* 1ST APPEARANCE "HELLRAZOR" (Denton Phelps)
* Black Panther Guest Appearance
It is a Monday morning as Thomas Agar, a business executive of ill repute, fields reporters' questions outside a federal courthouse in Manhattan. Rumor has it that his company, Agar Ores, has swindled more than $500 million from Wakanda in a tungsten ore deal. Allegedly, the ore that Agar delivered was of a much lower grade than Wakanda had purchased, so the United States Department of Justice has summoned Agar to a preliminary hearing. As Agar smugly evades the questions, Peter Parker takes photographs for the Daily Bugle. No one notices the shadowy figure, dressed in a Black Panther costume, observing the proceedings from a treetop vantage point. Suddenly he leaps down and grabs the businessman, shouting that the "Black Panther" has come for revenge. When Peter interferes, the man punches him in the jaw, and it is only Peter's superhuman strength that keeps him from being crippled. Then a helicopter arrives overhead and a rope ladder descends. Carrying Agar, the figure climbs up and the helicopter flies away.

Those who trifle with Wakanda, he says, do so at their peril. Peter is helped to his feet by the other reporters, and then he hurries off, explaining that he has to rush his photographs in for the late edition. Actually, he needs a place to change into his Spider-Man costume, and after he does, he web-swings toward the East Side after the helicopter. He knows that as an Avenger and ruler of Wakanda, the Black Panther would never kidnap anyone: He soon catches up to the aircraft, but the pilot spots him and alerts the panther-garbed kidnapper, who starts shooting with a gun that fires razor-sharp missiles. One of them slices through the web-strand holding Spider-Man, who breaks his fall with a flagpole that springs hum onto the roof of a passing truck. By the time he comes to rest, the helicopter is gone, so he angrily heads for the Wakandan Consulate. Meanwhile, at the Consulate, the real Black Panther is in the conference with two aides.

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