The Spectacular Spider-Man #53 [Direct]

(April 1981)

Toys of the Terrible Tinkerer (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Mantlo (credited)

Pencils

Jim Mooney (credited)

Inks

Frank Springer (credited)

Colors

Barry Grossman (credited as Ben Sean)

Letters

Jim Novak (credited)

Feature Logo

The Spectacular Spider-Man!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man; Tinkerer, Toy (death; a robot); Rocket Racer (flashback); Big Wheel (flashback)

Synopsis

Spider-Man fights the Tinkerer and Toy, his robot assistant.

Reprints

• in Die Spinne Comic - Taschenbuch (Condor, 1979 series) #15
• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #51 (10 avril 1982)
• in Edderkoppen (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #3/1983 ([mars] 1983)
• in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #3/1983 ([Mars] 1983)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #267 (5 de junio de 1985)
• in Essential Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006)

Keywords

robots; toys

Blown About (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Cup Cakes; Human Torch / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Spectacular Spider-Mail / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

Roger Stern (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

letters from Mark Nemetz, Jim Clark, Michael Andring, John A. Wilcox, Bill Hartzo

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1980
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 211,327
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 219,008
Owner: Marvel Comics Group, 575 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022; Cadence Industries Corp., 21 Henderson Drive, West Caldwell, NJ 07006