The Amazing Spider-Man #271 [Newsstand]
(December 1985)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.65 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Barcode
0714860245712
Editing
Adam Blaustein (credited) (assistant editor); Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #271 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Mayhem Is a Man Called Manslaughter! (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Ron Frenz
Inks
John Romita
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Manslaughter Marsdale
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Per Ron Frenz on Facebook, John Romita inked this cover, not Joe Rubenstein, as we formerly had. Correction submitted by Mike Fichera and Craig Brasfield via the GCD Error Tracker.

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Whatever Happened to Crusher Hogan? (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Tom DeFalco (credited)
Pencils
Ron Frenz (credited)
Inks
Joe Rubinstein (credited as Josef Rubinstein) (finished art)
Colors
Nel Yomtov (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I'll never forget the first time I laid eyes on the kid.
Feature Logo
Spider-Man [eyes]
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Crusher Hogan; Bobby Chance; Aunt May Parker; Nathan Lubensky; Mary Jane Watson; Lance Bannon; Ned Leeds; Betty Leeds; Manslaughter Marsdale (villain); Madame Fang (villain)
Synopsis
Crusher Hogan is working maintenance at a boxing facility and spinning tall tales of how he helped create Spider-Man when he discovers a plot by one of the owners to take down a fighter. Peter gets a call from May who asks him to keep an eye on Nathan who may be in trouble. Spider-Man gets involved in the problems Crusher Hogan and Bobby Chance are having with Manslaughter. Felling the villain, Spider-Man tells a white lie that confirms his "close" relationship with Hogan, making him a hero. Peter tells Aunt May he lost track of Nathan and finds he was beaten badly and is now in the hospital.
Reprints

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

Spider's Web / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Christopher Priest; Mike Harris
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Chris Hammond, Sal Toci, Chris Hoyt, Danny Lippitt, Julian Imrie, C.K., Tim Dwyer, Tony Garcia, Thomas W. O'Brien, Brooke Rosenbaum, Tony Yee, J. SMith, Eric Pfeffinger.

Also, Jim Owsley and Mike Harris write about the passing of Dan Crespi.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Mayhem Is a Man Called Manslaughter!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. Whatever Happened to Crusher Hogan?
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Spider's Web
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