Spectacular Spider-Man
#21
[Direct Edition]
(January 2005)
Marvel,
2003 Series
- Price
- 2.25 USD; 3.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except semi-monthly in January, May and August
- On-sale Date
- 2004-11-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- PSR
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [in horizontal box]
- Barcode
- 759606054275 02111
- Editing
- Tom Brevoort (editor); Andy Schmidt (assistant); Nicole Boose (assistant); Molly Lazer (assistant)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Colección Extra Superhéroes (Panini España, 2011 series) #64 (Agosto 2016)
-
[no title indexed]
Spider-Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Talent Caldwell
- Inks
- Robert Campanella
- Colors
- Jose Delgado
- Genre
- superhero
![Cover Thumbnail for Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #21 [Direct Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/196/w200/196122.jpg?941228183720380127)
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Read 'Em an' Weep
Spider-Man / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Paul Jenkins
- Pencils
- Talent Caldwell
- Inks
- Robert Campanella
- Colors
- Studio F
- Letters
- Virtual Calligraphy; Chris Eliopoulos
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man; Angel (guest); Dr. Strange (guest); Wong (guest); Black Cat (guest); Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; Human Torch; The Thing] (guests); Kingpin (villain); Masochist Marauders (villains, flashback)
- Synopsis
- It's time once again for the superhero poker game, only this time the Kingpin comes calling and asks to pull up a chair to the table. Oh, and Dr. Strange, while full of mystic knowledge, is REALLY bad at cards.
- Reprints
-
in Spider-Man (Egmont, 1999 series) #9/2005 ([6 september] 2005) [original title: Read 'Em An' Weep] -
in Spider-Man (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1999 series) #9/2005 ([september] 2005)
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Indexer Notes
The first superhero poker game took place in Marvel Two-In-One #51 and Marvel did a number of stories featuring the roving game in the eighties, but this is the first story to feature the event in many years.
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