Spidey Super Stories #42 [Direct]
(September 1979)

Marvel, 1974 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1979-06-05
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics [starburst]
Editing
Deborah November (editor); A. J. Hays (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #169.
This issue has variants:

Kingpin Strikes! (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Sal Buscema
Inks
Frank Giacoia
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Rosen ?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Kingpin

Indexer Notes

Sal Buscema pencils and Giacoia inks per Nick Caputo, Feb 2011. Previous indexer credited Win Mortimer.

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The Kingpin (Table of Contents: 1)

Kingpin / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jim Salicrup
Pencils
Win Mortimer ?
Inks
Owen McCarron
Letters
Ray Holloway
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Kingpin

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

Kingpin For President (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Man / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Jim Salicrup
Pencils
Win Mortimer
Inks
Owen McCarron
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Kingpin
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Three writers are listed in credits listed assuming they are in order by story.

Spidey's Super Webbing (Table of Contents: 3)

Spider-Man / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jim Salicrup ?
Pencils
Win Mortimer
Inks
Owen McCarron
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
Reprints

By the Book (Table of Contents: 4)

Spider-Man and his friends from The Electric Company / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Michael Siporin
Pencils
Win Mortimer
Inks
Owen McCarron
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Valerie; Magic Wanda

Blackout (Table of Contents: 5)

Spider-Man / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Julie Mishkin
Pencils
Win Mortimer
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Electro; Aunt May Parker
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Wit of the Web-Slinger / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jeff Posner
Pencils
Win Mortimer
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
Letters
Ray Holloway
Genre
humor; superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

Light Up Your Life with Spidey Super Stories! (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Marvel Subscriptions / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Kingpin Strikes!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. The Kingpin
    Kingpin
  3. 2. Kingpin For President
    Spider-Man
  4. 3. Spidey's Super Webbing
    Spider-Man
  5. 4. By the Book
    Spider-Man and his friends from The Electric Company
  6. 5. Blackout
    Spider-Man
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
    The Wit of the Web-Slinger
  8. 7. Light Up Your Life with Spidey Super Stories!
    Marvel Subscriptions
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