Marvel Tales #134

High above the Manhattan skyline, Doctor Octopus — green-suited and menacing, his mechanical tentacles coiling through the air — hurls himself at Spider-Man in a mid-air showdown that crackles with urgency. The cover blurb declares that Doc Ock has "returned from the dead," and his taunt to the Web-Slinger ("Let's see if YOU can do the same!") makes this John Romita-cover edition feel genuinely charged with danger. Reprinting Len Wein and Ross Andru's "The Ghost That Haunted Octopus," this December 1981 issue also promises a bonus feature spotlighting Doctor Strange — a fine double-dose of Marvel adventure for fifty cents.