Appearing in "The Vulture Hangs High!"
Amazing Spider-Man #128
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Mary Jane Watson (Main story and recap)
- Christine Murrow (Main story and recap)
- Flash Thompson
- Daily Bugle
Antagonists:
- Vulture (Clifton Shallot) (Main story and recap)
Other Characters:
- NYPD (Only in recap)
- Gloria Jenkins (Only in recap)
- Uncle Ben Parker (Referenced)
- Aunt May Parker (Referenced)
- Unnamed Secretary (Empire State University Registration Office)
- "Mouthpiece" Moylan
- Myron Feissberg (First appearance)
- Unnamed Janitor
- Sam Erwin (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Germany (Mentioned)
- North America (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters (Main story and recap)
- Vulture's Wings (Main story and recap)
- Spider-Man's Belt Camera
Vehicles:
- Dusseldorf (First appearance)
Synopsis for "The Vulture Hangs High!"
Amazing Spider-Man #128
Checking the morgue files at the Bugle leads Peter to learn that Adrian Toomes (the original Vulture) is still in prison and wonders who is posing as him. After being chewed out by Jameson for not getting pictures of the Vulture's attack on ESU, Peter decides to check out one of his stoolies as Spider-Man to learn where the new Vulture has been since. The stoolie's information takes him to a shipping yard, where Peter is attacked by the Vulture and dumped into the harbor.
Peter survives the episode and realizes that Mary Jane is still at risk and takes a cab to make her go report the attack to the police. Mary Jane agrees this time, but wants to go alone, Peter refuses and takes her into the cab. They are attacked by the Vulture, who causes the cab to crash, stunning everyone on board. The Vulture takes Mary Jane again, and Peter (reviving quickly) changes into Spider-Man and goes after her.
Spider-Man saves Mary Jane again and fights off the Vulture who flees. Spider-Man having deduced the Vulture's true identity takes Mary Jane back to the cab and ensures that the cabby will rush her to the police. Spider-Man then goes back to the ESU bio lab where he confronts Christine Murrow. When the Vulture attacks, Spider-Man defeats him with the mutation reversing serum he created with Curt Connors. The Vulture reverts to his true form, that of Clifton Shallot. Spider-Man reveals to Christine that he deduced Shallot as being the Vulture after the Vulture said a similar phrase that Shallot said to him earlier that day. He then tells her that he figured out how Shallot pulled everything off: When the funding for his research was cut, he took the Vulture's costume he acquired and his mutation device to make himself appear like the Vulture. He then admonishes Christine, who knew of the whole plot for not reporting Shallot to the authorities out of fear, telling her that the murder of an innocent girl could have been avoided if she reported Shallot to the police, to begin with.