Appearing in "Vampire at Large!"
Amazing Spider-Man #102
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Lizard (Dr. Curt Connors) (Main story and recap)
- Martine Bancroft (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Emil Nikos (First appearance) (Appears in flashback)
- Gwen Stacy
- Aunt May Parker
- Daily Bugle
Antagonists:
- Morbius (Michael Morbius) (Origin revealed) (Appears in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Lord/God (Invoked)
- Charlie (First appearance; dies)
- TV News Service (First appearance)
- Syd (First appearance)
- Joe (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Living Vampires (Main story and flashback)
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Human-Reptile Hybrids (Main story and recap)
- Vampires (Mentioned) (Main story and flashback)
- Rats
- Bats (Only in flashback)
- Sharks (Referenced)
- Tigers (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Long Island (Main story and recap)
- Suffolk County (Main story and recap)
- Hamptons (Main story and recap)
- Southampton (Main story and recap)
- Hamptons (Main story and recap)
- Suffolk County (Main story and recap)
- New York City
- Long Island (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- Transylvania (Mentioned)
- Greece (Only in flashback)
- United Kingdom (Only in flashback)
- England (Only in flashback)
- Mediterranean Sea (Only in flashback)
- Atlantic Ocean (Only in flashback)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Heaven (Referenced)
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters (Main story and recap)
- Spider-Tracer
Events:
- Christmas (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Vampire at Large!"
Amazing Spider-Man #102
Meanwhile, Morbius has retired, and as he sleeps he reflects on the events that caused this transformation: How he and his lover Martine Bancroft and an assistant were out on a yacht conducting an experiment to cure Morbius of a degenerative blood disease. The experiment backfired, turning Morbius into a living vampire. After killing his assistant, Morbius dives into the water not wishing to hurt Martine.
Awakening again, Morbius goes back out on the prowl seeking out fresh victims to feed on. As Spider-Man and Connors swing through the city looking for Morbius, Gwen Stacy sits at home worrying about what happened to Peter. When she calls his Aunt May, she becomes even more worried when May tells her she hasn't heard from Peter either. At the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson confides in Joe Robertson about the Bugle's financial problems.
While elsewhere in the city, Spider-Man and Connors find Morbius, and they battle him. During the fight, Connors manages to extract some of Morbius's blood and injects himself with it. Surprisingly, it causes him to change back to his human form. But before Spider-Man can take the rest of the sample, Morbius grabs it and flies off. Spider-Man hitches on for a ride with a web-line, shadowing Morbius all over the city. Morbius eventually flies smack into an overpass causing him to fall into the river below. Spider-Man manages to recover the blood sample before Morbius sinks to the bottom. Injecting himself with the cure as well causes Spider-Man's additional arms to disappear.