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7️⃣ Synopsis for ”The Return of the Vulture”
Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #7
Following his defeat at the hands of Spider-Man, the Vulture has been spending his time in prison secretly smuggling parts from the prison machine shop into his cell so that he can recreate his flying technology, this time correcting the flaw which caused his defeat last time. Perfecting the device, the Vulture breaks out of prison.

When Peter Parker hears about this break-out, he goes after the Vulture as Spider-Man. Hoping to use the same device that defeated the Vulture before, Spider-Man is shocked to find that the Vulture corrected the flaw in his device. The Vulture easily defeats Spider-Man, and Spidey injures his arm in the process and has to come up with an excuse for it as Peter Parker.

Later when Peter is trying to sell his Vulture pictures to J. Jonah Jameson, the Vulture arrives demanding that Jameson gives over the company’s payroll. While Jameson argues with the crook, Peter slips away and changes into Spider-Man. He then battles the Vulture all over the Daily Bugle building. When Spider-Man attaches a web line to the Vulture, the Vulture takes him high above the city.

There Spidey uses his webs to pin the Vulture’s wings and the two begin to fall. However, Spidey weaves a web parachute and saves them from harm. He then turns the Vulture over to the police. When Jameson yells at Spider-Man for causing chaos in his newspaper, Spider-Man shoots webbing in his mouth before leaving to change back into his civilian guise. He then sneaks back into the office and ”hides out” with Betty Brant as Jameson storms through the office, trying to get the webbing off his mouth.
Marvel Tales Vol 2 144

Featured Characters:

Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:

Aunt May
Daily Bugle Staff
J. Jonah Jameson
Betty Brant
Flash Thompson
Liz Allan
Antagonists:

Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (Main story and recap)
Other Characters:

Bobby
Unnamed Prison Guards
Prisoners
An unnamed doctor
An unnamed jeweler
Peter Parker’s High School Classmates
NYPD officers
Races and Species:

Humans
Locations:

Sol (Main story and recap)
Earth (Main story and recap)
North America (Main story and recap)
United States of America (Main story and recap)
New York (Main story and recap)
New York City (Main story and recap)
Manhattan (Main story and recap)
Midtown
Murray Hill
39th Street and Second Avenue
Daily Bugle Building
Queens
Forest Hills
Ingram Street
Aunt May’s House
Midtown High School
An abandoned silo on a farm in Staten Island
New York State Prison (First appearance)
Items:

Spider-Man’s Suit (Main story and as }} and {{Recap|Web-Shooters in recap)
Spider-Man’s Utility Belt
Spider-Man’s Belt Camera
Anti-Magnetic Inverter (Main story and recap)
Vulture’s Wings (Main story and recap)

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Oct 1982

Marvel Comics

009281024767

144

July

1982

Release Date July 6, 1982

Newsstand

Originally presented in Amazing Spider-Man #7

United States

$0.60

Bronze Age

English

Magazine

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