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Appearing in "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"

Featured Characters:

• Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Meet chronology)

Supporting Characters:

• Aunt May (See chronology)

Antagonists:

• Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (First appearance) (See chronology)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Earth
  • United States of America
    • New York
      • New York Metropolis
        • Manhattan
          • Jameson Publications (Showtime appearance)
          • Radio Network
          • Little Italia (First advent)
            • 240 Centre Street (First advent)
          • Park Avenue
            • Park Avenue Diamond Exchange (Start advent)
          • New York City Sewer System
        • Queens
          • Forest Hills
            • Midtown High School
            • Aunt May's House
        • Staten Island (Get-go advent)
          • Abandoned farm silo (First appearance)
            • Vulture's hideout (First advent)

Items:

• Vulture'south Wings (Showtime appearance)
• Numerous copies of Now Mag (First advent)
• Spider-Man's Belt Camera (Get-go appearance)
• Spider-Man's Adjust
• Web-Shooters
• Spider-Man's Utility Belt (Kickoff appearance)
• Anti-Magnetic Inverter (Start appearance)

Synopsis for "Duel to the Decease with the Vulture!"

New York Metropolis is being terrorized by a new criminal chosen the Vulture. He is equipped with artificial wings that let him to swoop down on his victims, snatch their valuables, and wing abroad before they know what is happening. Nobody has been able to photo him, and J. Jonah Jameson needs pictures to illustrate his Vulture characteristic article for NOW Magazine. Peter Parker decides to try to photograph the criminal in activity. Selling the photographs will help him and his Aunt May make ends run across.

Meanwhile, the Vulture is in an abandoned silo, his Staten Island hideout, making plans to hit the Park Avenue Jewelry Exchange. As he flies out over the city, he is spotted by Spider-Man, who is equipped with a miniature camera once endemic by his late Uncle Ben. Spider-Man manages to take some photographs of the Vulture, but the Vulture sees him, attacks him from backside, knocks him out, and dumps him into a water belfry. After breaking out of the water tower, Spider-Man heads dwelling, where he adds some improvements to his devices and develops his photographs.

The adjacent twenty-four hour period, Peter Parker arrives at J. Jonah Jameson's part with pictures of the Vulture. The publisher is very impressed and pays him well. The side by side mean solar day Peter heads for the Park Avenue Diamond Exchange, which the Vulture tauntingly announced to the public as the site of his adjacent robbery. While everybody expects the Vulture to strike from above, he strikes from beneath a manhole cover, seizes a case of diamonds, and flees through the New York City sewer system. Spider-Man uses his Spider-Sense to track him downward and wins their battle with an anti-magnetic inverter, a device he built to counteract the magnetic power that the Vulture uses for flight. The Vulture is left for the police, and Peter Parker has photographs of the Vulture's capture, which he sells to J. Jonah Jameson for a big sum of money. Peter and Aunt May are able to brand ends meet.

Appearing in "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"

Featured Characters:

• Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (See chronology)

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

• Professor Cobbwell (First appearance)
• Peter Parker's Loftier School Classmates

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Us
  • New York State
    • New York City
      • Queens
        • Woods Hills
          • Midtown High School
      • The Tinkerer'south Garage

Items:

• Spider-Man'south Adapt
• Spider-Human being's Web-Shooters

Vehicles:

• The Tinkerer's "Space Transport"

Synopsis for "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"

Peter Parker is busy in the Midtown High Schoolhouse scientific discipline lab when Mr. Warren introduces him to Professor Cobbwell. The professor needs an assistant for the weekend, and Peter Parker comes highly recommended. The adjacent twenty-four hour period, Peter runs an errand to the Tinkerer Repair Shop, where Professor Cobbwell has left a radio to be stock-still. But in the basement of the shop, a group of what are obviously extraterrestrials have been placing spy devices into the radios of certain customers. The spy devices evidently enable them to approximate the globe's strengths and weaknesses in secrecy before they strike.

Spider-Man's Spider Sense detects an odd kind of radiations emanating from the store basement. Later, this same kind of radiation is detected from the radio brought dorsum to Professor Cobbwell's laboratory. His marvel aroused, Spider-Man secretly returns to the Tinkerer's shop and sneaks into the basement, where he sees the "aliens" and the Tinkerer and deduces their plans. Unfortunately, he is spotted, and, in the ensuing battle, he is stunned by i of the Tinkerer'south electrical weapons. He is placed into a "resisto-glass" enclosure, from which the Tinkerer and his gang believe he cannot escape. They plan to kill him by withdrawing all the air from the enclosure.

Spider-Human being thwarts their programme past shooting spider web fluid out of the holes through which his air supply is beingness withdrawn. He hits the button on their control panel that opens his glass prison. A misdirected weapon starts a burn, and the Tinkerer and the "aliens" all abscond. They appear to leave the earth in a big spacecraft, while all that remains of the Tinkerer is a confront mask in Peter Parker's hands.

Notes

Continuity Notes

Duel to the Death With the Vulture!

• This story is expanded upon in Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. three) #ane.2–Astonishing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #one.iii.

• A number of details in this story are considered topical references per the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616. These details are: The blazon of photographic camera that Peter uses, the technology used that allows the Vulture to fly, likewise as the Magnetic Inverter.

• Although unnamed here, the secretarial assistant at the Daily Bugle edifice is Eleonore Brant. She is first identified in Untold Tales of Spider-Human being #12, that story also explains what happens to her post-obit this story.

• In this story, Peter asks Jameson to keep his name a secret, and to credit his photos to a staff lensman. This was an effort to forestall his classmates from making a connexion between Peter and Spider-Man. Somewhen, he revealed that he was taking photos for the Daily Bugle during a course presentation, equally seen in Untold Tales of Spider-Man #11.

The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!

• A number of details in this story are considered topical references per the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616. These details are: Any references to the Tinkerer specifically fixing radios. Amazing Spider-Human being (Vol. 3) #1.iv states that Peter was sent to become Professor Cobbwell's antique radio repaired. Too should the toll of the Tinkerer'south repair jobs (10 cents) exist considered topical.

• The "aliens" in this story are revealed to be criminals disguise and the entire thing was a deception to throw off anyone who might discover their operations. This fact was explained in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #51. That same result reveals that one of the crooks is Quentin Beck, who becomes Mysterio in Amazing Spider-Man #13.

• Peter's office time job with Professor Cobbwell is shortlived, the details of how he loses this job are revealed in Astonishing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #1.4–Amazing Spider-Homo (Vol. iii) #1.v.

Chronology Notes

Events occur backside the scenes in this story that affect the chronologies of the following characters:

Spider-Homo:

• Duel to the Death With the Vulture!
  •  Page one-Page 3, Console 3 - Peter learns about the advantage for a photo of the Vulture, decides to use his powers to photograph the villain.
  •  Page 3, Console iv-Page v, Console ane - Spider-Man tracks downwards the Vulture.
  •  Folio 5, Console 2-Folio vii, Console ii - Spider-Man defeated by the Vulture, just comes up with a ways of neutralizing his powers, takes his photograph to the Daily Bugle.
  •  Page 8, Panel 3 - Peter shows J. Jonah Jameson his photos of the Vulture.
  •  Page 8, Panel 4-5 - Jameson agrees to purchase the photos.
  •  Folio 8, Panel 6-Folio 14 - Spider-Human being defeats the Vulture.
• The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!

Aunt May:

• Duel to the Death With the Vulture!

J. Jonah Jameson:

• Duel to the Death With the Vulture!

Vulture:

• Duel to the Expiry With the Vulture!

Publication Notes

• This issue features the beginning diagram detailing how Spider-Homo's spider web-shooters operate.

Trivia

• This issue is technically the first in comic book history to feature the traditional comic corner box. It was Steve Ditko'south idea of featuring a corner box spotlighting Spider-Man. Stan Lee liked it so much he had Jack Kirby do the same for the cover of Fantastic Four #14. Nevertheless, in the month of release of these two books, Fantastic Four came out earlier, for which it usually gets the credit of being the comic issue that introduced the corner box.^[i]
• The comprehend logo was redesigned by Sol Brodsky and Artie Simek past repositioning lettering from the logo of outcome #1 and redrawing the webbing.
• The embrace of this issue is one of the 32 that appear in the comic collection from the 2000 video game Spider-Man.

Encounter Likewise

• 20 image(south) from Astonishing Spider-Man Vol 1 two
• xx reprint(s) of Astonishing Spider-Human being Vol 1 2

Links and References

• http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/reviews/spiderman_amazing/002.html
• http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/reviews/spiderman_amazing/002-b.html

Footnotes

1. ↑ Cronin, Brian (viii July 2017). Steve Ditko Invented the Comic Corner Box. CBR.com. Retrieved on ix July 2017.

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