The Amazing Spider-Man #283 [Newsstand]
(December 1986)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel 25th Anniversary
Barcode
0714860245712
Editing
Adam Blaustein (credited) (assistant editor); Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

...With Foes Like These...! (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Bob Layton (signed as BOB LAYTON)
Inks
Bob Layton (signed as BOB LAYTON)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Game over, webhead!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Absorbing Man; Titania
Reprints

With Foes Like These... (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Tom DeFalco (credited)
Pencils
Ron Frenz (credited)
Inks
Bob Layton (credited) (finisher)
Colors
Bob Sharen (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited); ? [as & CO.]

Feature Logo
Spider-Man [eyes]
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Flash Thompson; Wasp; Kathryn Cushing; Betty Leeds; Ned Leeds; Robbie Robertson; Mary Jane Watson; Absorbing Man; Titania; Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley]; Daniel Kingsley; Dr. Doom (cameo flashback); Mongoose (cameo)
Synopsis
Spider-Man is trolling around town trying to find Flash Thompson but ends up duking it out with Titania and Absorbing Man. Things end in a draw when Absorbing Man threatens to drop an airplane full of passengers and Spider-Man swings away in disgust.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Mongoose's identity revealed in Thor #391.

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

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ...With Foes Like These...!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. With Foes Like These...
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. ["The best-kept secret in comics..."]
    Bullpen Bulletins
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