- Script
- Marv Wolfman (credited); Stan Lee (credited) (script, page 36)
- Pencils
- Keith Pollard (breakdowns); Jim Mooney (finished art)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis W.)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited as J. Costanza)
- Job Number
- LF598
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (origin); Aunt May Parker; Anna May Watson; The Burglar (From Amazing Fantasy #15, villain, death); Uncle Ben Parker (cameo flashback); Mysterio (cameo, flashback); Harold R. Grimsby; Dutch Mallone; Paul; Michael
- Synopsis
- Spider-Man has been zapped with a chemical depressant by Mysterio and lost his powers. Even worse, Aunt May has been murdered, leaving Peter alone in the world. As Spider-Man begins to piece things together, he comes to the realization that the killer he is hunting for is the same burglar who killed his Uncle Ben so many years ago. Powerless yet determined and learning that the burglar has merely captured rather than killed Aunt May, Spider-Man has a final confrontation with the man who changed his life forever.
- Reprints
- in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #5/1981 (1981)
- in Edderkoppen (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #5/1981 ([mai] 1981) [minus pages 1, 6, 29]
- in Die Spinne (Condor, 1980 series) #47 (1982)
which is reprinted- in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #154 (5 octobre 1982) [18 premières pages (moins 2)/First 18 pages (minus 2)], #155 (5 novembre 1982)
- in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #196 (25 de enero de 1984), #197 (1 de febrero de 1984)
- in Spider-Man: Return of the Burglar (Marvel, 2012 series) [premiere edition] (2012)
Story in five chapters (plus epilogue): Chapter One: not numbered or separately titled. Chapter Two: Less Spider Than Man! Chapter Three: Let the Burglar Beware! Chapter Four: Murder Most Foul! Chapter Five: The Final Confrontation! Epilogue: Resolutions! The first page of this issue reveals that Stan Lee wrote one of the story pages and invites readers to guess which one it is, it was the last page "Epilogue" (this information taken from the letters page in Amazing Spider-Man #206).