Spider-Woman #8 [Regular Edition]

(November 1978)

The Man Who Could Not Die! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Woman / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Marv Wolfman (credited)

Pencils

Carmine Infantino (credited)

Inks

Al Gordon (credited)

Colors

Françoise Mouly (credited as F. Mouly)

Letters

John Costanza (credited as Costanza)

Job Number

LG51

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Outside, the wind whipped past the tiny cabin,

Feature Logo

The Mysterious Spider-Woman!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Jerry Hunt (flashback); Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew] (also in flashback); Samuel Davis (introduction, also in flashback, death)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Jessica comes across a man who is seemingly immortal, yet desperately wishes to die.

Reprints

• in Spiderwoman (Juniorpress, 1982 series) #3 [pages 4-6 omitted]
• in Tarantella (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1984 series) #3/1984
• in Spider-Woman (Pocket Books, 1979 series) #83026-0 (September 1979)
• in La Mujer Araña (Novedades, 1982 series) #8 (Mayo 13 de 1982)
• in Die Spinne Comic - Taschenbuch (Condor, 1979 series) #22 (1984)
• in Tarantella - Edderkoppkvinnen (Atlantic Forlag, 1984 series) #3/1984 ([august] 1984)
• in Essential Spider-Woman (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005) [black and white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Spider-Woman (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 (2015)
• in Spider-Woman : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2021 series) #1977-1978 (avril 2021)

Keywords

curse; immortality; Revolutionary War

The Suit! (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Woman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Marv Wolfman (credited)

Pencils

Carmine Infantino (credited)

Inks

Al Gordon (credited)

Colors

Françoise Mouly (credited as Francoise M.)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gunther Malone is a mass of tingling nerves that move him ever on.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew]; Gunther Malone (death); Marcus Evanier (introduction); Linda Evanier (introduction); Bill; Jake Rawley; Ziggy Kynd; Howard Ashley; Kingpin (?)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

A crook is killed in his best suit. But the suit is not done yet.

Reprints

• in Spiderwoman (Juniorpress, 1982 series) #3
• in Tarantella (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1984 series) #3/1984
• in Spider-Woman (Pocket Books, 1979 series) #83026-0 (September 1979)
• in La Mujer Araña (Novedades, 1982 series) #8 (Mayo 13 de 1982)
• in Die Spinne Comic - Taschenbuch (Condor, 1979 series) #22 (1984)
• in Tarantella - Edderkoppkvinnen (Atlantic Forlag, 1984 series) #3/1984 ([august] 1984)
• in Essential Spider-Woman (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005) [black and white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Spider-Woman (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 (2015)
• in Spider-Woman : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2021 series) #1977-1978 (avril 2021)

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

Venom Blasts / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Do not despair, folks. Our regular letters...

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Matt Levin, Ed Via, and James Slaughter. Placed between pages 1 and 2 of the previous sequence.