Marvel Masterworks Vol 1 1

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Marvel Masterworks Vol 1 #1

November, 1987

Editor-in-Chief

Tom DeFalco

Cover Artists

Jack Kirby

Publisher

Marvel Comics

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Appearing in "Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1"

Featured Characters:

• Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Supporting Characters:

• Aunt May
• Uncle Ben (Only appearance; dies)
• Flash Thompson
• Liz Allan
• Raymond Warren
• Seymour O'Reilly
• Sally Avril
• Daily Bugle
  • J. Jonah Jameson
  • Eleonore Brant
  • Betty Brant
• Fantastic Four
  • Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)
  • Invisible Girl (Sue Storm)
  • Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
  • Thing (Ben Grimm)

Villains:

• The Burglar
• Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov)
• Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
• Tinkerer (Phineas Mason)
• Quentin Beck (not named); One of the Tinkerer's Gang.
• The Tinkerer's Gang; Disguised as Aliens
• Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)
• Sandman (Flint Marko)
• Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom)
• Doombot
• Lizard
• The Living Brain
• Electro
• Enforcers
  • Montana
  • Fancy Dan
  • Ox (Raymond Bloch)
• Big Man (Frederick Foswell)

Other Characters:

• Radioactive Spider(Only appearance; dies)
• Midtown High students
• Scientists
  • Dr. Eric Schwinner (First appearance)
• Crusher Hogan
• Max Shiffman (Television producer)
• Baxter Bigelow
• May Parker's Landlord
• Army personnel
• John Jameson
• NYPD
  • Bernard O'Brien
  • Charlie
  • Chuck
  • Joe
• Professor Newton
• Joe (J.J.J.'s assistant)
• Unnamed thieves
• Charlie
• The Staff of Bliss Private Hospital
• Jessica Jones
• Principal Davis
• Martha Connors
  
• Billy Connors
• Bobby
• Unnamed Prison Guards
• Prisoners
• An unnamed doctor
• An unnamed jeweler
• Two Unnamed Technicians - Employees of the International Computing Machines (ICM) Corporation
• Mr. Petty
• Peter Parker's High School Classmates
  • Charlie
• International Computing Machines (ICM) Corporation
• Dorrie Evans
• Sally
• Gunmen who Spider-Man ignores
• Bank Manager
• Nurse at Forest Hills Hospital
• Harris Linesman in trouble
• A group of convicts at the House of Detention
• Stargazer on rooftop
• Workmen making repairs on a power line
• Dr. Bromwell
• Mr. and Mrs. Abbott (May Parker's Neighbors)

Locations:

• United States of America
  • New York
    • New York City
      • Queens
        • Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
          • New York Hall of Science
        • Forest Hills
          • Aunt May's House
          • Midtown High School
          • Forest Hills Hospital
          • Forest Hills Bank
      • Manhattan
        • Television Studio
        • Daily Bugle Building
        • Park Avenue Diamond Exchange
        • Jameson Publications
        • Empire State University
        • Baxter Building
        • The Lark Building
        • ACME Garage
        • Oak Street
        • Bliss Private Hospital
        • American Museum of Natural History
      • US Atomic Research Center
      • Ryker's Island
      • The Tinkerer's Garage
      • An abandoned silo on a farm in Staten Island
    • New York State Prison
    • Unidentified Launch site near New York City (Slocum AFB?)
    • Unidentified Air Force Base near New York City (Suffolk County AFB?)
    • Dorrie Evans' House
  • Florida
    • Everglades
      • An Old Abandoned Spanish Fort (Deep in the Swamp)
      • The Connors' Home
  • Pennsylvania

Items:

• Spider-Man's Web-Shooters
• The Daily Bugle
• Daily Globe newspaper
• Spider-Man's Utility Belt
• Spider-Man's Belt Camera
• NOW Magazine
• Anti-Magnetic Inverter
• Vulture's Wings
• Spider-Man's Spider-Signal
• Doctor Octopus' Tentacles
• Spider-Sense Transmitter (Doctor Doom)
• Spider Detector (Doctor Doom)
• Doctor Doom's Armor

Vehicles:

• John Jameson's Space Capsule
• The Tinkerer's "Space Ship"
  
  

Synopsis for "Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1"

Reprints of:

Amazing Fantasy #15
"Spider-Man!"
(August, 1962)

Amazing Spider-Man #1
"Spider-Man"
(March, 1963)

Amazing Spider-Man #2
"Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"
(May, 1963)

Amazing Spider-Man #3
""Spider-Man Versus Doctor Octopus""
(July, 1963)

Amazing Spider-Man #4
""Nothing Can Stop the Sandman""
(September, 1963)

Amazing Spider-Man #5
"Marked for Destruction by Dr. Doom!"
(October, 1963)

Amazing Spider-Man #6
""Face-to-Face with... the Lizard!""
(November, 1963)

Amazing Spider-Man #7
""The Return of the Vulture""
(December, 1963)

Amazing Spider-Man #8
"The Terrible Threat of "The Living Brain""
(January, 1964)

Amazing Spider-Man #9
""The Man Called Electro!""
(February, 1964)

Amazing Spider-Man #10
""The Enforcers!""
(March, 1964)

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See Also

• Discuss Marvel Masterworks Vol 1 1 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Marvel Masterworks series

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Recommended Reading

• Marvel Masterworks #5 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2)
• Marvel Masterworks #10 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3)
• Marvel Masterworks #16 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4)
• Marvel Masterworks #22 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5)
• Marvel Masterworks #33 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6)
• Marvel Masterworks #44 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 7)
• Marvel Masterworks #67 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 8)
• Marvel Masterworks #86 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 9)
• Marvel Masterworks #101 (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 10)

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