Amazing Spider-Man 102

"Why should I waste my power in dubious battle with you -- when there is a world beyond these mildewed walls -- a world ripe to become the prey of -- Morbius!"

- Morbius

Appearances

 * Spider-Man, Peter Parker


 * Gwen Stacy
 * J. Jonah Jameson
 * Joseph Robertson
 * Martine Bancroft
 * May Parker
 * Nikos


 * Lizard, Curt Connors
 * Morbius the Living Vampire, Michael Morbius


 * Anna Watson undefined
 * Leo
 * Syd


 * Daily Bugle staff
 * TV News Service


 * Altered humans
 * Bats
 * Lizard monsters
 * Rats
 * Vampires


 * England
 * Europe
 * Mediterranean Sea
 * New York
 * Long Island
 * Southhampton
 * Curt Connors' summer house
 * New York City
 * Manhattan
 * Queens
 * Forest Hills
 * Parker residence


 * Spider-tracer
 * Web-shooters


 * Boat
 * Garbage scow


 * Adhesion
 * Gliding
 * Superhuman agility
 * Superhuman strength
 * Transformation


 * Electrocution
 * Laboratory
 * Radioactivity
 * Scientific experimentation
 * Smoking

Notes & Trivia

 * "ASM 102" serves as a shortcut to this page.


 * The tagline to this issue is "If Morbius doesn't kill Spidey -- the Lizard will!"


 * With this issue the cover price on the series raises from .15 cents per copy to .25 cents per copy.


 * The digital version of this issue was released by Marvel Comics in 2013.


 * This is the second appearance of Morbius the Living Vampire. He makes a chronologically earlier appearance in the second story in this issue. His last actual appearance was in Amazing Spider-Man #101.


 * The origin of Morbius is revealed in a dream sequence in this issue. His first name is revealed as Michael.


 * Morbius has hollow bones, which allows him to glide on air currents, giving the illusion of being able to fly. The fabric wing scallops under his arms help keep him aloft.