Marvel Tales #190 [Newsstand]

(August 1986)

Spider-Man No More! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

John Romita

Inks

Mark Esposito (credited as Mickey Dimeo)

Colors

Andy Yanchus

Letters

Sam Rosen

Editing

Stan Lee

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man [also appears as Peter Parker] (origin recap); Aunt May Parker; Anna May Watson; Harry Osborn; Professor Miles Warren; Gwen Stacy; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant; Mary Jane Watson; Frederick Foswell (villain); Kingpin (villain); The Mob (villain); Johnny Carson (cameo); Ed McMahon (cameo); Uncle Ben Parker (cameo flashback); The Burglar (cameo flashback)

Synopsis

Fearing for his aunt's health and tired of being hounded by Jameson, Peter gives up being Spider-Man and concentrates on being a simple college student. A kid finds the discarded Spidey suit in the trash can and brings it to the Daily Bugle where Jonah proudly puts it on display. Pete's personal life starts looking up but crime increases as the Kingpin gathers the mob under his leadership. Feeling guilty about the crime wave, Peter remembers the lessons taught to him by his uncle's death and decides to become Spider-Man once again.

Reprints

• from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #50 (July 1967)
• in L'Uomo Ragno Classic (Edizioni Star Comics, 1991 series) #15 (Aprile 1992) [La storia è tratta dalla ristampa di "Marvel Tales" (come si riconosce dalla ri-colorazione).]
• in Bring Back the Bad Guys (Marvel, 1998 series) (1998)

Indexer Notes

Mike Esposito's alias Mickey Demeo was misspelled as Dimeo in this issue.

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

Post Office of the Past / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Christopher Priest

Pencils

John Romita (illustrations)

Inks

? (illustrations)

Colors

? (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Owsley talks about the next issue's story, reprinting The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1962 series) #97, Stan Lee's anti-drug story which was not approved by the Comics Code Authority,

Letters from Robert Lax and Janet Schreiber are reprinted from The Amazing Spider-Man #53.