Roger Stern quickly set his run on Amazing Spider-Man aside by featuring villains from other heroes’ rogues galleries. But one story in particular has become a favorite amongst comics fans while also creating a new story archetype for Spider-Man stories that we are still experiencing to this day.

Amazing Spider-Man #229 and #230, also known as “Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut” is a powerhouse story on it’s own, but it left an equally gargantuan impact on the future of Spider-Man stories by establishing a new type of Spider-Man story we are calling “Overcoming Impossible Odds”. And on this week’s show we’ll be talking about those famous Juggernaut issues and some of the most memorable iterations of the themes established in that story.

The stories we’ll be talking about are Amazing Spider-Man #s 229-230’s “Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut”, Amazing Spider-Man #s 269-270’s “Burn, Spider, Burn!”, Amazing Spider-Man #317’s “The Sand and the Fury”, Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2) #s 30-35’s “Coming Home”, and Amazing Spider-Man #s 627-629’s “Something Can Stop the Juggernaut”.

This episode was edited by Rick Coste, with production support from Andy Myers. Our artwork comes handcrafted by artists Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema, and Ray Sumser. Our theme songs were produced by Ryland Bojack and Spider-Maj. Our animated introduction to the show is by Josh Sutton of Panels to Pixels.

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