Sat, Sep 19, 1981
Air Force One is temporarily captured by Doctor Doom in his airship base, who attaches a mind control device onto the President. With the plane overdue, and journalists waiting at the airport, Peter changes to Spider-Man and rents a plane to the President's last known location. Spidey manages to climb on board Doom's blimp, but Doom jettisons both Spidey and Air Force One, which continues on its journey with Spidey not knowing of Doom's mind controller. Doom continues to kidnap all of the members of the U.N. assembly, attaching mind controllers to each of them. To prevent Spider-Man from interfering any further, Doom sends out a nuclear-powered robot to fight Spidey in the sky. After defeating the robot, Peter is sent on a photo assignment to the U.N. building, where he witnesses Doom kidnapping the Secretary-General, the last free-willed assembly member. Doom traps Spidey on his airship, while he directs the mind-controlled U.N. assembly to vote Doctor Doom master of the world. Spidey escapes from Doom's ship in the nick of time, and devises a plan to defeat Doom and free everyone from his mind-controller.
Sat, Sep 26, 1981
The Lizard releases all reptiles in Central Park Zoo and goes on a rampage. Spider-Man saves everybody, but the Lizard uses a gorilla to distract Spider-Man so he can make his getaway. The Lizard derails two subway cars to make a breeding ground for his reptile army. The Lizard then decides to turn New York into a massive jungle to perfect his reptile army, and Spider-Man must stop him.
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Sat, Oct 3, 1981
The Black Cat crashes a New Years' party at the Daily Bugle, stealing party goers' jewelry. Spider-Man follows her and returns the jewels to Jameson's guests, but loses track of the Cat. The next day, the Black Cat visits the Bugle again, and asks Jameson to issue a challenge to Spider-Man, stating that she will steal the famous Maltese Mouse artifact. Spidey manages to stop the Cat from stealing the Mouse from the cargo ship carrying it, and is offered the job of guarding the artifact on the televised Johnny Griffon Show. That night, the Black Cat appears on schedule and steal the Mouse from under Spider-Man's nose in front of millions of viewers. Spidey pursues the Black Cat, with full intentions of capturing her, and retrieving the Maltese Mouse.
Sat, Oct 10, 1981
Peter and Sally-Ann Beaumont are invited by NASA to witness Explorer One, a space probe, landing back on Earth after collecting radioactive soil samples. The Sandman steals the radiation to make himself more powerful. Spider-Man is unable to beat him, and Peter is blamed by Sally-Ann by not being around while Spider-Man was fighting the Sandman. He now faces explosion from the college, and the Sandman starts to rip off banks. Peter must expose his identity to the school board to safe face if he wishes to stay in college. But he must also stop the Sandman.
Sat, Oct 17, 1981
Communication satellites and power generators start to disappear, and a mysterious individual, Mr. M, broadcasts that it was him who caused the blackouts and thefts of the satellites. He will return the satellites and power for a million dollars. Spider-Man uses the Insternational Communications satellite to find out that Magneto is responsible, and he attaches Spidey onto the satellite. Spider-Man then uses the satellite like a space shuttle, and flies to Easter Island to face off against Magneto in hope to reclaim the communication methods.
Sat, Oct 24, 1981
Spider-Man is invited to Mysterio's Disco Palace and finds out that Mysterio is hypnotizing everyone, and created an army. Mysterio does the same thing at E.S.U. the next day, and Peter is not affected. Mysterio increases his army and travels to the First City Bank to commit a robbery, but Spider-Man is easily outnumbered and gets locked in the bank vault. After escaping, Mysterio plots to steal a nuclear missile. Spider-Man must free the people and then stop Mysterio.
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Sat, Oct 31, 1981
Across New York, delegates from the U.N. Security Council are kidnapped and replaced by android duplicates. Meanwhile, in the distant kingdom of Latveria a peasant, known as Johan, frees his father from captivity, vowing to also free his country from Doctor Doom, who is the one responsible for the replacement of the U.N. members. Soon, Doom is invited to the U.N. assembly to make a speech, where he claims that the true answer to the world's problems is to have a single leader in charge of the world. Since he replaced the U.N. members with android duplicates, Doom is elected master of the world, apparently legally. It isn't long before Spidey realizes what has happened, and he goes to Robbie for help. In a battle with Doom's henchmen, Robbie accidentally falls out of one of the Bugle's windows, when it is revealed that he too was an android duplicate. With this unknown to Spidey however, he vows to get revenge on Doom for the death of his best friend. Doom himself also has plans to steal the Black Diamond from the U.N. building using his androids. Spidey confronts Doom at the U.N., and attempts to show the world of Doom's treachery, and to stop Doom himself.
Sat, Nov 7, 1981
Spider-Man has been accused of three robberies, the latest at a downtown jewelry store. Spidey sets out to prove himself innocent of these crimes, but is sidetracked when Aunt May reminds him of their trip to the carnival. At the carnival, Peter senses that something is wrong, and finds out that the Ringmaster, who is at the carnival, is using a hypnotic gas and skilled acrobatic performers to fool people into thinking that Spider-Man is committing crimes. Spidey does battle with the Ringmaster and his goons, but is forced to leave the scene when the Ringmaster releases all the caged animals. While Spidey rescues everyone at the carnival, the Ringmaster's group goes to the 1st Federal Bank. There, they commit another crime by robbing the place of a hundred million dollars' worth of gold, with the blame again going to Spider-Man. Spidey tracks down the Ringmaster, and has to defeat him, clear his own name, and retrieve the gold.
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Sat, Nov 14, 1981
Norman Osborn's memory of the Green Goblin is restored in a train wreck. He then seeks revenge against Spider-Man. On Holloween night at an E.S.U. party, Peter Parker is trapped by the Green Goblin. The Goblin then steals an memory amplifier device to reveal Spider-Man's identity to the public. The Goblin then terrorizes Jameson by destroying the Daily Bugle issue that day with a disintegrating compound, and kidnaps Jameson. Spider-Man must save Jameson before the Goblin reveals his identity to him.
Sat, Nov 21, 1981
Peter Parker considers about appearing on the Beyond Belief show to win a cash prize by doing stunts. Jameson, meanwhile, reveals that his company has been sent a threat that a diamond and urn will be stolen by a Triangle of Evil that night. Spider-Man stops the burglaries, but pays for the damage caused by fighting with the Triangle. The Triangle's leader, Stuntman, offers to appear with Spider-Man on the Beyond Belief Show to pay his damages. The Stuntman is really Jack Riven, a stuntman struck by lightning and wants revenge. Spider-Man must defeat Stuntman on the show.
Sat, Nov 28, 1981
Dr. Doom battles Goron, a being that can shoot multi-property beams from his eyes. Doom proposes a partnership with Goron to take over the world. Doom invites the world leaders to give them a demonstration of Goron's powers. Doom uses Goron to take over their minds. Spider-Man then runs into Goron when Doom sends him to New York to uses his growth beams. Goron then goes to Cape Canaveral where Goron is to use his beam on a space platform to feed the world; instead he traps the scientists and steals the guidance systems for the country's missile guidance system. Spider-Man must stop him from activating every one of the United States's nuclear missiles.
Sat, Dec 5, 1981
Peter's assignment from Jameson is to report on how valuables can be transported publicly be camouflage. However, the convoy is attacked by a masked cowboy, the Sidewinder. Spider-Man follows Sidewinder with the stolen goods to his diabolical base of operations - the local rodeo. To get the property back, he must defeat the Sidewinder's monstrous mechanical bull.
Sat, Dec 12, 1981
J. Jonah Jameson decides to hire Kraven the Hunter to capture the last known sabretooth tiger as a mascot for the Daily Bugle. The large cat in question is actually Zabu, Ka-Zar of the prehistoric Savage Land's companion. When Ka-Zar learns of Kraven's involvement in his pet's disappearance, he follows him to New York. Just after landing Zabu escapes from his cage, with both Kraven and Spider-Man trying to subdue the beast. After Zabu has been restrained, Ka-Zar manages to get to New York and after causing chaos in his search for Zabu, he meets up with Spider-Man. Spidey volunteers to assist Ka-Zar in his quest to free Zabu. Upon hearing of Ka-Zar's arrival in New York, Kraven prepares to capture him, with Zabu as the bait. Kraven captures both Ka-Zar and Jameson, leaving Spider-Man alone to rescue Ka-Zar and Zabu, and defeat Kraven.
Sat, Dec 26, 1981
Professor Gizmo, a master criminal, devises a plan to use Spider-Man to attach an antenna to a sunken treasure ship, the El Conquistador, since only he can withstand the pressure at that depth. Peter, meanwhile, has been invited to a charity cruise on board Jameson's yacht. Gizmo attacks the yacht and demands that all the diamond donations be surrendered to him, using the old ship, the Monitor. Failing to draw out Spider-Man with the theft at sea, Gizmo then attempts to steal the Spirit of St. Louis from the Smithsonian Museum. This time, Spidey shows up save the plane, but is blamed for the subsequent theft of it. Next, Gizmo uses a remote control device to control various machines in the city, and steals a bank's vault contents. Gizmo then announces that he will return the stolen diamonds, money and plane in exchange for Spider-Man. The next day, during the Thanksgiving parade, Gizmo captures Spidey, and tells him of his plan to raise the treasure ship. After Spider-Man is forced to raise the ship, he has to stop Gizmo and recover the stolen items.