AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #86

Spider-Man goes toe to toe with Black Widow! As Spider-Man leaves the Kingpin’s house (from the previous issue), he passes the Black Widow, who realizes that if she could gain Spider-Man’s powers, she would be unstoppable. The Black Widow’s mind flashes back to how she was commissioned to be a spy in Russia, and transformed into the Black Widow. She had had the Crimson Dynamo serving her, and although she had enough powers to challenge Iron Man, she fell in love with Hawkeye upon meeting him. After a while, she began working for SHIELD, but her work with SHIELD led to the death of the Red Guardian, who had been her husband. The Black Widow then starts to design a new costume.…