Amazing Spider-Man 24

"I can't go to Jameson now... can't afford to be near anyone! Can't let others see what's happening to me! And... what if it gets worse?? What if I lose control completely?? What if I can't tell what's real from what's imaginary??"

- Spider-Man

"Spider-Man Goes Mad!" is the title to the twenty-fourth issue of the first Amazing Spider-Man ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story was written & edited by Stan Lee with artwork by Steve Ditko. It was lettered by Sam Rosen. This issue shipped with a May, 1965 cover date and carries a cover price of .12 cents per copy.

Appearances

 * Spider-Man, Peter Parker


 * Betty Brant
 * Flash Thompson
 * Frederick Foswell
 * J. Jonah Jameson
 * Liz Allan
 * May Parker


 * Ludwig Rinehart
 * Doctor Octopus, Otto Octavius
 * Sandman, William Baker
 * Vulture, Adrian Toomes


 * Connie


 * Daily Bugle staff


 * Humans
 * Altered humans
 * Fish


 * New York
 * New York City
 * Queens
 * Forest Hills
 * Parker residence
 * Manhattan
 * Daily Bugle


 * Robot bat
 * Robot cat
 * Spider-Man's belt camera
 * Spider-signal
 * Web-shooters


 * Taxicab


 * Adhesion
 * Bio-conversion
 * Illusion generation
 * Spider-sense
 * Superhuman agility


 * Criminal
 * Psychiatrist
 * Reporter
 * Smoking

Notes & Trivia

 * This issue includes "The Spider's Web" letters column.


 * The tagline for this issue is the same as the title of the inside story. The splash page opens with the tagline "This is the house Peter Parker lives in!"


 * Letterer Sam Rosen is credited as S. Rosen in this issue.


 * Includes an in-house ad for Journey Into Mystery''.


 * Spider-Man sent Frederick Foswell to jail in Amazing Spider-Man #10.


 * Peter Parker makes reference to Ned Leeds in this issue. Ned Leeds is a reporter for the Daily Bugle and the future husband of Betty Brant.


 * Flash Thompson makes reference to the Human Torch and the X-Men in this issue. The Human Torch is Johnny Storm, a member of the Fantastic Four and a friend of Spider-Man's. The X-Men are a team of mutant super-heroes that protects a world that hates and fears them.


 * This is the first appearance of Connie, who is a classmate of Peter Parker's, and apparently holds some degree of interest in him.

Reprints
The story from this issue is reprinted in the following volumes:
 * 40 Years of the Amazing Spider-Man DVD-ROM
 * Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection
 * Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Collection
 * Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus 1
 * Essential Spider-Man 2
 * Marvel Masterworks 10
 * Marvel Masterworks: Amazing Spider-Man 3
 * Marvel Tales 19
 * Marvel Tales 162
 * Marvel Treasury Edition 8