Marvel Tales #171 [Direct]
(January 1985)

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
1984-09-18
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 #56, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-10-10.
This issue has variants:

Man on a Rampage! (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]; Aunt May Parker
Reprints
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Man On A Rampage (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]; Doctor Octopus; Betty Brant; Ned Leeds; J. Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Dr. Curt Conners; Frederick Foswell
Synopsis
Aunt May is dying due to some radioactivity in her blood, and Dr. Octopus has stolen the radioactive isotope that Peter and Dr. Conners need to create a serum to save her life.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Man on a Rampage!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. Man On A Rampage
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. [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
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