Appearing in "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Aunt May
- Daily Bugle
- J. Jonah Jameson
- Joe (J.J.J.'s assistant)
- Eleonore Brant (J.J.J.'s secretary) (unnamed)
- Flash Thompson
- Liz Allan
Raymond Warren 
- Sally Avril
- Seymour O'Reilly
Adversaries:
- Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
(First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Peter Parker's High School Classmates
- New York Police Department
Locations:
- United States Of America
- New York State
- New York City,
- an abandoned silo on a farm in Staten Island
- New York State
Items:
- Spider-Man's Web-Shooters
- Spider-Man's Utility Belt (First appearance)
- Spider-Man's Belt Camera (First appearance)
- NOW Magazine (First appearance)
- Anti-Magnetic Inverter
- Vulture's Wings
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Adversaries:
- Tinkerer (Phineas Mason) (First appearance)
- Quentin Beck (not named); One of the Tinkerer's Gang.
- The Tinkerer's Gang (First appearance); Disguised as Aliens
Other Characters:
- Professor Cobbwell
- Peter Parker's High School Classmates
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- The Tinkerer's "Space Ship"
Synopsis for "The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!"
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
- The Vulture is Spider-Man's first super-powered foe.
- J. Jonah Jameson is revealed in the first story as the publisher of NOW Magazine.
- In the first story, Peter Parker modifies his utility belt to hold a camera and extra cartridges of web fluid.
- The first story is the first time that Peter Parker sells pictures to J. Jonah Jameson.
- It was revealed in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #51 that:
- The "aliens" in this story are simply out-of-work movie stuntmen and extras hired by the Tinkerer; they wore alien costumes as a ruse in case they are seen.
- The "spaceship" is an ordinary aircraft disguised as an alien spaceship.
- However, aliens resembling these seen here have been shown in several outerspace stories drawn by Jim Starlin.
- This issue features the first diagram detailing how Spider-Man's web-shooters operate.
- This issue is reprinted in Pocket Book Series #Amazing Spider-Man 1.
- This issue is reprinted in Marvel Tales Vol 2 #139
Trivia
- The Cover Logo was redesigned by Sol Brodsky and Artie Simek by repositioning lettering from the logo of issue #1 and redrawing the webbing.
- The cover of this issue is one of the 32 that appear in the comic collection from the 2000 video game Spider-Man.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Spider-Man last appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Last Issue); He appears next in Untold Tales of Spider-Man, chapter "Side by Side with the Astonishing Ant-Man!".
- The Vulture appears next in Amazing Spider-Man #7.
- Quentin Beck appears next as Mysterio in Amazing Spider-Man #13.
- The Tinkerer appears next in Amazing Spider-Man #159.
Links and References
- http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/reviews/spiderman_amazing/002.html
- http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/reviews/spiderman_amazing/002-b.html
- http://www.samruby.com/AmazingSpider-ManA/amazing_spiderman_002.htm