Spider-Man #5 [Direct]
(December 1990)

Marvel, 1990 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1990-10-16
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Editing
Dan Cuddy (assistant editor); Jim Salicrup (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Torment, Part Five of Five (Table of Contents)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Todd McFarlane (signed as McFarlane)
Inks
Todd McFarlane (signed as McFarlane)
Colors
Todd McFarlane ?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man
Reprints

Indexer Notes

This cover is an homage to the cover of Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #33 (February 1966).

Cover Thumbnail for Spider-Man (Marvel, 1990 series) #5 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Spider-Man (1990 series) #5 [Toy Biz Reprint] Cover Thumbnail for Spider-Man (1990 series) #5 [Newsstand]
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Torment, Part 5 (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Todd McFarlane
Pencils
Todd McFarlane
Inks
Todd McFarlane
Colors
Gregory Wright
Letters
Rick Parker
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mary Jane Watson-Parker; Lizard [Curt Connors] (villain); Calypso (villain)
Synopsis
Is Spider-Man dead? Of course not, but he's not in very good shape. [per next issue box]
Reprints

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

Crawl Space / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Torment, Part Five of Five
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. Torment, Part 5
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Crawl Space
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Morbus Iff
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Stéphane PETIT
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Eric Rom
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore
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