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The Amazing Spider-Man #114

Name: The Amazing Spider-Man #114
Brand: Marvel
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Nov 1972 · Marvel · 0.20 USD

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“Gang War, Shmang War! What I Want to Know Is...Who the Heck Is Hammerhead?”

★ 1st appearance — Jonas Harrow

About this Issue

The Amazing Spider-Man #114 is the keystone issue of Gerry Conway's landmark Bronze Age gang-war arc (issues #113–115), delivering the full origin and first cover appearance of Hammerhead — one of Spider-Man's most durable Maggia crime lords. By fusing the Marvel superhero idiom with the aesthetic of 1930s gangster cinema, Conway and Romita deliberately revived a Dick Tracy–style criminal archetype within a contemporary Marvel narrative, a creative choice Conway later acknowledged as a direct homage to the earliest Spider-Man villains. The issue also plants a quietly ominous scene between Professor Miles Warren and Gwen Stacy, a thread that Conway would eventually pull all the way to the Clone Saga — making this issue a small but traceable node in one of the most consequential subplots in Spider-Man history. It arrives at a pivotal editorial moment, early in Conway's tenure as Stan Lee's replacement writer, when the series was about to enter its most celebrated and tragic phase.

writer Gerry Conway · writer, artist, inker John Romita · artist Jim Starlin · inker Tony Mortellaro · letterer Artie Simek · cover John Romita

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History

Stan Lee handed the scripting reins on Amazing Spider-Man to nineteen-year-old Gerry Conway, who took over with issue #111 and quickly co-created Hammerhead with artist John Romita Sr. as one of his first major contributions to the mythology. The interior art on #114 carries a notable collaborative fingerprint: Jim Starlin — just entering professional comics — provided page breakdowns for Romita, who then finished and inked the story, a working arrangement Starlin himself confirmed in an interview published in Comic Book Artist #18. Roy Thomas served as editor on the issue, keeping continuity over a creative team in clear transition. The cover, a bold picture-frame composition spotlighting Hammerhead, was penciled and inked entirely by Romita Sr.

Trivia · 8 facts

Cover date: November 1972; published by Marvel Comics under the Magazine Management Co. indicia.
Written by Gerry Conway; pencils and inks by John Romita Sr.; layouts/breakdowns by Jim Starlin (per Starlin's own account in Comic Book Artist #18); lettered by Art Simek; edited by Roy Thomas.
Hammerhead's second appearance overall (first appearance was Amazing Spider-Man #113, October 1972) and his first cover appearance, drawn by John Romita Sr.
First appearance of Dr. Jonas Harrow — the disgraced surgeon who rebuilt the wounded mobster's shattered skull with a steel-alloy plate, creating Hammerhead — depicted in flashback.
Full origin of Hammerhead revealed: an amnesiac immigrant found near death in the Bowery who, after experimental cranial surgery, fashioned his entire identity around a gangster movie poster he saw during recovery.
Professor Miles Warren appears on the ESU campus questioning Gwen Stacy about Peter Parker — an early, understated scene that foreshadows Warren's eventual transformation into the Jackal.
The issue is the middle chapter of the three-part Hammerhead/Doctor Octopus gang-war story spanning Amazing Spider-Man #113–115, one of the first extended organized-crime storylines in the series.
Reprinted domestically in Marvel Tales #93 (July 1978), The Essential Spider-Man Vol. 6 (2004), Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 12 (2010), Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection Vol. 7 — The Goblin's Last Stand (2017), and The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 4 (2019); also reprinted in multiple international editions including Spanish, Norwegian, German, and Italian publications.