Marvel Tales #169 [Direct]
(November 1984)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.30 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-07-17
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Danny Fingeroth (reprint editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #52, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-08-07.
This issue has variants:

The Claws of the Cat! (Table of Contents)

Spider-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; The Cat
Reprints

The Claws of the Cat (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Ditko (plot); Stan Lee (script)
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Andy Yanchus
Letters
Artie Simek

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; The Cat; Master Planner; Betty Brant; Ned Leeds; Aunt May Parker; Anna May Watson; J. Jonah Jameson; Frederick Foswell; Liz Allan; Flash Thompson
Synopsis
Jameson offers a thousand dollar reward for catching The Cat, and Spider-Man plans to collect. Betty tells Peter that Ned has asked her to marry him.
Reprints

Jonah's Robot (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Man / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Andy Yanchus ?
Letters
Sam Rosen

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Slayer
Reprints

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

Marvel Mails / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Danny Fingeroth
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Includes a segment, Post Office of the Past, which reprints some original letters on this issues story.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Claws of the Cat!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. The Claws of the Cat
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. Jonah's Robot
    Spider-Man
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Marvel Mails
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore