Marvel Tales #154 [Direct]
(August 1983)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-04-19
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 (reprint editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #24, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-05-10.
This issue has variants:

Spider-Man Battles Daredevil! (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Featuring: The eerie menace of the Ringmaster!!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Ringmaster [Maynard Tiboldt]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Cover has been recolored for this reprint.

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Duel With Daredevil (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Steve Ditko (credited)
Inks
Steve Ditko (credited)
Colors
Bob Sharen (credited as B. Sharen)
Letters
Sam Rosen (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
But why won't you call Mary Jane Watson??
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Circus of Crime [Ringmaster [Maynard Tiboldt]; The Great Gambino]; Aunt May Parker; Karen Page; Foggy Nelson; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant
Synopsis
When the Circus of Crime comes to town, they advertise that Spider-Man will be appearing in an attempt to fill the big top before they rob it. Spider-Man sees the advertisements and decides he will show up. He is hypnotized along with the rest of the audience, but unfortunately for the Circus of Crime, the Daredevil is in attendance and immune to the Ringmaster's hat.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story has been recolored for this reprint. Splash page has been modified (items removed from drawing as well as the job number, credits moved and extended for new colorist).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Marvel Mails / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Tom DeFalco
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from PFC. Michael Mikulousky, Craig Smith, Michael J. Robinson, George A. Williams, and Joe Davis.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Spider-Man Battles Daredevil!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. Duel With Daredevil
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Marvel Mails
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Andrew Krieg
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Jim Van Dore
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