The Amazing Spider-Man #243 [Direct]
(August 1983)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-05-03
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief); Eliot R. Brown (credited as Eliot Brown) (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

Options! (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
John Romita Jr. (signed as J.R. JR.)
Inks
John Beatty (signed as BEATTY)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mary Jane Watson; Amy Powell; Universal Liberation Army
Reprints
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Options! (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Roger Stern (credited)
Pencils
John Romita Jr. (credited)
Inks
Dave Simons (credited)
Colors
Bob Sharen (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Universal Liberation Army (villain, introduction); Felicia Hardy [Black Cat]; Mary Jane Watson; Amy Powell; Lance Bannon; Curt Connors [Lizard]; Ben Urich; Morris Sloan; Roger Hochberg
Reprints
Keywords
Empire State University

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

Star Frontiers; TSR Hobbies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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

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

Script
Tom DeFalco
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?; typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Mr. DeFalco: Thank you...
Characters
The Watcher [Uatu]

Indexer Notes

Letters from David Patterson, Sarah Purvience, Kevin Vicks, Bryan Good, and Gary Glover; house ad for The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Options!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. ["Scottie, the score is tied, time has run out, but you've got two foul shots."]
    Cracker Jack
  3. 2. Options!
    Spider-Man
  4. 3. ["...from the very center of the great spiral galaxy..."]
    Star Frontiers; TSR Hobbies
  5. 4. ["If you knew sushi..."]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist
  6. 5. ["Mr. DeFalco: Thank you..."]
    Spider's Web
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