The Amazing Spider-Man #21

Torch and Spidey fight over a girl (well not exactly)...and the Beetle too.   
 
"Am I destined to go through life as a professional 'fall guy'? Why must i be a costumed, super-powered sad sack?" - Spider-Man

One thing i like about this issue is the character contrast; Johnny Storm vs Peter Parker in the eyes of Johnny's (current) girlfriend Dorris and also Spiderman vs Torch.  Same people, yes, and what's even cooler is how Johnny weighs out Pete and Spidey. The 2 guys aren't friends yet.

Also as Spiderman is still young, it shows his inexperience (which isn't really something unique to this one issue) as well as the villain's effectiveness. He's fighting the Beetle, the TORCH's enemy, at the time at least, and as some may agree a pretty lame villain, despite his intelligence and awesome armour, which is practical if not flashy. The Beetle, to me, feels like a guy just put into the stories just because the good guys need someone to fight. He has no personal ties to the character as Dr Doom or Venom or even Scorpion. So he has beef with the Torch, but not as much as Doom did with Reed and therefore the entire FF and don't have too many run ins to be popular enough. Seriously, if someone else were to sub in and the beetle was to just disappear, would anyone really care? STILL what if the creators decided to put in more Beetle than Doom and expand on his character? I still think a dictator who owned a whole country still owns an inventor with a mech suit
 
The Drama
The premise is set in New York of course, but back in older, simpler times, when there was no Mary Jane (to begin with) and Peter Parker was still in High School, and trying to work things out with Betty Brant from Jonah's desk, which means yes, he does have that job at the Bugle already, and the art looked more like an Archie comic, (but better, way better, i do NOT want to criticize/condemn Steve Ditko, just saying all art looked like that in the '60s). Just 20 issues + 1 annual after the title began, Spiderman is still a little inexperienced on his hero work, and he and the Torch are at the beginning of their famous string of occasional team ups. 
 
Dorris Evans is in the middle of her date with Johnny Storm (Stan Lee says this better, "As a typical teen-age couple walk through the streets of New York") when Torch ditches her to go look for the Beetle. So yes, a typical Archie comic with guys and girls and guys getting jealous over girls. But with superheroes! The plot of course is very fast and looks unorganized at that point, but as a whole, it was PERFECT. Sometimes i read a comic, there's enough action, but there's no relevance. But this story's well balanced and fun. 
 
So yeah Dorris thinks the Torch is immature to take off like that, STRANDING her, and rather put on a show for fans. (OH YEAH, The citizens of New York see Spiderman and, as he is less known of these early days, people scream in fear at the bug boy. Human Torch shows up and,..let me quote spidey "BOY! If that doesn't take the cake! I appear in the city and people run for the hills! but THAT flamin' freak shows up and they knock themselves out fallin' all over him!") She meets Peter Parker the next day when she's shopping and has an accident with some kids running through. Parker's polite, helps her up, gets her bags for her even though he doesn't even know her. He regards him as a gentleman in her mind. But it just so happens she dropped her purse too, and that gives Peter and Dorris a second chance meeting, (where Johnny would catch them and would in turn start a whole mess) 
 
She takes him up for a coke. A coke....whoever would invite a person to their house for a coke? well i guess people would do that, especially on a hot day, but, i guess it was a 60s thing. So they talk about how Peter lives nearby with her aunt. (Aunt May appears in the comic and she's as old as ever. I wonder how she stayed around so long, i mean, she's close to Peter and Peter loves her, i hope for Peter's sake she stays well but seriously, i don't get why people get upset over old people who die. They're old, come on, you don't expect them to live FOREVER. So Dorris listens to him and thinks highly of him, using terms such as "soft-spoken", "cultured" and "i wish Johnny were more like Peter Parker". Now Johnny comes in and he's like "who was that?" Dorris compares Peter to Johnny and Johnny's ready to flame. He goes over in his FF costume, and makes a douchebag of himself by calling out Peter Parker to stay away from his girl. Unfortunately for Peter, Betty, who's right next to him takes this seriously and is heartbroken that Peter would be after another girl. Peter Parker is pretty pissed off and is wishing he could punch Storm on the face, but he wouldn't, he's Peter Parker. Also, he couldn't because they're in public and he's in his secret identity. Johnny can't start a fight either cos he's in his PUBLIC identity. 
 
The Action
So the Beetle's been around this whole time, stalking, observing, and now he's waiting for the Torch to show up at Dorris'. Parker in the meantime decides that since Betty hates him now, he's going to take it out by trying to impress the Torch's girl, this time in Spidey guise. The Beetle don't want his plans ruined and they get into a fight, crash in to Dorris' apartment, leave shreds of webbing and the Beetle kidnaps the girl. Now, during this fight outside Dorrie's apartment, Spiderman's first fight with Beetle, he realizes that the Beetle's armour is pretty strong, too strong to punch through. He can also fly for real, and Spider-Man was not ready for that. Now after a hundred and one run ins with the various Goblins and other bad guys, Spider-man would eventually learn to expect more. After that Spiderman manages to follow the Beetle using his spider sense and the Torch, finding traces of webbing in Dorrie's wrecked house, is on Spidey's tail. I guess they wanted that fight so bad, that even though Spidey claims to have tried to tell torch, he never really says it. Torch wouldn't have listened anyway, he's too full of himself, and well, Dorrie IS missing. so they keep fighting till they find the Beetle and Human torch is like oh, Beetle's got the girl, and Spiderman says "that's what i tried to tell you". So they're both fighting Beetle, and Spidey jumps in to save Johnny from getting crushed once, and they bring down the bug together. 
 
Now here's the funny part. Dorris, who was so impressed by Peter Parker earlier, blames Spidey for having helped Beetle on the whole kidnapping thing. Then JOHNNY, who HATES Parker, defends Spider Man saying there was no proof of his involvement, and the fact that Spider Man helped take Beetle down does stick. Spider man takes in the info and reviews everything that had happened. "Jameson probably hates me more than EVER now...Betty is angry at me...is this my fate? Am I destined to go through life as a professional "fall guy"? Why must i be a costumed, super-powered sad sack? Especially when the Torch, who's no better than i am in any respect, gets all the glory, the praise,..and even the girl!" 
 
So Peter Parker's a charming, smart boy, not too popular among the jock bullies in High School. Spider-Man's hated all around, by almost every man in New York, maybe thanks to their stupid fear of spiders, (i never got the deal with arachnophobia) and even his own Aunt May. But the jocks like a man of action, ironically. The Torch is a celebrity and acts like a bit of a dick and is treated with utmost respect. Now, maybe if Spider-Man brought out his identity into public, he MIGHT have had the same fame and respect the Torch gets both as Spider-Man and as Parker, except from Aunt May, who already loves him, and he'd probably lose his job at the bugle. But that's Spider-Man, he takes the weight of the world on his shoulders and plays it the hard way. Why? i have no idea. I think he deserved to get his name out pre-Civil War.