The Amazing Spider-Man 1963 #271 Direct ed. - back issue - $5.00

Crusher Hogan is working maintenance at a boxing facility and spinning tall tales of how he helped create Spider-Man when he discovers a plot by one of the owners to take down a fighter. Peter gets a call from May who asks him to keep an eye on Nathan who may be in trouble. Spider-Man gets involved in the problems Crusher Hogan and Bobby Chance are having with Manslaughter. Felling the villain, Spider-Man tells a white lie that confirms his "close" relationship with Hogan, making him a hero. Peter tells Aunt May he lost track of Nathan and finds he was beaten badly and is now in the hospital.

A shipping schedule printed in the untitled newsletter from the comic book store Comics Plus in Dearborn, Michigan, published August 2, 1985, issue #1, stated this issue was scheduled to be released on August 16, 1985. The on-sale date listed as September 3, 1985, may be for the newsstand release date.

• Mayhem Is a Man Called Manslaughter! - Per Ron Frenz on Facebook, John Romita inked this cover, not Joe Rubenstein, as we formerly had. Correction submitted by Mike Fichera and Craig Brasfield via the GCD Error Tracker.
• - Letters from Chris Hammond, Sal Toci, Chris Hoyt, Danny Lippitt, Julian Imrie, C.K., Tim Dwyer, Tony Garcia, Thomas W. O'Brien, Brooke Rosenbaum, Tony Yee, J. Smith, and Eric Pfeffinger. Also, Jim Owsley and Mike Harris write about the passing of Dan Crespi.