Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 5

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Issue Number: Annual 5

Release Date: November 1968

Highlights

• First appearance of Richard and Mary Parker, Peter's parents
• Peter finds a newspaper clipping of his parents, who he was told died when he was an infant
• We find out that Peter's parents were labeled as traitors to their country
• Guest appearance by the Fantastic Four's Reed Richards, Johnny Storm and the Thing
• Peter goes to Algeria to investigate his parent's past 
• Spider-Man comes face to face with the Red Skull for the first time
• First appearance of Finisher and also his death
• Spider-Man defeats the Red Skull and discovers his father was not a traitor, as initially alleged

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Peter has no money for a plane ticket to Algeria, so he asks the Fantastic Four, as Spider-Man, for a lift

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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