The Amazing Spider-Man #194 [Direct]

(July 1979)

Never Let the Black Cat Cross Your Path! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Marv Wolfman

Pencils

Keith Pollard (breakdowns); Frank Giacoia (finished art)

Inks

Frank Giacoia

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

John Costanza

Job Number

LG422

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Black Cat (Introduction); the burglar; Mysterio; Aunt May Parker; Betty Brant; Ned Leeds; Robbie Robertson; J. Jonah Jameson; Barney Bushkin; Harry Osborn; Flash Thompson; Boris Korpse; April Maye

Reprints

• in Die Spinne (Condor, 1980 series) #41
which is reprinted
• in Die Spinne (Condor, 1987 series) #40
• in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #3/1981 (1981)
• in Edderkoppen (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #3/1981 ([mars] 1981)
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #148 (5 avril 1982)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #190 (14 de diciembre de 1983)
• in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1987 ([mars] 1987)
• in Spindelmannen (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1987 ([Mars] 1987)
• in Spider-Man vs. The Black Cat (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
• in Spider-Man: Return of the Burglar (Marvel, 2012 series) [premiere edition] (2012)
• in True Believers: King in Black - Black Cat (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (January 2021)

Pete Rose Batting Practice (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Turco; Batting Practice / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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

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

The Thing and the Ultimate Weapon! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Hostess Fruit Pies; The Thing / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Spider's Web / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Marv Wolfman

Pencils

Dave Cockrum; Keith Pollard

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

John Costanza; typeset; ?

Indexer Notes

Letter from Joseph Kary and Short Comments Dept., including a discussion of the creation of the Black Cat. It is accompanied by the original pencil sketch design for the Black Cat by Dave Cockrum, as well as a rejected cover for this issue drawn by Keith Pollard. The inker's name is too small to make out (but may be Steve Leialoha). This sequence added 2005 by Steven Tice.