Interestingly, the two stories with the particularly unnecessary splash pages ("Man in the Mummy Case" and "Martians Are Among Us") were created before the Spider-Man story, according to their job numbers. Which suggests to me that Lee found he was two pages short when he put the issue together -- possibly due to the new format stemming from the Spidey tale -- and had Ditko draw up two filler pages to pad out the issue. As "The Bell-Ringer" already had a three-quarter splash with some of the story running across the bottom, adding filler to the other two stories made the most sense. That's all idle conjecture on my part, but you have to admit that those two splash pages look pretty out-of-place relative to the rest of the issue, and the layout of the "Martians" one looks unusually awkward for Ditko. I wonder if anyone's done any actual research into those pages.
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these two stories with "unnecessary splash pages" which i completely disagree with but to each their own, were not "fillers" they were the actual book, if you took the time to see that Amazing Fantasy was previously amazing ADULT fantasy you can tell these extra "fillers" are actually the essential part of what amazing fantasy consisted of before 15
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