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The Spectacular Spider-Man #24

Name: The Spectacular Spider-Man #24
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Nov 1978 · Marvel · 0.35 USD

📊 ~47,729 copies sold its debut month

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“Spider-Man Night Fever”

★ 1st appearance — Hypno-Hustler

About this Issue

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #24 is the Bronze Age debut of Hypno-Hustler (Antoine Delsoin) and his backup band the Mercy Killers — a villain act built entirely around the disco craze that dominated American pop culture in 1978. The issue doubles as a vivid time-capsule artifact, with its title lettering deliberately echoing the logo of the 1977 John Travolta film Saturday Night Fever and its setting planted squarely inside a New York disco club. Though Hypno-Hustler has never been embraced as a serious threat, his survival in Marvel continuity for decades — appearing in storylines from Spider-Man: Reign to 'Origin of the Species' — speaks to the enduring comic value of unabashedly era-specific characters. The announcement in December 2022 that actor-musician Donald Glover was set to star in a Sony film built around the character brought renewed spotlight to this otherwise overlooked corner of the Spider-Man back-issue bins.

writer Bill Mantlo · artist, inker Frank Springer · colorist Bob Sharen · letterer Gaspar Saladino · letterer Joe Rosen · cover Frank Springer

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CGC 9.8 · 48 in census $452*

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History

By the time this issue went on sale in August 1978 (cover-dated November 1978), writer Bill Mantlo had been the regular scripter on Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man since roughly mid-1977, following the handoff from Gerry Conway and Archie Goodwin. Mantlo's run was deliberately campus- and street-level in focus, spotlighting Peter Parker's social circle at Empire State University rather than the grander threats of Amazing Spider-Man. Artist Frank Springer handled both pencils and inks, as well as the cover, giving the issue a consistent visual voice; Bob Sharen colored and Bob Hall served as editor under editor-in-chief Jim Shooter. The Hypno-Hustler was conceived as a single-issue, disposable antagonist — a disco-era gimmick villain — rather than a recurring nemesis, reflecting Mantlo's habit during this period of creating culturally topical one-shot threats.

Trivia · 7 facts

First appearance of Hypno-Hustler (real name Antoine Delsoin), a technology-based hypnotist who uses specialized goggles and a guitar to perform mass hypnosis on his audiences in order to rob them.
First appearance of the Mercy Killers, Hypno-Hustler's backup band whose amplified singing enhances his hypnotic effect — both characters introduced simultaneously in this single issue.
Written by Bill Mantlo (also the co-creator of Rocket Raccoon) and drawn by Frank Springer, who handled pencils, inks, and the cover; Jim Shooter served as editor-in-chief.
Story title is 'Spider-Man Night Fever' (also listed in some sources as 'Death Dance of the Hypno-Hustler!!'); the title's lettering was styled to evoke the Saturday Night Fever logo, an explicit nod to the disco-film phenomenon of the era.
A Whitman variant edition was produced alongside the standard newsstand edition.
The Marvel Database records three reprints of this issue, confirming ongoing interest in preserving the story in collected or reprint formats.
In December 2022, Sony Pictures announced a live-action Hypno-Hustler film with Donald Glover attached to star and produce, with Myles Murphy (son of Eddie Murphy) as screenwriter — a project that drew widespread attention to this issue before Sony's Spider-Man Universe was effectively wound down following a string of box-office disappointments.