Amazing Man Comics comic books issue 5

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "1985-1986!"

Written by Stan Lee. Art byDan Barry and Floro Dery. Cover by Floro Dery.

The woebegone web-slinger encounters problems that make Dar Harat seem like a sewing circle-if he can escape from their clutches, that is! Daily Bugle writer Jenny Sue Saxton arrives and falls for Peter Parker while trying to become Spider-Man's biographer, even as Aunt May faces financial ruin in a very modern kind of bank heist. Mary Jane returns just in time to learn an important secret-and to introduce Peter to her Uncle Spencer Watson. Spidey's reputation is under fire when he's accused of pushing drugs. And in a story that rivals the classic "drug issues" of Spider-Man's comic book, Stan Lee addresses one of the most heart-rending problems of modern times: child abuse.

Continuing the first-ever chronological collection of the Spider-Man newspaper comics!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 9-in., 238 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $49.99.

Cover art by Bill Everett. Amazing Mystery Funnies ad. "Origin of Amazing-Man," script and art by Bill Everett (as W. B. Everett); After being raised for 25 years by the Council of Seven in Tibet, Aman is tested and sent out into the world; Of the council members, Nika exhorts him to do good and gifts him with invisibility, while the Great Question plots to bend Aman to his will. Untitled The Cat Man story, art by Tarpe Mills; Barton Stone finishes his 20-year jail sentence and seeks revenge on his former partners who let his wife die in poverty while he took the rap for all of their crimes; A year later, each partner is visited by a strange old lady with a cat who scratches them. "River Subs," art by Larry Riley; Rhodes is sent to investigate suspicious submarine sightings. Untitled story, art by Carl Burgos; The Iron Skull thwarts a scientist's plans to use robots to carry out crime, and mechanized spiders to terrorize the town and extort cash from the local government. Untitled Stranger Than Fiction story, script and art by Walter Galli. "The Tragic Note" text story by Matty Point, art by Frank Thomas. "The Congo War Drum" Part 1, script and art by Paul Gustavson; "Sandy" Thorne of the Congo patrol and his servant Labu go in search of the source of the Congo war drums, knowing they mean trouble. Untitled story, art by John F. Kolb; The mad scientist Barmell, who had already shrunk two people so small that they can fit in his hand, seeks to use Minimidget to kill his brother in order to inherit his fortune; Thwarted by his brother's will, he sends Minimidget out again and again to kill everyone who inherited his brother's fortune in his stead. "The Land Beneath the Sea," script and art by Frank Thomas; Divers Chuck and Jerry are swept through a crack in the sea floor to an underground land populated by strange creatures. "Mystery of the Kidnapped Heir," art by Dick Hayes; Ranger Slim Bradley has to rescue a captured millionaire's son while a forest fire rages. "Origin of Mighty Man," script and art by Martin Filchock; Sunny brings the Professor to the giant valley he found with the Professor's map; They're pursued by bandits, but the giant man they find in the valley rescues them and agrees to come with them into the outside world. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.