The Amazing Spider-Man #255 [Newsstand]

(August 1984)

Madness at Maxy's (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Atarisoft / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Even a Ghost Can Fear the Night! (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Tom DeFalco (credited)

Pencils

Ron Frenz (credited)

Inks

Joe Rubinstein (credited as Josef Rubinstein)

Colors

Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Silent as a living shadow, he glides through the night.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Red Ghost (villain); Super Apes (villain); Black Fox (villain); Aunt May Parker (cameo); Nathan Lubensky (cameo); Roderick Kingsley [Hobgoblin] (cameo); Jack O' Lantern [Jason Macendale Jr.] (cameo flashback); Iron Man [James Rhodes] (cameo flashback); Mr. Fantastic (cameo flashback); Invisible Girl (cameo flashback); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo flashback); The Thing (cameo flashback); Black Cat [Felicia Hardy] (cameo flashback); Mamie Muggins

Synopsis

The Black Fox is on his final burglary, the one that will allow him to retire, but unfortunately, he has chosen the residence of the Red Ghost and his Super Apes. The Red Ghost compels the Fox to work with his Apes in carrying out the robbery of a jewelry store to fund his latest invention, the Cosmicizer. Spider-Man intervenes, follows the Apes home and blows up the Ghost's pet project. All but forgotten, the Black Fox merrily makes off with the jewels.

Reprints

• in Die Spinne (Condor, 1980 series) #114
• in Spindelmannen (Semic, 1984 series) #1/1987 ([Januari] 1987)
• in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #1/1987 (uke 2 1987)
• in L'Uomo Ragno (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #43 (28 Febbraio 1990)
• in Obras Maestras (Planeta DeAgostini, 1991 series) #5 - Spiderman: La Saga del Traje Alienígena (Julio 1992)
• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #269 (January 1993)
• in Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Marvel, 2007 series) ([March] 2007)
• in Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)

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

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Spider's Web / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Danny Fingeroth

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

And so it begins.

Indexer Notes

Letters from Paul McIntier, Joe Kotnik, Elizabeth Holden, Steven A. Stewart, Marc Edelstein, Mark Howarth, Michael W. Williamson, Tobin Walls, and Wilfred D. DeVoe.