- 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
- Liz Allan; Betty Brant; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]; J. Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Flash Thompson
- 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’s just Peter trying to be brave by impersonating Spider-Man. 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
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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 Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #4 (10 March 1973) -
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 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) which is reprinted-
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 The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007) which is reprinted-
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) -
in The Marvel Comics Library: Spider-Man (Taschen, 2022 series) #1 - 1962–1964 (2021)
- Keywords
- bear; Coney Island; Daily Bugle; gorilla; kidnapping; lion; Midtown High; sculptor's studio; zoo
Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.
Liz Allan's name is misspelled as Liz Allen in this issue.
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (illustrations)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (illustrations)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Includes a letter from Dave Cockrum and Special Announcements Section.