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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published November 1972
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "The Menace of the Monstroid!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Vision; Monstroid
Genre Superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted in Essential Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (April 2002); in Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 2010 series) #1

20 page Spider-Man and the Vision story "A Passion of the Mind"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Vision; Harry Osborn; Monstroid (first appearance; a Skrull scout; villain); Puppet Master [Phillip Masters] (villain)
Synopsis Puppet Master takes control of a Skrull scout, not realizing that it has the same mental frequency as the Vision. When he goes to attack the Baxter building and the Fantastic Four, he ends up facing the Vision and Spider-Man instead.
Genre Superhero
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Mike Esposito
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted in Spider-Man Megazine (Marvel, 1994 series) #5 (February 1995); in Essential Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (April 2002); in Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 2010 series) #1

1 page Marvel Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Lee's Soapbox; Mighty Marvel Checklist promo (ad from the publisher) "Marvel Bullpen Bulletins; Stan Lee's Soapbox [November 1972]"

Characters The Cat [Greer Nelson]
Script Stan Lee; ?
Letters typeset
Notes Stan Lee editorial about the fans he's met on his recent lecture tour. Miscellaneous Marvel news items. Marvel checklist for comics dated November 1972.

1 page Mail it to Team-Up letters page "Mail it to Team-Up"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters from readers - Matt Graham, Sandie Weissman and Lynn Stone.

1 page Universal Schools advertisement "How I Got the Tip of My Life"