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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published June 1970
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man; Kingpin; Vanessa Fisk; Schemer
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks John Romita
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #66; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #4 (December 2000); in Uomo Ragno, L' [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #86

19 page Spider-Man story "The Secret of the Schemer!"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man; GUESTS: Vanessa Fisk; Captain Stacy; Gwen Stacy; VILLAINS: Kingpin; Schemer [Richard Fisk; identity revealed]
Synopsis Peter pulls a double switch to keep Captain Stacy and Gwendy from identifying him as Spider-Man; Spidey tracks down the Schemer but they both fall into the Kingpin's trap; The ensuing battle comes to an abrupt end when the Schemer is revealed to be Richard Fisk, the Kingpin's long lost son.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils John Romita (layouts); John Buscema (pencils)
Inks Jim Mooney
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #66; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #4 (December 2000); in Uomo Ragno, L' [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #86