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Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 2

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Quote1 Well well! So teacher's pet is gonna help the nice little doctor with some experiments this week-end, eh? While us other dumbheads waste time having dates and livin' it up! Quote2
-- Flash Thompson

Appearing in "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"Edit

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Aunt May
  • J. Jonah Jameson
  • Flash Thompson
  • Liz Allan
  • Sally Avril
  • Mr. Warren

Villains:

  • Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Peter Parker's High School Classmates
  • Chuck (police officer)
  • Joe (J.J.J.'s assistant)

Locations:

  • New York City
    • Aunt May's House
    • Midtown High School
    • Daily Bugle Building
    • an abandoned silo on a farm in Staten Island
    • The Park Avenue Diamond Exchange

Items:

  • Spider-Man's Web-Shooters
  • Spider-Man's Utility Belt (First appearance)
  • Spider-Man's Belt Camera (First appearance)
  • NOW Magazine (First appearance)
  • Anti-Magnetic Inverter (First appearance)
  • Vulture's Wings (First appearance)

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"Edit

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New York City is being terrorized by a new criminal called the Vulture. He is equipped with artificial wings that allow him to swoop down on his victims, snatch their valuables, and be gone before they know what is happening. Nobody has been able to photograph him, and J. Jonah Jameson needs pictures to illustrate his Vulture feature article for Now magazine. Peter Parker decides to try to photograph the criminal in action. Selling the photographs will help him and his Aunt May make ends meet.

Meanwhile, the Vulture is in his Staten Island hideout (an abandoned silo), making plans to hit the Park Avenue Jewelry Exchange. As he flies out over the city, he is spotted by Spider-Man, who is equipped with a miniature camera once owned by his late Uncle Ben. Spider-Man manages to take some photographs of the Vulture, but the Vulture sees him, attacks him from behind, knocks him out, and dumps him into a water tank. After breaking out of the water tank, Spider-Man heads home, where he adds some improvements to his devices and develops his photographs.

The next day, Peter Parker arrives at J. Jonah Jameson's office with pictures of the Vulture. The publisher is very impressed and pays him well. Then Peter heads for the Park Avenue Diamond Exchange, which the Vulture tauntingly announced to the public as the site of his next robbery. While everybody expects the Vulture to strike from above, he strikes from beneath a manhole cover, seizes a case of diamonds, and flees through the New York City sewer system. Spider-Man uses his Spider-Sense to track him down, and wins their battle with an anti-magnetic inverter, a device he built to counteract the magnetic power that the Vulture uses for flight. The Vulture is left for the police, and Peter Parker has photographs of the Vulture's capture, which he sells to J. Jonah Jameson for a large sum of money. Peter and Aunt May are able to make ends meet.

Appearing in "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"Edit

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Flash Thompson
  • Elizabeth Allan
  • Sally Avril
  • Mr. Warren

Villains:

  • Tinkerer (Phineas Mason) (First appearance)
  • Quentin Beck (Behind the scenes); One of the Tinkerer's Gang.
  • The Tinkerer's Gang (First appearance); Disguised as Aliens

Other Characters:

  • Professor Cobbwell
  • Peter Parker's High School Classmates

Locations:

  • New York City
    • Midtown High School

Items:

  • Spider-Man's Web-Shooters

Vehicles:

  • The Tinkerer's "Space Ship"

Synopsis for "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"Edit

Peter Parker is busy in the Midtown High School science lab when Mr. Warren introduces him to Professor Cobbwell. The professor needs an assistant for the weekend, and Peter Parker comes highly recommended. The next day, Peter runs an errand to the Tinkerer Repair Shop, where Professor Cobbwell has left a radio to be fixed. But in the basement of the shop, a group of what are apparently extraterrestrials have been placing spy devices into the radios of certain customers. The spy devices evidently enable them to estimate the earth's strengths and weaknesses in secrecy before they strike.

Spider-Man's Spider Sense detects an odd kind of radiation emanating from the shop basement. Later, this same kind of radiation is detected from the radio brought back to Professor Cobbwell's laboratory. His curiosity aroused, Spider-Man secretly returns to the Tinkerer's shop and sneaks into the basement, where he sees the "aliens" and the Tinkerer and deduces their plans. Unfortunately, he is spotted, and in the ensuing battle he is stunned with one of the Tinkerer's electrical weapons. He is placed into a "resisto-glass" enclosure, from which the Tinkerer and his gang believe he cannot escape. They plan to kill him by withdrawing all the air from the enclosure.

Spider-Man thwarts their plan by shooting web fluid out of the holes through which his air supply is being withdrawn. He hits the button on their control panel that opens his glass prison. A misdirected weapon starts a fire, and the Tinkerer and the "aliens" all flee. They appear to leave the earth in a large spacecraft, while all that remains of the Tinkerer is a face mask in Peter Parker's hands.

NotesEdit

  • The Vulture is Spider-Man's first super-powered foe.
  • J. Jonah Jameson is revealed in the first story as the publisher of NOW Magazine.
  • In the first story, Peter Parker modifies his utility belt to hold a camera and extra cartridges of web fluid.
  • The first story is the first time that Peter Parker sells pictures to J. Jonah Jameson.
  • It was revealed in Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man #51 that:
    • The "aliens" in this story are simply out-of-work movie stuntmen and extras hired by the Tinkerer; they wore alien costumes as a ruse in case they are seen.
    • The "spaceship" is an ordinary aircraft disguised as an alien spaceship.
  • This issue features the first diagram detailing how Spider-Man's web-shooters operate.
  • This issue is reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man # 1 (Pocket Books).
  • This issue is reprinted in Marvel Tales #139


TriviaEdit

  • The Cover Logo was redesigned by Sol Brodsky and Artie Simek by repositioning lettering from the logo of issue #1 and redrawing the webbing.


See AlsoEdit



 

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Well well! So teacher's pet is gonna help the nice little doctor with some experiments this week-end, eh? While us other dumbheads waste time having dates and livin' it up! +
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