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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published May 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Vulture [Adrian Toomes]
Genre superhero
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #139; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #1; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)

14 page Spider-Man story "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Vulture [Adrian Toomes] (Villain; Introduction); J. Jonah Jameson; Flash Thompson; Liz Allen; May Parker
Synopsis The Vulture is so confident in his abilities that he announces his plans to steal a diamond shipment to the police. When Spider-Man hears this he decides to stop the Vulture.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters John Duffy
Reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man Annual, The (Marvel, 1964 series) #7; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #139; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #1; in Spider-Man Classics (Marvel, 1993 series) #3; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996); in Spider-Man Collectible Series (Marvel, 2006 series) #4

10 page Spider-Man story "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Tinkerer [Phineas Mason] (Villain; Introduction); Flash Thompson; Liz Allen; Dr. Cobbwell
Synopsis When Peter Parker discovers some alien modifications to a professor's radio he tracks down a group of aliens with plans to take over the Earth.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Art Simek
Notes One of his helpers later becomes Mysterio; Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man Annual, The (Marvel, 1964 series) #2; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #139; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #1; in Spider-Man Classics (Marvel, 1993 series) #3; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)