#52

Synopsis

Kingpin tries to drown Spider-Man and Jameson in the basement, but Spider-Man breaks free and confronts Kingpin. Foswell turns on Kingpin and helps Jameson to escape, but at the price of his own life. Meanwhile, Flash Thompson has returned, on leave from the military.

Notes

Reprinted in

• Marvel Tales #37
• The Daredevils #1— 7 pp.; pgs. 1-7
• The Daredevils #2— pages 8-11; page 12, panels 2-6; page 13, panel 5; pages 14-20
• The Essential Spider-Man #3— black and white
• Spider-Man Comics Magazine #1
• Marvelserien #18
• Amazing Spider-Man #1/1991
• Spindeln #2
• L'Uomo Ragno [Collana Super-Eroi] #47
• Die Spinne #53
• Creepy Worlds #101
• Spider-Man Comics Weekly #46
• Edderkoppen klassikere #1/1991
• El Hombre Araña / El Asombroso Hombre Araña #46
• L'Uomo Ragno Classic #15— Questa storia è ristampata da una prova di stampa in bianco/nero, ricolorata dall'editore Italiano, perché gli impianti di stampa originali a colori non erano più disponibili.
• HIP Comics #1956
• Hit Comics #56
• Spider-man: De bästa Spider-Man-historierna! #1
• Strange #49
• Une Aventure de l'Araignée #23
• Homem-Aranha #20
• Grandes Heróis Marvel #23
• The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus #2
• Marvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: Días de Gloria #[nn]
• Edderkoppen #2
• スパイダーマン [Spider-Man] #1
• Spider-Man Taschenbuch #[nn]
• Spider-Man Komplett #52 [5]
• The Essential Spider-Man #3 [Third Edition]— reprinted in black and white
• The Essential Spider-Man #3 [Second Edition]— reprinted in black and white

Credits

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

John Romita

Inks

John Romita, Mike Esposito

Colours

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Sam Rosen

Editor

Stan Lee

Stan's soapbox

Stan Lee

Characters

• J. Jonah Jameson
• Peter Parker
• Spider-Man
• Mary Jane Watson
• Harry Osborn
• Frederick Foswell
• Robbie Robertson
• Flash Thompson
• Kingpin
• Wilson Fisk
• Betty Brant
• Ned Leeds
• Gwen Stacy

Other printings & variants

• British