Issue Description

Everyone's favorite neighborhood Spider-Man engages the Fantastic Four's most powerful enemy, Doctor Doom!

Plot Summary

The issue begins with Dr. Doom overhearing a news broadcast by J. Jonah Jameson wherein he claims once again Spider-Man is a menace and offers a $1000 reward anyone able to disclose the true identity of Spider-Man to him. Dr. Doom having recently been defeated by the Fantastic Four believes Spider-Man would make an excellent ally in getting revenge against them and so he sends a message to Spider-Man through his spider senses by using a spider and some electronic equipment. Peter Parker meanwhile is becoming more and more frustrated by the abuse and bullying he receives from other students at school.

Peter hearing Dr. Doom's message manages to track down the signal and discovers Dr. Doom is the source of it and soon after the two begin to fight. Just as Spider-Man gets the upper hand on Dr. Doom it is revealed that it is a robot clone of Dr. Doom that Spider-Man is fighting and the real Dr. Doom arrives and begins to battle with Spider-Man. Spider-Man to avoid Doom's attacks flees by jumping out of the window and Doom blows up the building and so Spider-Man has to deal with the fire and cannot go after Dr. Doom and also in an attempt to frame Spider-Man.

The next day Peter takes his pictures of the burnt building to try to sell them to J. Jonah Jameson but Jameson tells Peter that his reasons for constantly attacking Spider-Man is because it sells papers. While Jameson goes off on Spider-Man, his secretary, Betty begins to defend him. Peter never really paid attention to her and finds that he is attracted to her. Meanwhile, Flash Thompson wanting to play a trick on Peter, dressies up as Spider-Man. Dr. Doom having built a Spider-Man detector which is able to detect Spider-Man's powers sets out to discover the true identity of Spider-Man.

As Peter is walking down the street Doom manages to detect him on his tracker but it just so happens that Flash is nearby wearing his Spider-Man costume. Doom mistaking Flash for the true Spider-Man easily knocks out Flash and captures him. Dr. Doom then hacks into the television broadcasts announcing that he has captured Spider-Man and Peter sees the broadcast just as his classmates tell him that Flash is missing and so sets out to rescue Flash.

Discovering Dr. Doom's new hideout the two do battle once again as Doom uses several weapons against Spider-Man but is unable to defeat him. As the Fantastic Four arrive Dr. Doom knowing the odds are against him flees as Spider-Man remembering that he as left Aunt May alone in the dark also leaves as The Fantastic Four set Flash free who proceeds to boast at school how it was he who fought and battled the evil Dr. Doom.

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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