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Issue: Spider-Man Comics Weekly #3

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Publication Date: March 1973

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Issues: #3 of 157 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Marvel UK

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Price: £0.05 GBP

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Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Colour Cover; Black & White Interior; Some Colour Interiors

Dimensions: British Magazine Size; 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 8.5 inches" x 11"

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Character(s): Spider-Man; Doctor Octopus; Betty Brant

First Line: This is the showdown, Doctor Octopus!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Credits confirmed from original art. Info per Jason Schachter.

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Colorist(s): ? (red and black)

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]; Betty Brant; Bennet Brant (death); Aunt May Parker; Blackie Gaxton

First Line: I hate you, Spider-Man!

Synopsis: Betty's brother has gotten himself into trouble with gambling debts and Betty is forced to help in Doc Ock's plot to break Blackie Gaxton out of prison to keep her sibling alive. Spider-Man interrupts the escape and Blackie shoots Bennett during the conflict. Gaxton is captured but Doc Ock gets away. Peter tries to comfort Betty over the loss of her brother.

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Pages: 21

Notes: Jack Kirby redrew part of Spider-Man's figure on the splash page. Info per Nigel Kitching, as published in Jack Kirby Quarterly.

This is the first continued story.

Some pages in black and white.

Trapped by Loki, the God of Evil!

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Genres: fantasy, superhero

Character(s): Thor [Donald Blake]; Loki (introduction); Jane Foster; Heimdall (introduction, cameo); Odin (introduction, cameo); Balder (introduction, cameo); Tyr (introduction, cameo)

First Line: At last you've met your match, Thor!

Synopsis: Loki escapes from his prison in Asgard and comes to Earth to get revenge on Thor. The trickster hypnotizes him to help make mischief, but Thor’s transformation into Donald Blake frees him from hypnosis, allowing him to defeat Loki and return him to Asgard.

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Pages: 13

Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pp) and part two—"The Vengeance of Loki!" (8 pp). This is the first appearance of Asgard. Balder, Tyr and Odin only appear from behind, and Heimdall looks nothing like his later appearances.

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First Line: Next week in the new Spider-Man comics weekly #4

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Pages: 1

Notes: Preview of next week's issue made up of the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #12, May 1964 and the cover of Journey Into Mystery #86 November 1962 as an insert at top right.