Peter Parker and Mary Jane's First Kiss

ASM 143. Here is the first panel where Parker and MJ become an item, officially. At least, they become "itemish." It's a bit of a rocky thing: on and off. It really never goes "off," it just gets interrupted, first by the clone of Gwen Stacy and then by Parker's constant disappearances during the dates (because he has to go fight someone as Spiderman). MJ doesn't know his identity, and thinks Peter is disappearing all of the time because or his need to be a news photographer. So something breaks, and he goes to photo it. She resents this because: (a) it isn't normal; and (b) she thinks he goes overboard with it. Fundamentally, she doesn't like being a contingent girlfriend. It is interesting, though, given my speculation as to why the writers killed off Gwen Stacy. It seems that they always wanted the relationship part never to get in the way with the other parts of the story. In short, they always wanted a contingent (convenient) girlfriend. They couldn't do that with Stacy, because she had become as important as the villains in the storyline, and because Stan Lee was no longer writing. Anyway, I already coved that. The point for now is that this is the first kiss between Parker and MJ.