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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published October 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Doctor Doom!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]
Genre superhero
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #142; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #1; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)

21 page Spider-Man story "Marked for Destruction by Doctor Doom!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom]; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant (first name revealed); Flash Thompson (last name revealed); Liz Allen (last name revealed as Allan); May Parker; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]
Synopsis Dr. Doom tries to trick Spider-Man into helping him defeat the Fantastic Four. When Spider-Man turns him down, he decides to capture Spider-Man. Flash Thompson dresses up as Spider-Man for a prank and Dr. Doom mistakes him for the real Spider-Man and captures him instead, and Flash has to be saved by the real Spider-Man.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Publishing frequency increases to monthly. First Time Doctor Doom uses a robot to take his place.
Reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man Annual, The (Marvel, 1964 series) #2; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #142; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #1; in Spider-Man Classics (Marvel, 1993 series) #6; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)