For assorted reasons I'm taking a page from Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's Freak Angels and declaring this a skip week for Reading The Amazing Spider-Man. I'll be back next Tuesday to cover issue number four, which features the first appearance of the Sandman, Betty Brant and Liz Allen. See you then!
Meanwhile, to tide you over, here's Stan Lee himself waxing apocryphal on how he came up with Spider-Man in the first place: