(22 September 1973)
Marvel UK,
1973 Series
- Price
- 0.05 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Weekly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management London Ltd.
- Brand
- ?
- Barcode
- ?
- Editing
- Peter L. Skingley
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Reprints
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from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #38 [Regular Edition] (July 1966)
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Just a Guy Named Joe!
Spider-Man / comic story / 20 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our mildly terrific tale opens in a crowded neighborhood gym, where we find a not-overly-bright habitue named Joe Smith indulging himself in one of his ever-present day-dreams--
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; J. Jonah Jameson; Ned Leeds; Harry Osborn; Norman Osborn; Flash Thompson; Gwen Stacy; Aunt May Parker; Joe Smith (villain, introduction); Mary Jane Watson
- Synopsis
- Average Joe, Joe Smith, fails at being a fighter and tries his hand at acting. Dressed up as a robotic monster, he is zapped with electricity and chemicals which causes him to go on a violent spree against those who doubted his abilities. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn puts a price on Spidey's head and our hero is plagued with goons trying to bump him off. Pete narrowly misses meeting Mary Jane.
- Reprints
- from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #38 (July 1966)
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Indexer Notes
Steve Ditko's last Spider-Man story. Ditko reportedly turned in his last art for Marvel the last week of November 1965.
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