Issue Description

Spider-Man waits for Black Cat to strike at the Hendricks Museum of Musical History. What loot has the Cat set her eyes on now? And when she and Spider-Man battle it out, will Black Cat bare her fangs? Peter discovers that new girlfriend Dawn Starr has ulterior motives.

...In Love and War!

At the start of this issue, Spider-Man is in a museum, guarding a wax recording of a love song. He's assuming that the Black Cat is planning to steal it, as she's recently been stealing artefacts associated with love. However, the Black Cat doesn't turn up, so Spider-Man leaves the museum and heads to Empire State University. There he meets Dawn Starr, and the two agree to have a date in a few days, before Peter has to go to classes.

At the end of the day, Peter changes back to Spider-Man, and goes looking for the Black Cat again. He assumes that she's stealing the artefacts out of a devotion to her father. Spider-Man heads to the museum where he was last night, and just as he predicted, the Black Cat is there, stealing the wax recording. Spider-Man tries to stop her, but the Black Cat's mysterious control over luck gives her the chance to escape before Spider-Man can stop her. The next day, Spider-Man's in the Daily Globe where he hears about a collector of romantic artefacts, called Lazlo Bellflower. Realising that it's a potential place for the Black Cat to strike, Spider-Man manages to get himself an assignment to photograph the collection later that evening.

To kill the time until he meets Bellflower, Peter decides to go to Empire State University to grade some papers. Upon noticing a woman in his office, he changes to Spider-Man, only to find it to be Dawn Starr trying to steal some exams. As Spider-Man he manages to frighten her not to do it again, and after she's gone, he notices the irony: The Black Cat is a thief who claims to like him, whilst Dawn Starr claims to like him and turns out to be a thief.

Meanwhile, the Black Cat, in her civilian identity of Felicia Hardy, is meeting with Lazlo Bellflower, and offers him the three artefacts she's already stolen in return for the only known love letter written to Paris by Helen of Troy. Obviously Felicia doesn't intend to pay for it, and so changes to the Black Cat and steals the letter from Bellflower. Whilst his is happening, Peter Parker is outside trying to get inside, but is being told that something came up so that he can't meet him. Peter works out that the Black Cat must be inside, and so changes to Spider-Man.

Spider-Man manages to get over the large fence surrounding Bellflower's house and inside, where the Black Cat is just finishing her robbery. The Black Cat is reluctant to hurt Spider-Man, saying that he'll understand everything soon, but manages to get away when Spider-Man has to avoid a falling chandelier. Luckily, Spider-Man manages to put a spider-tracer on the Black Cat before she leaves, and follows her to her hideout. When he gets there, the Black Cat reveals that she's used the stolen artefacts to make something of a shrine to Spider-Man, since she loves him. Spider-Man realises that whilst the Black Cat does love him, she also needs some psychiatric help, and convinces the Cat to do so.

NotesFeatures the Hostess Fruit Pies ad, "Thor Meets The Ricochet Monster!"Mark Gruenwald was assistant editor on this issue.This issue was reprinted in Spider-Man VS. The Black Cat #1Diamond (Direct) and square block price variants exist for this issue.

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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