GQ India – July 2019

FILM

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EDITED BY NIDHI GUPTA

BITTEN BY THE bug

As Tom Holland swings by in Spider-Man: Far From Home this month, Roy Thomas

traces the origins of Stan Lee’s favourite superhero

In 1971, Roy Thomas

became the first

person besides

Stan Lee to write

Spider-Man when

he penned Amazing

Spider-Man Vol. 1

No. 100 while Lee

was on sabbatical

for a few months to

write a screenplay

with director Alain

Resnais (the film was

never produced).