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Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 2

  • Issues 11-19, ASM Annual # 1

  • Betty’s brother is killed during a showdown between Spiderman and Doc Ock and Betty turns on Spiderman

  • Doc Ock unmasks Spiderman in front of Betty and Jameson and none of them believe it (literally)

  • Liz breaks up with Flash

  • Ock is incarcerated again

  • Someone impersonates Spiderman robbing a bank

  • A character called Mysterio manipulates the Bugle against him

  • He is a special effects expert who can create very convincing illusions

  • He is defeated

  • A character called the Green Goblin recruits the Enforcers 

  • He tells Spiderman about a movie that a famous director wants him in

  • It is actually a ploy to get him to star along actors who play the Enforcers who are the real deal

  • They try and take Spiderman out and chase him into a cave on location which happens to have Hulk hiding in it

  • Green Goblin escapes as Spidey gets away from Hulk and leaves the Enforcers tied up for the authorities 

  • The Chameleon wires money to his friend Kraven the Hunter who is renowned as the greatest hunter in Africa 

  • Kraven is determined to hunt the greatest game of all, challenged by Chameleon- Spiderman

  • Kraven possesses great strength, endurance, speed, stamina, and agility by way of a magical potion

  • Peter begins neglecting Betty after Kraven and Chameleon are defeated and deported to South America

  • Amazing Spiderman Annual # 1 aka introduction of The Sinister Six. Refer to first section of Sinister Six post

  • Peter continues to screw up his ‘thing’ with Betty

  • Daredevil and Spiderman deal with The Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime as Daredevil helps Spiderman out of Ringmaster’s hypnosis

  • They take him and the circus down

  • Goblin attacks Spiderman at a fan club Flash put together

  • Torch is there to help out but Goblin escapes after Spiderman leaves to check on Aunt May in the hospital. Everyone believes he’s a coward but Torch assumes he had a reason to bail

  • Jameson publicizes it and everyone from FF to Avengers to Daredevil question it 

  • Sandman teams up with The Enforcers who all abduct Torch

  • Betty starts spending more time with another man, Ned Leeds

  • Spidey frees Torch and together they take the villains down