8 Worst Things Doc Ock Has Ever Done To Spider-Man
6. He Nearly Blew Up NYC (In His First Appearance!)
Marvel Comics
The original Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Spider-Man stories are some of the greatest comics the web-slinger has ever appeared in, and one of the best issues (unsurprisingly) came from Doc Ock's introduction.
In his initial introduction, not only does Doctor Octopus take an entire hospital hostage (taking on the moniker he'd been insulted with while experimenting with his four mechanical arms), he swats Spider-Man aside with ease, even picking up and slapping him across the face in the ultimate act of humiliation.
The offence proves so great that Spidey then considers hanging up his tights for good, leaving it to the Human Torch to convince him to keep going. In the meantime, Ock took control of a nuclear facility, leaving the wall-crawler to regather his strength, and defeat him with a swift punch to the jaw.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
