Well well! So teacher's pet is gonna help the nice little doctor with some experiments this week-end, eh? While us other dumbheads waste time having dates and livin' it up! 
Appearing in "Spider-Man Vs. the Chameleon!"
Amazing Spider-Man #1
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov) (First appearance) (See chronology)
Other Characters:
- General Motors (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Professor Newton (First appearance)
- F.B.I. (Named only)
- NYPD
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Daily Globe Newspaper (Named only)
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
Synopsis for "Spider-Man Vs. the Chameleon!"
Amazing Spider-Man #1
Still looking for a way to use his powers to make money, Spider-Man decides to try and join the Fantastic Four. He enters the Baxter Building, escapes a "plexiglass cage" trap, and battles the four heroes. After explaining his intentions, he learns that the Fantastic Four are a non-profit organization and earn no salaries. He leaves disappointed, vowing to make the group "look like pikers."
Meanwhile, the Chameleon is using his "multi-pocket disguise vest" to infiltrate a defense installation in the Lark Building at the edge of New York City. Later that night, while mulling over the defense plans he has stolen, he hears about Spider-Man's visit to the Fantastic Four's headquarters. He deduces that Spider-Man has no legitimate way to earn a living and must be short of money. He once more infiltrates the defense installation, and, disguised as Spider-Man, steals the remainder of the missile defense plans. Spider-Man, who had been contacted with a phony job offer by the Chameleon on a special frequency that only his Spider-Sense can pick up, arrives at the defense installation just after the Chameleon's departure. The security guards try to capture him, thinking he has stolen the plans.
Evading capture, Spider-Man uses his elastic webbing to sling himself out over the harbor, then spins a web parachute to land safely. He grabs a boat and follows the Chameleon's helicopter to a waiting Soviet submarine. He quickly gains control of the helicopter, and he and the Chameleon return to the Lark Building. The Chameleon disguises himself as one of the security guards to avoid arrest, but after a brief battle, he is captured. Unfortunately, during the battle the guards believe that Spider-Man is the Chameleon in disguise, forcing Spider-Man to flee. He departs, rueful of the way things never seem to turn out right.Appearing in "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"
Amazing Spider-Man #2
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (First appearance) (See chronology)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- NOW Magazine (First appearance)
- Joe (First appearance)
- J. Jonah Jameson (See chronology)
- Eleonore Brant (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- Sally Avril
- Flash Thompson
- Liz Allan
- Numerous other unnamed Midtown High School students
- Raymond Warren
- Uncle Ben Parker (Photo)
- NYPD
- Officer Chuck (First appearance)
- Officer Charlie (First appearance)
- Numerous other unnamed officers
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Jameson Publications (First appearance)
- Radio Network
- Little Italy (First appearance)
- 240 Centre Street (First appearance)
- Park Avenue
- Park Avenue Diamond Exchange (First appearance)
- New York City Sewer System
- Queens
- Staten Island (First appearance)
- Abandoned farm silo (First appearance)
- Vulture's hideout (First appearance)
- Abandoned farm silo (First appearance)
- Manhattan
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- North America
- Earth
Items:
- Vulture's Wings (First appearance)
- Numerous copies of NOW Magazine (First appearance)
- Spider-Man's Belt Camera (First appearance)
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Spider-Man's Utility Belt (First appearance)
- Anti-Magnetic Inverter (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Duel to the Death with the Vulture!"
Amazing Spider-Man #2
New York City is being terrorized by a new criminal called the Vulture. He is equipped with artificial wings that allow him to swoop down on his victims, snatch their valuables, and fly away before they know what is happening. Nobody has been able to photograph him, and J. Jonah Jameson needs pictures to illustrate his Vulture feature article for NOW Magazine. Peter Parker decides to try to photograph the criminal in action. Selling the photographs will help him and his Aunt May make ends meet.
Meanwhile, the Vulture is in an abandoned silo, his Staten Island hideout, making plans to hit the Park Avenue Jewelry Exchange. As he flies out over the city, he is spotted by Spider-Man, who is equipped with a miniature camera once owned by his late Uncle Ben. Spider-Man manages to take some photographs of the Vulture, but the Vulture sees him, attacks him from behind, knocks him out, and dumps him into a water tower. After breaking out of the water tower, Spider-Man heads home, where he adds some improvements to his devices and develops his photographs.
The next day, Peter Parker arrives at J. Jonah Jameson's office with pictures of the Vulture. The publisher is very impressed and pays him well. The next day Peter heads for the Park Avenue Diamond Exchange, which the Vulture tauntingly announced to the public as the site of his next robbery. While everybody expects the Vulture to strike from above, he strikes from beneath a manhole cover, seizes a case of diamonds, and flees through the New York City sewer system. Spider-Man uses his Spider-Sense to track him down and wins their battle with an anti-magnetic inverter, a device he built to counteract the magnetic power that the Vulture uses for flight. The Vulture is left for the police, and Peter Parker has photographs of the Vulture's capture, which he sells to J. Jonah Jameson for a large sum of money. Peter and Aunt May are able to make ends meet.Appearing in "Just A Guy Named Joe!"
Amazing Spider-Man #38
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Joe Smith (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- NYPD
- Norman Osborn
- Tommy Tomkins (First appearance)
- Sally Green
- Mary Jane Watson (Cameo) (Face Not Seen)
- Marvin (Boxer) (First appearance)
- Student protesters
- Director
- Betty Brant (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- Mary Jane Watson's car
Synopsis for "Just A Guy Named Joe!"
Amazing Spider-Man #38
Spider-Man emerges and Joe gets angrier seeing another person trying to keep him down. They fight, and after a pause in the action, Joe regains his senses and runs away with Tomkins. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn is disguised and offers $20,000 to criminals to get rid of Spider-Man. Back at Empire State University, Gwen again sees Pete in a positive light, admiring his strength and courage. As word gets out that Spider-Man has a bounty on his head, he’s busy fighting crooks coming at him left and right. As he fights, he hears a commotion at a gym, seeing Joe Smith pounding on the other boxers.
After a few punches to Joe, he’s knocked out of his delusion and Tomkins runs in before he’s arrested. Tomkins says the charges have been dropped and that the movie company wants to give Joe a large starring role for his impressive display. Spider-Man fights more criminals and is angry that Ned has the possibility to marry Betty, because he doesn’t have to hide Spider-Man, and misses another visit from Mary Jane Watson.