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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published July 1966
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Just a Guy Named Joe!"

Characters Spider-Man; Joe Smith
Genre superhero
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #177; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #16; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (July 1997); in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #1/1978

20 page Spider-Man story "Just a Guy Named Joe!"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man; GUESTS: J. Jonah Jameson; Ned Leeds; Harry Osborn; Norman Osborn; Flash Thompson; Gwen Stacy; Aunt May; VILLAIN: Joe Smith (1st); CAMEO: Mary Jane Watson
Synopsis Average joe, Joe Smith, fails at being a fighter and tries his hand at acting; Dressed up as a robotic monster, he is zapped with electricity and chemicals which causes him to go on a violent spree against those who doubted his abilities; Meanwhile, Norman Osborn puts a price on Spidey's head and our hero is plagued with goons trying to bump him off; Pete narrowly misses meeting Mary Jane.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Ditko (Plot); Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Art Simek
Reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man Annual, The (Marvel, 1964 series) #7; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #177; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #16; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (July 1997)