It was in August 1962 when we got our first look at Aunt May’s pancakes, specifically in Amazing Fantasy #15. Steve Ditko and Stan Lee created the foundations of the mythology of Spider-Man and what they surely did not expect is that that morning dish would become an icon of the old woman.
And pancakes became so popular over time that even in Untold Tales of Spider-Man Annual ’96 The recipe that May uses to create such a delicious appetizer was revealed. A very common mixture in American homes consisting of mixing beaten eggs, butter, flour and other ingredients, but now a transcendental doubt has arisen.
And Christos Gage, the screenwriter of the series Daredevil, as well as Marvel, DC and Marvel’s Spider-Man, has revealed a detail hidden for decades in that initial issue of the wall-crawler. As stated in Bleeding Coolthe creative visited the United States Library of Congress to check out the original art for Amazing Fantasy #15 and found an annotation by Stan Lee in the cartoon in which the pancakes first appear.
“Steve, change to pancakes,” The Man pointed out, which has raised a huge doubt in Gage that he wanted to share with the veteran screenwriter of the web-slinger, Dan Slott. “It is our great responsibility to determine what Steve Ditko originally drew BEFORE pancakes. Pancakes? Cupcakes? Objectivist cakes? This is a mystery on the level of The Search movies! I think I’ve done my part in unraveling the mystery, and now it’s your turn to brave the traps and assassins to solve it. Excelsior!” says Gage.
The truth is that it took the support of Sara Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art, Stamps and Photographs Division to discover what the hell Lee wrote. The text has been almost completely lost. As time goes by and it seems that finding out what existed before the famous pancakes is going to be really complicated.
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