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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published January 1965
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Scorpion!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Scorpion [Mac Gargan]
Genre superhero
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #15; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #158; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #5; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1

20 page Spider-Man story "The Coming of the Scorpion!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Scorpion [Mac Gargan] (Intro see notes; Origin); Liz Allan; Flash Thompson; Aunt May Parker; J. Jonah Jameson; Dr. Farley Stillwell (Death)
Synopsis J. Jonah Jameson pays Dr. Stillwell to turn Mac Gargan into the Scorpion to try to capture Spider-Man. Stillwell's formula makes Gargan become more evil than he originally was and the Scorpion goes on a rampage and is finally stopped by Spider-Man.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Mac Gargan appeared in the previous issue in three panels, un-named.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #15; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #158; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #5; in Spider-Man Megazine (Marvel, 1994 series) #5; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1