Solicit Synopsis
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
MAYHEM IN MANHATTAN
STUPENDOUS! Of course it's stupendous. It's ol' Spidey himself in his first - yes, first - full-length novel.
SINISTER! When a baddie drops out of a sky-high window (Did he jump - heh heh - or was he pushed?), Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson wants Spider-Man to take the rap. Has the wall-crawler come to the end of his rope? Does his life hang by a slender thread?
GLOBAL! To swing clear of this one, he's got to snoop on an international oil conference. There's blackmail! Radioactivity! And a welcoming committee of death-dealing arch-villains!
DIABOLICAL! Who's behind it all? Think hard, 'cause we're not telling. But it just might be that too much tendril looms large in Spidey's formidable future!
AN INSTANT COLLECTOR'S ITEM: SPIDEY'S FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVELNotes
- Mayhem in Manhattan is the first book in what will later be called the Marvel Novel Series from Pocket Books. However, unlike most of the later novels, this first novel was not identified as being part of that series on its cover.
- This novel contains an introduction by Stan Lee
- An event from this novel was referenced in Amazing Spider-Man #186. This is the first (and possibly the only) Marvel novel to be referenced by a footnote in a Marvel comic.