Marvel Tales #247 [Direct]
(March 1991)

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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Editing
Tom DeFalco (original editor); Dan Cuddy (assistant editor); Jim Salicrup (editor)

Issue Notes

© 1991 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc.
This issue has variants:

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (Table of Contents)

Cloak and Dagger; New Mutants; Spider-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Marshall Rogers (signed)
Inks
Marshall Rogers (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Cloak [Tyrone Johnson]; Dagger [Tandy Bowen]; New Mutants [Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Sunspot [Roberto da Costa]; Psyche [Danielle Moonstar]; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]]
Reprints

The Hunters and the Hunted [Part One] (Table of Contents: 1)

Cloak and Dagger; New Mutants; Spider-Man / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Mantlo
Pencils
Ron Frenz
Inks
Kevin Dzuban
Colors
Bob Sharen
Letters
Rick Parker

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A tale of predators and prey told in the dead of night by...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Cloak [Tyrone Johnson]; Dagger [Tandy Bowen]; New Mutants [Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Sunspot [Roberto da Costa]; Psyche [Danielle Moonstar]; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]]; Father Francis Delgado; the Mob [Unnamed gangsters] (villains)
Synopsis
Cloak and Dagger hook up with Spidey to take on mob backed drug dealers. The New Mutants are out on the town when two of them are captured.
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Indexer Notes

The second half of the annual is printed next issue.

Street-Poet-Spider-Ham (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Ham / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Cuddy
Pencils
Dan Cuddy (layouts); Alan Kupperberg
Inks
Alan Kupperberg
Colors
Bob Sharen
Letters
Alan Kupperberg

Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
Characters
Spider-Ham [Peter Porker]; Wolverine (cameo); Arsenio Horse (cameo)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story is a parody of the short lived Street-Poet-Ray comic.

[Cover to Marvel Team-Up #89] (Table of Contents: 3)

Nightcrawler; Spider-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks
Joe Rubinstein (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Cutthroat
Reprints

[Cover to Marvel Team-Up #135] (Table of Contents: 4)

Spider-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ron Frenz (signed)
Inks
Al Milgrom (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Ariel [Kitty Pryde]; Edward; Jeff; Morlocks
Reprints

Statement of Ownership (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.3 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of Ownership average # of copies in the past 12 months: 190,535.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
    Cloak and Dagger; New Mutants; Spider-Man
  2. 1. The Hunters and the Hunted [Part One]
    Cloak and Dagger; New Mutants; Spider-Man
  3. 2. Street-Poet-Spider-Ham
    Spider-Ham
  4. 3. [Cover to Marvel Team-Up #89]
    Nightcrawler; Spider-Man
  5. 4. [Cover to Marvel Team-Up #135]
    Spider-Man
  6. 5. Statement of Ownership
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • mcomics
  • Henry Andrews
  • Ruben Cortes
  • Peter Croome
  • Björn Eklöf
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Steve Jenner
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Jim Van Dore