Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 7
Issues 62-67, Spectacular Spiderman Magazine 1,2, Annual #5
Spiderman encounters Medusa of the Inhumans
A man named Montgomery G. Bliss looks to capitalize on Medusa’s hair for his hair product business
Norman Osborn begins having flashes of Green Goblin and Spiderman
After Medusa refuses to do hairspray modeling for Bliss, he frames her by messing up his studio and tells Spiderman she attacked him
Spidey confronts Medusa who tells him Bliss lied
Spidey tells reporters that Medusa was uncontrollable thus ruining Bliss’s hopes of anyone investing in anything marketed with her
Spectacular Spiderman Magazine 1 is a story that takes place in the future and is retconned in issues 116-118
Captain Stacy is already retired and Spiderman is attacked by a robot
Revealed that a politician named Richard Raleigh who is running for mayor staged the robot attack and another incident at a campaign event to gain sympathy
Raleigh sets his robot to kill Stacy so as to not be able to dig up any dirt on him
Spidey distracts the robot away from Captain Stacy and has a hunch to make it follow him to Raleigh’s when the robot freezes at the sight of Raleigh on a billboard
Raleigh is killed by the monster robot as is the scientist who helped create it
Spidey swings away at the scene of the crime as it dictates that the robot murdering Raleigh and him dying a hero. Of course, Jameson suspects Spidey was responsible
The original Vulture is back
He takes back his original wings from a museum which were taken from Drago
He breaks Drago out from prison and gives him the wings he was wearing
OG Vulture (V1) explains he regained the will to live after Blackie Drago betrayed him
V1 liberated Drago to beat him and prove who the superior Vulture is
V1 beats Drago who surrenders to the cops and V1 shifts his attention and forgets about Drago when Spiderman appears
Vulture and Spidey do battle over Manhattan rooftops and the Bugle
Captain Stacy tells Gwen it wasn’t Peter who attacked him
Spidey manages to depower Vulture’s wings taking away their strength but Vulture is still able to fly away
After going unconscious from the battle on the street, a crowd gathers and want to unmask Spidey
Captain Stacy protects Spiderman’s right to privacy
Spidey is admitted into the jail infirmary
A number of criminals break out and take Captain Stacy as a hostage
Spidey pretends to be on their side and leads them out until he knocks them all out and escapes himself
Mysterio sets up a model amusement park with psychedelic effects intended for Spiderman
Gwen makes amends with Peter
Mysterio challenges Spiderman
Spiderman confronts Mysterio at his hideout where he subjects Spidey to the psychedelic theme park
Spidey appears the size of an ant to the amusement park which becomes life-like and Mysterio is a giant now
Spidey eventually quashes Mysterio’s tricks and leaves him tied up
Norman Osborn remembers that he’s Green Goblin
Norman cleverly and deviously sets up a dinner meeting for himself, Harry, MJ, Gwen, and Peter
Peter accepts to see what Norman is up to
Peter causes a scene when he throws his web-shooters into Norman’s fireplace causing them to explode and release smoke
Norman knows Peter is up to something and sets off to attack May as Green Goblin
The two are engaged in a very personal and deadly battle in the sky
Giving Goblin a taste of his own medicine by throwing a psychedelic pumpkin bomb at him, Norman forgets that he’s the Goblin
Spiderman is being pursued and attacked by several men in a casbah in Algeria
He’s grazed by a bullet on the head and falls into water and thought dead
A flashback shows Peter pulling a heavy suitcase in the basement belonging to May
Trying to stop it from falling, Peter tugs at the handle which breaks off and opens the case
Inside he finds photos of his parents on a newspaper clipping claiming they were traitors to the country and spies
May tells him she kept the truth because she never wanted Peter to know the truth
Richard Parker, Ben Parker’s brother, told May and Ben that he and his wife Mary would be be doing an overseas job and asked them to look after Peter
A month later they see in the paper that the Parkers were traitors
Peter needs to know for sure and hitches a ride from Reed Richards to Algeria
The man who identified the Parkers is in Algeria which is also where they died
He asks the man to confirm if he knew them which he does and that they also worked for a spy master of whom he cannot divulge the identity of but gives the address
An eavesdropper overhears and goes to warn the master. Spidey is then attacked while on his way
He arrives and searches through a file drawer and finds an ID card with Richard Parker’s name on it confirming he was a spy
Spiderman is surprised when the criminal mastermind speaks and addresses him- the Red Skull
Skull sets his brute Sandor on Spidey and is tough to take down
Spidey sends a missile right back to an assassin known as The Finisher
Finisher tells Spiderman that Richard and Mary Parker were discovered as double-agents by Red Skull and therefore killed in a plane crash
Spiderman confronts Skull who inadvertently destroys his place of business
Spiderman finds a card within the ID card confirming Richard’s status as an American double-agent and vows to prove his innocence