Issue(s): Marvel Team-Up #68
Cover Date: Apr 78
Title: "The measure of a man!"
Credits:
Chris Claremont - Writer
John Byrne - Penciler
Bob Wiacek - Inker

Review/plot:
Coming way too soon after their appearance in Howard the Duck, Dakimh the Enchanter and his apprentice Jennifer Kale show up again along with the Man-Thing.

Peter Parker actually finds the Man-Thing trapped in a traveling circus (run by an Amos Jardine)...

...and frees him and borrows a plane service usually used by Curt Conners to return him to the Everglades (which is interesting, but a bit weird). The plane crashes, as all planes in comics do, and Spidey is stuck stranded in the swamp with the Man-Thing. Then we get into the thing with Dakimh, who is being attacked by an entity called D'Spayre...

...who is kind of like Nightmare but not quite.

Spider-Man eventually prevails by overcoming his negative emotions or whatever.

D'Spayre is dragged out every so often by writers who want to write a heavy handed symbolic psychological story. He's not a favorite of mine. And he's got a stupid name.

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 3 - first D'Spayre

Chronological Placement Considerations: Spider-Man appears here during a large gap between Amazing Spider-Man #170-171, where a lot of his sundry guest appearances have been placed. Man-Thing and Jennifer Kale appear here after leaving Howard the Duck in Howard the Duck #24.

References:

Spider-Man met the Man-Thing previously in Giant-Size Spider-Man #5.

• Connors doesn't have to pay for the plane ride thanks to "Dane Gavin and the New York Ecological History Museum". There's a reference to Giant-Size Man-Thing #2.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Marvel Tales #204

You didn't list Amos Jardine in the Characters Appearing

Thanks, Midnighter. Added him.

Given that D'Spayre is created by Claremont and Byrne, it's odd that Claremont would use him again immediately after Byrne leaves X-Men.