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The Amazing Spider-Man #223 – “Night of the Ape!” (1981)
While testing a new web formula at Empire State University, Peter Parker finds himself caught in the crosshairs of an unusual villain: the Red Ghost and his band of super-powered apes! When a dangerous experiment and a rare mathematics text trigger a confrontation on campus, Spider-Man must protect a bright young grad student—Roger Hochberg, making his first appearance—from being silenced forever. Featuring dynamic early artwork by John Romita Jr. and a script by J.M. DeMatteis from a Dennis O’Neil plot, this issue delivers classic Bronze Age energy, quirky villains, and a spark of the grounded character work that would define the upcoming Stern era.