Amazing Spider-Man #24 May 1965
"Spider-Man Goes Mad"
Peter's day doesn't start off well as he breaks up a burglary, but can't sell
pictures since Frederick Foswell spotted Spider-Man but not Peter Parker.
While trying to hide from J. Jonah Jameson at The Daily Bugle, he spots a letter from Ned Leeds to Betty Brant.
When Peter comments on it, as much as he tries,
he comes off as jealous and webslings around the city to keep his mind off of it.
Suddenly, Jameson decides to have Bugle staff interview normal people and tell them
why they hate Spider-Man
even if the Bugle staff never publish the good things.
When Flash catches wind of this, he scares all the staff off. Meanwhile,
Liz Allan allows Peter to be her tutor for science, much to Flash's dislike.
As Jameson celebrates his biased poll, he gets a visit from Dr. Ludwig Rinehart who tells Jameson that due to
a split personality between that of a man and a spider, it's only a matter of time before Spider-Man breaks down.
When Peter hears this, he worries he might be going crazy and not know it.
He makes his way down to the Bugle to tell Dr. Rinehart that he's wrong,
but his spider-sense tells him that a jealous Flash is following him.
Peter finally loses Flash covertly by throwing his "spider beam"
to a roof while rounding a corner that Flash hasn't rounded yet.
He gets distracted by the beam and loses interest in Peter.
Peter then turns into Spider-Man and makes his way to Jameson's office but,
out of nowhere, Doctor Octopus comes to attack him but disappears just as quick.
This repeats again with Sandman as well as The Vulture and Spider-Man starts doubting his sanity.
He worries that he might start attacking innocent people believing they're criminals so he heads home for rest.
When he sees himself in the mirror, he decides not to wait and visits Dr. Rinehart immediately.
As he enters the doctor's house, the entire room is upside down including the furniture, bookshelves, and even the doctor.
As he runs to another room, it's also upside down and as Dr. Rinehart
starts to consult him, Pete is taken to a room where everything is normal.
As the consulting begins, more images of his enemies appear and vanish.
At The Daily Bugle, however, Foswell comes to Jameson with news and Jameson tells
the press room to kill the story on Rinehart as Jameson goes out to find him.
Jameson enters in
with an angry Flash just as Spider-Man
is ready to confess who he is and confronts Dr. Rinehart of being a fraud.
As the fraud is revealed, Flash tackles Jameson and Spider-Man runs after
Dr. Rinehart realizing that the house had been staged with furniture nailed to the ceiling.
The mask is pulled off and the doctor is none other than Mysterio.
Script by Stan Lee,
art by Steve Ditko.