I: Feature Story: "The Speedster and the Spider!"

Pages: 20

Script: Stan Lee
Layouts: John Romita
Pencils: Jim Mooney
Inks: Jim Mooney
Letters: Sam Rosen

Guest Appearance: Harry Osborn, Quicksilver, Jarvis, Joe Robertson, John Jameson, Martha Robertson, Randy Robertson, Ned Leeds, Betty Brant, Captain Stacy

Flashback Cameo: Scarlet Witch, Toad, Kingpin

Synopsis: Peter is so obsessed with worry over Jonah's health, as well as the blame that he has received for stealing the stone tablet, tha the doesn't hear Harry entering the apartment until it's too late. He has to scramble to put his costume away and has to greet Harry while still wearing his spidey socks, but fortunately Harry doesn't spot the webs on his feet. Peter decides to start developing the film of his fight with the Kingpin, hoping they may go to prove his innocence.

Quicksilver, the mutant speedster, races to New York on a mission to find redemption from his Avengers teammates after the ship he and his sister, the Scarlet Witch, piloted during their escape from Magneto (see Avengers #63) crash lands in the Adirondack Mountains. The mutant is very worried that the world will connect him and his sister to the maniacal misdeeds of Magneto.

Joe Robertson is at the hospital where J. Jonah Jameson is recovering from what has been diagnosed as shock, not a heart attack, and is handed publisher duties while JJJ has to recuperate. His first order of business is to buy Peter's pictures of his fight with the Kingpin, which actually does help exonerate Spider-Man and the campus protesters who got sucked into the Kingpin's thievery. Joe pays Peter at a rate far beyond what Jonah had previously paid him. Peter has great joy to hear that JJJ will be okay, and as Spider-Man he hands over the stone tablet to Capt. Stacy.

Quicksilver sees a newspaper that implicates Spider-Man being hunted by the police and when he actually sees Spider-Man swinging by, he figures if he nabs the webhead, he'll be looked upon favorably by the public at large. He takes on Spider-Man, who is shocked that an Avenger would be attacking him. While the pair fight, JJJ is handed a copy of the Bugle that clears Spider-Man from guilt in the stone tablet case and flips out.

The speedster has Spider-Man locked inside a suction vortex, but before he totally passes out, Spidey sticks his arm out; Quicksilver runs into it and has the wind knocked out of him. Spider-Man carries his limp body away and up to the rooftop, where they hash out their differences after Quicksilver comes to.

--synopsis by Gormuu

--letters pages provided by Debricazar

Issues Reprinted
Amazing Spider-Man #68-77, Marvel Super-Heroes #14

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