- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Art Simek
- Job Number:
- X-171
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Tinkerer [Phineas Mason] (Villain; Introduction); Flash Thompson; Liz Allen; Dr. Cobbwell
- Synopsis:
- When Peter Parker discovers some alien modifications to a professor's radio he tracks down a group of aliens with plans to take over the Earth.
- Reprinted:
- in Amazing Spider-Man Annual, The (Marvel, 1964 series) #2
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #139
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #1
- in Spider-Man Classics (Marvel, 1993 series) #3
- in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)
One of his helpers later becomes Mysterio; Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.