading to Joe having some assistance when completing the final batch of strips.