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Issue Details

Issue #116
Published January 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man; Smasher
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks John Romita
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #95; in Marvel Masterworks: Spider-Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #12

20 page Spider-Man story "Suddenly...The Smasher!"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man; GUESTS: Gwen Stacy; Mary Jane Watson; Harry Osborn; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson; Betty Brant; VILLAINS: Smasher; Richard Raleigh
Synopsis Spidey tackles the Smasher, a ten foot goon who is busting up a billboard for political candidate Richard Raleigh; Finding that his friends are in Raleigh's camp, Pete attends a political rally but, during Raleigh's speech, the roof start to fall in on the crowd.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee; Gerry Conway
Pencils John Romita
Inks Jim Mooney; Tony Mortellaro
Notes Smasher also in 117-118. These three issues are an edited/re-drawn/reprint version of Spider-Man Spectacular #1.
Reprinted from Spectacular Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 [redrawn and heavily re-edited]; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #95 [in this form]; in Marvel Masterworks: Spider-Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #12