Title: Essential Spider-Man Vol. 2 TPB
Publication Date: 1997 (On Sale: August 6, 1997)
Format: 528-Page Trade Paperback
Cover Price: $14.95
Collection Group: Marvel Essentials
Contents: Amazing Spider-Man #21-43 and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2-3

Stories:

• Spider-Man: "Where Flies the Beetle..." (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #21 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "The Clown and His Masters of Menace" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #22 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "The Goblin and the Gangsters" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #23 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "Spider-Man Goes Mad" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #24 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "Captured by J. Jonah Jameson" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #25 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "The Man in the Crime-Master's Mask" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #26 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "Bring Back My Goblin to Me" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #27 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "The Menace of the Molten Man" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #28 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "The Wondrous World of Dr. Strange" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "Never Step on a Scorpion" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #29 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "The Claws of the Cat" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #30 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "If This Be My Destiny..." (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (1965)

• Spider-Man: "Man on a Rampage" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #32 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "The Final Chapter" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #33 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "The Thrill of the Hunt" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #34 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "The Molten Man Regrets..." (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #35 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "When Falls the Meteor" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #36 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "Once Upon a Time There Was a Robot..." (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #37 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "Just a Guy Named Joe" (20 pages)
  Steve J. Ditko (Plotter/Artist) Stan Lee (Scripter) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #38 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "How Green Was My Goblin" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) John Romita (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #39 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "Spidey Saves the Day" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) John Romita (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #40 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "The Horns of the Rhino" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) John Romita (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #41 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "The Birth of a Super-Hero" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) John Romita (Artist) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #42 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "Rhino on the Rampage" (20 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) John Romita (Artist) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man #43 (1966)

• Spider-Man: "...to Become an Avenger" (21 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Don Heck (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3 (1966)