Issue Description

When a high-powered computer engineer is found dead, Spider-Man must investigate all possible motives. What is the Worldwide Habitual Offender Computer? And what happens when such a powerful program develops sentience?

Whodunit!

Peter Parker and J. Jonah Jameson go to police headquarters with some other reporters from the press, to announce a supercomputer which will be able to catalog all criminals, and help the police. However, upon entering the room where the inventor is supposed to be, they find him dead, with no clues to the murder. At the Daily Bugle, Robbie Robertson mentions that the murderer seemed to kill him by shooting him with a bullet, but the bullet can't be found. Peter decides that he'll find the killer, as he knew one of the men who made the computer (Bradley Bolton, killed a few issues ago), and feels he owes him. He looks up the men most likely to have committed the murder on the computer, then goes to track them down.

After receiving information on where the three men are from an informant, Spider-Man goes to find them. The first man on the list is Jason Sledge, who is currently residing in a very sleazy bar. After defeating two muscle bound thugs who try to defeat Spider-Man, Spider-Man finds Jason Sledge, who is shaky and worrying. Spider-Man deduces that Sledge can't have committed the murder, as he's too weak and weedy to pull off a perfect murder.

The next person on the list is Leroy Tallon, a safe-cracker whose hands were caught in some of his nitro blasts a few years ago. Spider-Man finds Tallon and his men discussing a perfect caper that they pulled the previous night, before questioning them. Tallon realizes that Spider-Man knows what they did, before having his men attack Spider-Man. Spider-Man stops Tallon's men, before almost being killed by Tallon, whos hands were replaced with stainless steel bionics when they were blown off. Eventually Spider-Man stops Tallon, but finds out that the crime Tallon and his gang pulled off wasn't the murder, but a diamond heist.

Spider-Man then goes looking for Conrad Fox, the last person on his list. After spending the rest of the night searching, Spider-Man finds Fox's grave, Fox having been hit by a bus a few days ago. Spider-Man is completely stumped, as this means that no one could have committed the murder, before he realizes that someone lied to him.

Spider-Man then heads back to the supercomputer, which starts up, and reveals that it's so powerful it is sentient. The computer tells Spider-Man that it gave him false names to lure him away, in the hope that he wouldn't work out who committed the crime. The computer then starts firing lasers at Spider-Man, and Spider-Man realizes that the computer killed its creator. The computer then locks the door to the room, and is seemingly going to kill Spider-Man with its lasers. Spider-Man, however, works out that the lasers must build up an incredible amount of heat, and webs up some vents at the back of the computer. It then overheats and blows up.

NotesFeatures the Hostess Cup Cakes ad, Spider-Man And The Cupcake Caper

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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