While Peter and Mary Jane hashed out their issues, the underrated penciler Ross Andru brought us inside the scene, with gorgeously realized New York locations. Andru based his artwork on extensive photo-reference. Or as one of his co-workers explained in an interview:
"I inked many of Ross Andru's pages myself, and was impressed by the amount of research he did on the locales he depicted." --Jim Mooney
But this was more than just photo-reference for its own sake; the locations were used to support Andru's cinematic storytelling. Look at this page, and the way we zoom close to the lovebirds for a moment, and in the next we're backing away to appreciate their surroundings. Ross Andru gave Peter Parker a strong sense of place, and built Spider-Man's New York into a legitimate supporting character, just as much as Gotham is to Batman.
Andru's carefully considered artwork was praised by many of his peers - take for example what Frank Miller said about this very page, in an interview he gave on the same year of 1977:
"It’s high time someone mentioned the fine job Ross Andru has been doing on SPIDER-MAN. Not since Ditko has there been as conscientious a penciler on the strip, nor one as successful in capturing the mood and style that made the strip the most popular of them all. Comic book fans are rarely as appreciative of honest craftsmanship as of flashy techniques or special effects, so the care and skill Mr. Andru has brought to the strip have gone largely unnoticed.
"Sequences like page fourteen of SPIDER-MAN #165 demonstrate what can be done with a simple conversation. The variations in perspective and design and the attention to backgrounds evident in the scene are heartening to the enthusiast, showing that there is a good deal of thought and research behind the strip." --Frank Miller (1977)
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