The Spectacular Spider-Man
#40
[Direct]
(March 1980)
Marvel,
1976 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-12-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Al Milgrom (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has the statement of ownership, management, and circulation.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
This, Then, Is the Tragedy To Begin as Man...And End as Monster!
Spider-Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man
- Reprints
-
in Homem-Aranha (Editora Abril, 1983 series) #17 -
in Spider-Man (Editorial Bruguera, 1980 series) #13 -
in L'Uomo Ragno (Editoriale Corno, 1982 series) #8 -
in Σπάιντερ Μαν [Spider-Man] (Kabanas Hellas, 1977 series) #357 -
in Spider-Man and Hulk Weekly (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #378 (5 June 1980) -
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #255 (13 de marzo de 1985) -
in Essential Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006) - in The Spectacular Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2022 series) #1 (2022)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for The Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 1976 series) #40 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/28/w200/28344.jpg?-7426141448979063995)
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The Terrible Turnabout!
Spider-Man / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Bill Mantlo
- Pencils
- Frank Springer; Walter Simonson (pp. 17-18, uncredited)
- Inks
- Ricardo Villamonte
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Diana Albers
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man (feature); Curt Connors (guest); J. Jonah Jameson (guest);Barney Bushkin (guest); Frightful Four [Electro; Sandman; Trapster; Wizard] (cameos); Aunt May (cameo flashback); Mary Jane (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- Spider-Man cured of being "Spider-Lizard."
- Reprints
-
in Die Spinne Comic - Album (Condor, 1979 series) #7 -
in De spectaculaire Spider-Man (Juniorpress, 1981 series) #6 (1981) [Page 1 half obscured. Color removed from last panel of page 17. Page 18 omitted.] -
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #37 (10 février 1981) [6 pages. Associés au SSM n° 39 pour former un seul épisode de 19 pages/Merged with SSM #39 into a single 19-page story.] - in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #255 (13 de marzo de 1985)
- in Essential Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006)
- in The Spectacular Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2022 series) #1 (2022)
-
Indexer Notes
2019-02-18 in a private message to Bob Bailey and Alex Johnson, Walt Simonson stated that he ghost pencilled the last two pages, as a favor to editor Al Milgrom, when the book was running late.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
This, Then, Is the Tragedy To Begin as Man...And End as Monster!
Spider-Man -
1.
The Terrible Turnabout!
Spider-Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Benjamin Beck
- Björn Eklöf
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Mike Nielsen
- Eric Rom
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Rowe
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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