The Amazing Spider-Man #12 [British]

(May 1964)

Unmasked by Dr. Octopus! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (credited)

Inks

Steve Ditko (credited)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

Job Number

[X-639]

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Take one of the most powerful super-villains of all time...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Dr. Octopus [Otto Octavius]; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant; Aunt May Parker; Flash Thompson; Liz Allan

Synopsis

Peter has the 24 hour flu when Doc Ock captures Betty Brant in hopes of luring Spider-Man into battle. Ock beats the under the weather web-head and unmasks him, but everyone thinks it is just Peter trying to be brave by impersonating Spidey. Once he has recovered, Spider-Man battles through the wild animals Ock has released from the zoo to take on old six-arms himself.

Reprints

• in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #3 (November 1966)
• in Demonen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1969 series) #1/1969 ([august] 1969)
• in Marvelserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1967 series) #37 (1970)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #136
• in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #7 (10 octobre 1970) [reworked]
• in Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #14 ([Juli] 1974)
• in The Amazing Spider-Man (Pocket Books, 1977 series) #2 (81444) (February 1978)
• in Une Aventure de l'Araignée (Editions Lug, 1977 series) #9 (2e trimestre 1980)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #11 (9 de julio de 1980)
• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #149 (March 1983)
which is reprinted
• in L'Uomo Ragno Classic (Edizioni Star Comics, 1991 series) #4 (Aprile 1991) [La storia è tratta dalla ristampa di "Marvel Tales" (come si riconosce dalla ri-colorazione).]
• in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #13 (December 1986) [excerpt]
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #5 ([October] 1988)
• in Spider-Man Classic (Planeta DeAgostini, 1993 series) #7 (Febrero 1994)
• in Spider-Man Classics (Marvel, 1993 series) #13 (April 1994)
• in The Essential Spider-Man (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996) [black and white]
• in Spider-Man Komplett (Panini Deutschland, 1999 series) #v1964#[5] (August 1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #2 (July 2002)
• in Spiderman: Stan Lee y Steve Ditko (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002 series) #1 (Diciembre 2002)
• in Biblioteca Marvel: Spiderman (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (Noviembre 2003)
• in Target Spider-Man / Doctor Octopus: Greatest Battles (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004)
• in Spider-Man Special: Black and Blue and Read All Over (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (November 2006)
• in Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007)
• in Marvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: Poder y Responsabilidad (Panini España, 2014 series) (Abril 2014)
• in Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 - Great Power ([October] 2014)

Keywords

bear; Coney Island; Daily Bugle; gorilla; kidnapping; lion; Midtown High; sculptor's studio; zoo

Indexer Notes

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.

Liz Allan's name is misspelled as Liz Allen in this issue.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Spider's Web / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Steve Ditko (illustrations)

Inks

Steve Ditko (illustrations)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Includes a letter from Dave Cockrum and Special Announcements Section.