Issue Description

Spencer Smyth has learned the secret identity of Peter Parker!

At the end of the previous issue, Professor Spencer Smythe used a video scanner to see what Spider-Man looks like without his mask. Spider-Man's spider sense suddenly starts tingling, and he realizes he's being spied on. He quickly puts his mask back on, hoping that no one was watching in the brief second that his mask was off, and covers the scanner with webbing. Spider-Man is about to smash it, when he sees that it has "Property of the New York Police Department" on its base. He then swings off, but notices more and more scanners on most rooftops. Spider-Man then thinks of a solution for what he can do in the case that his face was seen. Spider-Man then goes to Doctor Curt Connors, and makes a face mask using Connors' equipment.

Meanwhile, in J. Jonah Jameson's office, he keeps futilely trying to control the Spider Slayer he bought from Smythe. Unfortunately for Jonah, the controller blows up, and Robbie Robertson comes in a minute later. Although Robbie is suspicious of the explosion and smoke, he tells Jonah about how the police placed video scanners around New York to stop crime, but the master control unit was stolen.

Meanwhile, at Smythe's hideout, he has invited four gang leaders over, to show them how he can use the scanners to his advantage. He demonstrates that using the scanners, he can see where police are on patrol, and where to go to avoid them. Smythe proposes that they rob a bank, with him telling the gang leaders where to go to avoid the police via radio. Smythe then locates Spider-Man using the scanners, to find him seemingly unmasked. However, Spider-Man removes his "face" to reveal the face mask he made earlier, throwing suspicion off it being what he really looks like. The gang leaders are worried about Spider-Man knowing about the scanners, but Smythe shows them an even bigger version of the Spider Slayer he beat Spider-Man with before.

After tricking Smythe and the gang leaders, Spider-Man goes to the Daily Bugle, where he finds a large rally. At first he thinks it's another rally against the Bugle like in the last issue, before noticing that J. Jonah Jameson is the leader of the rally. It turns out that the rally is against the video scanners being put on the roofs, as the rally believes in privacy. Spider-Man swings down to offer them his moral support, but Jameson immediately starts threatening him.

Spider-Man then returns home, as he has a date with Gwen Stacy. Upon getting inside, he finds Harry Osborn, who is miserable since Mary Jane doesn't take him seriously. At that point Mary Jane comes inside, and starts flirting with Peter, who quickly leaves for his date with Gwen. When Peter meets up with her, Gwen suggests they visit Flash Thompson. Upon meeting up with him though, Flash acts distant, and moody, so they leave.

After the date, Peter changes to Spider-Man, and is about to go back to Flash, and question him. However, as he swings around a corner, he finds himself caught in a gigantic web, and is soon being coated in ethyl chloride (a gas which can weaken spiders). The Spider Slayer then comes down from further up the web, and Spencer Smythe comes out of it, telling Spider-Man that he hasn't got a chance of defeating him.

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

After the success of Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) a few months later the same creative team came back to start an ongoing series focusing on the character the two of them created.

The book's run continued until issue number 441 (Nov. 1998) when Marvel relaunched the title as Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 with a new number 1 in January 1999. After issue #30 (#471) Marvel used a dual numbering system, yet the indicia still stated The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2. On the title's 40th anniversary the numbering was reverted to go from issue 58 to issue 500 (Dec. 2003) as The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1.

This volume ends with #700 and is picked up by the Marvel Now! revolution volume Superior Spider-Man.

Collected EditionsMarvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 (#1-10)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 (#11-19)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 (#20-30)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 4 (#31-40)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5 (#41-50)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6 (#51-61)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 7 (#62-67)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 8 (#68-77)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 9 (#78-87)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 10 (#88-99)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 11 (#100-109)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 12 (#110-120)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 13 (#121-131)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 14 (#132-142)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 15 (#143-155)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 16 (#156-168 and Annual #10)Spider-Man vs. Black Cat (#194-195, 204-205, 226-227.)Spider-Man: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut (#224-230)Birth of Venom (#252-259, #298-300)The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 1 (#252-258)The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 2 (#259-263)Kraven's Last Hunt (#293-294)The Amazing Spider-Man: Life in the Mad Dog Ward (#295)Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie & Todd McFarlane (#296-329)Sinister Six (#334-339)Powerless (#341-343)Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Round Robin (#351-360)Round Robin (#353-358)Maximum Carnage (#378-380)

Collection of sequentially numbered trades, Amazing Spider-Man.

Spider-Man: Mark of the Tarantula (#231-237)Coming Home (#471-476)Revelations (#477-480)Until the Stars Turn Cold (#481-486)Life and Death of Spiders (#487-491)Unintended Consequences (#492-497)Happy Birthday (#498-502)The Book of Ezekiel (#503-508)Sins Past (#509-514)Skin Deep (#515-518)New Avengers (#519-524)

Individual trades with their own volumes because of sub-titles.

The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Great Power (#1-17)Punisher vs. the Marvel Universe (#161-162)The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past (#259-272)The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Return of the Sinister Six (#334-350)Spider-Man: The Gathering of Five (#440-441)The Other (#525-528)The Road to Civil War (#529-531)Civil War (#532-538)Back in Black (#539-543)One More Day (#544-545)Brand New Day Vol 1 (#546-551)Brand New Day Vol 2 (#552-558)Brand New Day Vol 3 (#559-564)Kraven's First Hunt (#565-567)New Ways to Die (#568-573)Crime and Punisher (#574-577)Death and Dating (#578-583)Election Day (#584-588)24/7 (#589-594)American Son (#595-599)Died in Your Arms Tonight (#600-601)Red-Headed Stranger (#602-605)Return of The Black Cat (#606-611)The Gauntlet, Vol 1 (#612-616)The Gauntlet, Vol 2 (#617-621)The Gauntlet, Vol 3 (#622-625)The Gauntlet, Vol 4 (#626-629)The Gauntlet, Vol 5 (#630-633)The Grim Hunt (#634-637)One Moment in Time (#638-641)Origin of the Species (#642-647)Big Time (#648-651)Matters of Life and Death (#652-657)The Fantastic Spider-Man (#658-662)Big Time Ultimate Collection (#648-662)The Return of Anti-Venom (#663-665)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 2 (#663-676)Spider-Island (#666-673)Flying Blind (#674-677)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 3 (#677-687 and 679.1)Trouble on the Horizon (#678-681, #679.1)Ends of the Earth (#682-687)No Turning Back (#688-691)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 4 (#688-697)Danger Zone (#692-697)Dying Wish (#698-700)Amazing Spider-Man: Peter Parker The One And Only (#700.1-700.5)

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