- Script
- Gerry Conway
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Steve Mitchell; Frank Giacoia (flashback art); John Romita (flashback art)
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- 764Z
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; X-Men [Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Hank McCoy [Beast]]; Harry Osborn; Professor Hans Jorgenson; Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (flashback; cameo); Lizard [Dr. Curt Connors] (flashback; cameo); Dr. Michael Morbius (fourth appearance; villain)
- Synopsis
- Spider-Man has been injected with the deadly Morbius serum and he and the X-Men have to quickly take down the Living Vampire to save old Webhead's life.
- Reprints
Frank Giacoia and John Romita inks are from the flashback art.
- Script
- Gerry Conway
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Letters
- Jean Simek
- Job Number
- 1121Z
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Alicia Masters [also as Alicia Reiss in flashback]; Jacob Reiss (flashback; death); Mrs. Reiss (flashback); Mad Thinker (villain); Puppet Master [Phillip Masters] (villain); android
- Synopsis
- The Puppet Master admits to Spider-Man and the Thing that he caused the accident that blinded his stepdaughter Alicia Masters (Thing's girlfriend). This accident was also the source of the Puppet Master's ability to create and control puppets from radioactive clay. Hoping to cure Alicia, they all head for the old hidden lab, but the Puppet Master has already turned the lab over to the Mad Thinker, and the heroes are trapped. The lab is eventually destroyed in an explosion, the villains assumed dead.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- origin; Pennsylvania
This story retells the origins of both the Puppet Master and Alicia Masters.
Filler page used to allow the 2 page spread in the next story to line up correctly.
Filler page to make the next issue's 2 page spread line up correctly.
Filler page to make the 2 page spread in the next issue to line up correctly.