Issue #63 of The Amazing Spiderman reveals the Vulture, Adrian Toomes, is no longer dead and is vowing revenge on Blackie Drago. Drago had tricked Toomes into revealing the secrets of the Vulture costume which Drago appropriated in a failed attempt to take out Spiderman.

Speaking of Spiderman…our wallcrawler has a little trouble climbing the walls in the rain. This leads him to taking a huge spill and injuring his shoulder…a little problem which he will have to deal with later.

Toomes later snags a second vulture quit which he brings to Drago's prison. Donning the suit, Drago once again becomes Vulture #2 and escapes from prison with Toomes help. Now, if you think that Toomes has done all this to team up with Drago then you are sadly mistaken. He has done it to beat the hell out of Drago so as to prove who is the best Vulture of them all!

Toomes ends up clobbering Drago just as Spiderman enters the fray. While Drago realizes he is no match for the Vulture and announced his retirement, Spiderman challenges the Vulture even though Spiderman's injured shoulder leaves him with only one functioning arm….continued until next issue!

While the narrative (like most Marvel comics of the era) is rather straight forward, the issue is interesting on a number of levels. First, the villains take center stage while Spiderman takes a more peripheral role. This was certainly not done regularly in comics and it most definitely helped Marvel distinguish itself from DC and other comics.

Also, there is a little bit of social commentary as the aged Toomes is constantly taunted by the younger and more arrogant Drago, Yet, the Vulture comes out on top as his blood thirsty nature compensates for his age.

What happens next issue? We'll find out in our next installment.