Amazing Spider-Man #45 (February 1967) – “Spidey Smashes Out” – Stan Lee/John Romita
This one starts with Spider-Man getting used to his sprained arm by stopping a truck hijacking, but he realizes it won’t be so easy to take the Lizard down. Speaking of the Lizard, he breaks into Connors’s office to get the Lizard Formula, but freaks out because he can’t read all the scientific gibberish in the notebooks. (Lizard isn’t aware that he actually is Curt Connors; he thinks Connors is a completely different being. He should hang out with the Hulk so they can talk about their “separate” alter egos.) Peter goes to college and claims he sprained his arm riding his motorbike (which everyone believes) and later goes looking for the Lizard. He finds
him at the trainyard, hijacking a car full of reptiles heading to the Philadelphia Zoo. After a long (and spectacular) fight, Spidey manages to lure the Lizard into a refrigerator car where his reptile metabolism is slowed by the cold. Spidey wraps him in a web cocoon and takes him back to Connors’s lab to administer the antidote. It works and Dr. Connors is reunited with Martha and Billy again. Despite all that, we get another downbeat ending with MJ going out with Harry and Anna Watson coming over to drop off some soup and seeing Peter’s sprained arm.
This is a good issue with some really cool fight scenes at the trainyard. Every Lizard story follows the same pattern, with Connors turning into the Lizard and Spidey fighting him for a while before giving him the antidote that turns him back, but I guess there’s not much else you can do with the character unless you want him to stay the Lizard permanently. We get an interlude during the fight showing Anna and MJ coming over to see Peter and finding him gone. Anna is surprised, but MJ probably knows exactly where Peter is … or can make an educated guess.
Amazing Spider-Man #46 (March 1967) – “The Sinister Shocker” – Stan Lee/John Romita
This one starts with Spider-Man running into a new villain called the Shocker. No, not that kind of shocker; this guy has vibration generators in his costume that he can use to shoot vibratory blasts, add power to his punches, and deflect the strength of Spider-Man’s blows. Shocker actually knocks Spidey around and escapes with some loot. Spidey does manage to get some photos and Peter gets a ride to the Daily Bugle from Harry Osborn, who asks if he wants to move into an apartment in
Manhattan with him, one that Harry’s dad is paying for. Peter likes the idea, but worries about leaving Aunt May alone. He sells Jameson the pix and Foswell decides to change into his Patch outfit and tail Peter to see how he gets all the exclusive Spidey photos. We get a brief diversion to see Shocker’s origin (although we don’t actually learn his name yet) and then Peter goes to pick up Aunt May at the train station. She mentions Anna’s offer to live with her (which she’s apparently been stewing about for a while) and Peter tells her it’s fine with him since he can now go live with Harry. They tell MJ and Anna the news and Peter and MJ head to the Silver 
Spoon to celebrate and let Harry know he’s about to have a new roommate. Peter takes off to go look for the Shocker and when he’s changing to Spider-Man, Patch sees him and figures that Peter is Spidey. Luckily, Peter’s spider-sense warns him and he fakes Patch out by changing his voice and sending a web dummy swinging away. Patch buys it and Peter’s secret is safe … at least for now. Spidey finds the Shocker and defeats him by webbing his thumbs so he can’t activate his vibro-shock units. The next day, he and Aunt May say their farewells and he moves in with Harry, but still doesn’t feel all that happy.
The melancholy endings are getting a bit old now (Peter even wonders if being Spider-Man has somehow robbed him of the capacity to be happy),
but his life overall actually is getting better. It’s good to see him out on his own now and Aunt May moving in with Anna so she’ll have someone to look after her. I’m not sure if Aunt May sells the house after this or not; Peter says she should so she’ll have some money, but later she moves back in so maybe she’s just renting it out after this … or maybe she sells it and buys it back again, but that wouldn’t make much sense. Real estate markets being the way they have for the last few decades, she’d end up paying way more than she got for the place and where would she get that kind of money? Shocker is a pretty good new villain, who will be around for a long time. He’s shown to be pretty powerful here (and in subsequent early 
appearances), unlike the hero-phobic loser he’ll become years later. It’s interesting that we see his origin here but don’t learn his civilian name. Peter faking out Patch/Foswell with a web dummy may seem like a bit of a stretch, but I guess it could work. The sprained arm thing is pretty obvious, but the web dummy Spider-Man is shown swinging off without a sling on his arm while Peter still has his on, so maybe that helped convince Foswell. He won’t be around much longer anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. There’s a panel where MJ says she loves a man in uniform, supposedly referring to Flash, but since she knows Pete is Spider-Man maybe she was being a bit of a smart-ass just to see Peter’s reaction.