(1993)

Marvel, 1990 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.00 FREE
Pages
20
On-sale Date
1993-01-31
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Editing
Glenn Herdling (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor In chief)

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "Adventures in Reading Starring the Amazing Spider-Man". Cover title is "The Amazing Spider-Man Adventures in Reading".

This issue's indicia includes the following text: "This comic was produced and developed by Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. in cooperation with The Baltimore City Literacy Corporation and The Baltimore Office of Promotion."

On sale date from the 1993 Library of Congress copyright records (cocatalog.loc.gov).
This issue is a variant of Adventures in Reading Starring the Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1990 series) #v2#1 [Giant Foods]. There exist further variants:

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

Pencils
Alan Kupperberg
Inks
Alan Kupperberg
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man; Dwane; Mike; Cara

Indexer Notes

All covers of issue v2#1 have the same artwork, however each has a different logo in the bottom left-hand corner. The logo on this issue is "The Bon Marché".

Cover Thumbnail for Adventures in Reading Starring the Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1990 series) #v2#1 [Bon Marché] Cover Thumbnail for Adventures in Reading Starring the Amazing Spider-Man (1990 series) #v2#1 [Giant Foods] Cover Thumbnail for Adventures in Reading Starring the Amazing Spider-Man (1990 series) #v2#1 [Orange Julius]
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Characters
Spider-Man

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Giant Foods variant depicts Spider-Man holding letters from Washington D.C. and from the Baltimore Mayor (dated December 23, 1991).

The Orange Julius variant depicts Spider-Man on top of an Orange Julius logo.

The Bon Marché variant depicts Spider-Man holding letters about The Bon Marché and about Kidsworld Contests.

[Adventures in Reading] (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Man / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Louise Simonson
Pencils
Alan Kupperberg (page 1); Jon Bogdanove (pages 2-16)
Inks
Alan Kupperberg (page 1); Hilary Barta (pages 2-16)
Colors
Evelyn Stein
Letters
Janice Chiang
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Bad news, gang!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man; Dwane; Mike; Cara; the Troglodyte

Indexer Notes

This issue takes the 28 page story from vol. 1, no. 1 and edits it down to 16 pages. A new splash page by Alan Kupperberg is added.

The Giant Foods version of this story has no page numbers; the Orange Julius and Bon Marché versions do.

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

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Travel the realms of fiction with...
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. [Adventures in Reading]
    Spider-Man
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
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