Marvel Tales #177 [Direct]
(July 1985)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.65 USD; 0.30 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
[monthly]
On-sale Date
1985-03-19
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group [not printed on item]
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Christopher Priest (editor); Keith Williams (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

No issue indicia.
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #68.
This issue has variants:

Just a Guy Named Joe! (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]; Joe Smith
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Just a Guy Named Joe (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
Editing
Stan Lee
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; J. Jonah Jameson; Ned Leeds; Harry Osborn; Norman Osborn; Flash Thompson; Gwen Stacy; Aunt May Parker; Joe Smith (villain, introduction); Mary Jane Watson
Synopsis
Average Joe, Joe Smith, fails at being a fighter and tries his hand at acting. Dressed up as a robotic monster, he is zapped with electricity and chemicals which causes him to go on a violent spree against those who doubted his abilities. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn puts a price on Spidey's head and our hero is plagued with goons trying to bump him off. Pete narrowly misses meeting Mary Jane.
Reprints

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

Post Office of the Past / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Steve Ditko (illustration)
Inks
Steve Ditko (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

"Post Office of the Past" reprints original letters from Amazing Spider-Man.

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

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Just a Guy Named Joe!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. Just a Guy Named Joe
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Post Office of the Past
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins
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  • Mickey Coalwell
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  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Richard Thomson
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