Issue(s): Amazing Spider-Man #124, Amazing Spider-Man #125
Cover Date: Sep-Oct 73
Title: "The mark of the Man-Wolf" / "Wolfhunt!"
Credits:
Gerry Conway - Writer
Gil Kane / Ross Andru - Penciler
Tony Mortellaro & John Romita Sr.- Inker

Review/plot:
John Jameson keeps turning into a werewolf because of a bit of moonrock that he found.

It's been grafted to his skin so he can't remove it. Spider-Man solves the problem by ripping it off of him. Painful but effective.

As stupid as it is to have JJ's son turn into a werewolf, it's even more amazingly dumb that they didn't tie the cause back to the earlier problems John had back in Amazing Spider-Man #42-43, where space-spores gave him super-strength. I was stunned by the contrivance of giving him an entirely separate origin for his latest supernatural transformation. Truly bizarre.

The subplots in this issue almost make up for the stupidity of the main plot. Peter and Harry are both clearly having trouble dealing with the deaths of their loved ones, and MJ is unable to draw them out, in part because of her reputation as a carefree girl without any substance.

There's what seems like a bit of a same-book continuity error in this issue. While (i.e., in between two scenes of) John explaining how he wound up a werewolf to JJ, there's a scene of Spider-Man trying to get info from Robbie Robertson at the Daily Bugle, and JJ shows up to order the police to attack Spider-man with tear gas.

I guess maybe JJ left his son alone for a while and went back to the office, but that seems odd.

You might think Spider-Man saving JJ's son might change their relationship, but Spider-Man doesn't expect it to.

Quality Rating: D+

Historical Significance Rating: 3 - John Jameson becomes the Man-Wolf

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• Spider-Man isn't fazed by meeting a werewolf, having encountered Werewolf By Night in Marvel Team-Up #12.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Marvel Tales #101, Marvel Tales #102

Marvel was on a real monster trip at this time. We're lucky there weren't more werewolves.

First mention of a Man-Wolf at Marvel was in Marvelmania #4(7/70) as a delayed Rich Buckler project.

I know this story and Cap 168 from a record/comicbook from power records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gERe0pB-DpQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTqmmsOJSzo

Quite a coincidence -- I was going to leave exactly the same comment Kveto from Prague left two days ago, and this isn't even a newly posted entry!

Maybe the stories would not hold up so well now, but this and the Cap 168 were a lot of fun in book-and-record form. The part I remembered most was the howl from the actor playing Man-Wolf when the pendant gets ripped off.

Oh Boy. I did not know that Kane and Andru had worked together. :)

One man's junk is another man's treasure! Loved this two part story as a kid! And, still do!

Ah, beaten by a good two years. I had the same record for this story that Kveto and Todd had. Can't think of how many times I listened to them. Good times.

I never had the Cap record, but looking at an image of the Spider-Man record online, I realize my copy had the ad on the front for other records and I distinctly remember the picture of the Cap record.

So first super-strength spores, and then the Man-Wolf. If this didn't stick, I'd all be for John Jameson being the Jimmy Olsen of Marvel for how many superpowers he can develop. (then again we already have Rick Jones...)

When I was a child, the cover to Amazing Spider-Man #124 scared the hell out of me! It was Man-Wolf's flaming red eyes staring back at me that did it. Boy, was I a goofy kid! Somewhat less goofy adult, though.

I'm not sure the continuity error of JJJ being in two places at once can be explained away. He is with his son telling him about the Man-Wolf, then he is at the Bugle tear-gassing Spidey and wearing something different, then back again with his son with the same outfit as before. Looks like just a plain old continuity good.

Funny that Kristine Saunders and the Man-Wolf have matching outfits.

As someone who prefers his super-people wear super-costumes, I liked that the Man-Wolf's attire was a renovation of the flight suit he wore in the aforementioned Spider-Man 42-43.