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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published 1965
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 20
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Wondrous World of Dr. Strange!"

Characters Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Giant-Size Spider-Man (Marvel, 1974 series) #4 (April 1975); in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #167; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #16 (1991); in Spider-Man's Greatest Team-Ups (Marvel, 1996 series) #nn (June 1996); in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (July 1997)

20 page Spider-Man story "The Wondrous World of Dr. Strange"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Guest Star: Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Villain: Xandu (Introduction); barroom brawlers (unnamed)
Synopsis As Spidey swings on patrol, Xandu, a wizard, observes a barroom brawl, then hypnotically recruits the 2 toughest fighters to do his bidding. Breaking into Strange's sanctum, they overcome him due to their mindless state, and steal "The Wand of Watoomb." Spidey happens across them as they exit, and is also beaten into submission. But he tosses a spider-tracer on one of them before they depart. Xandu uses the power of the Wand to observe anyone from a distance, deciding Strange will be his first victim. But Spidey arrives! Just as he's being sucked into another dimension, he grabs the Wand, hoping it'll force someone to come after him. Strange recovers and arrives at Xandu's home just as the two thugs are bringing Spidey back with the Wand. Spidey & Doc team-up to defeat Xandu, and Strange mystically erases Xandu's memories and evil ambitions. The two heroes part: "May the Vishanti watch over thee!" "And may your amulet never tickle!"
Genre superhero; occult
Script Stan Lee (plot & dialogue); Steve Ditko (plot)
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes 1st recorded meeting of Spider-Man & Dr. Strange, Steve Ditko's 2 most famous creations. Xandu would return in Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 1972 series) #21 (May 1974). The scene of Spidey being sucked down thru the dimensional opening may have inspired a similar scene in the 1969 Spider-Man cartoon, "Revolt In The Fifth Dimension." Synopsis and notes provided by Henry Kujawa (July 2007).
Reprinted in Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1968 series) #179 (April 1969); in Giant-Size Spider-Man (Marvel, 1974 series) #4 (April 1975); in Doctor Strange Master of the Mystic Arts (Simon and Schuster, 1979) #nn (1979); in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #167 (September 1984); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #16 (1991); in Spider-Man's Greatest Team-Ups (Marvel, 1996 series) #nn (June 1996); in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (July 1997)

14 page Spider-Man story "Spider-Man"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; J. Jonah Jameson (intro); Aunt May Parker; John Jameson
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters John D'Agostino [as Johnny Dee]
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted from Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (March 1963)

10 page Spider-Man story "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Terrible Tinkerer [Professor Cobbwell]; Flash Thompson (cameo);
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Art Simek
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted from Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #2 (May 1963)

5 page A Gallery of Spider-Man's Most Famous Foes illustration "Spider-Man Rogues Gallery"

Characters The Circus of Crime [The Clown; Cannonball; The Great Gambonnos; The Ringmaster; Princess Python]; The Scorpion; The Beetle; Jonah's Robot; The Crime-Master
Genre Superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #16 (1991) [3 pp.]; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #165 [1 p.]; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #166 [1 p.]; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #168 [1 p.]; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #169 [1 p.]

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

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom]; Liz Allan; Flash Thompson (as Spider-Man); J. Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Fantastic Four (cameo) [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl; The Thing; The Human Torch]; Betty Ross (cameo)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #5 (October 1963)