Marvel Tales #178 [Direct]
(August 1985)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.65 USD; 0.30 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-04-16
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Christopher Priest (editor); Keith Williams (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #70.
This issue has variants:

Spidey and the Green Goblin (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
John Romita
Inks
John Romita
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Green Goblin [Norman Osborn]
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How Green Was My Goblin! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
John Romita
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek
Editing
Stan Lee
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Aunt May Parker; Anna Watson; Flash Thompson; Gwen Stacy; Harry Osborn; Ned Leeds; J. Jonah Jameson; Green Goblin [Norman Osborn] (identity revealed, villain); Professor Stromm (cameo flashback)
Synopsis
Peter heads to the doctor with the sniffles and learns that Aunt May's health is very fragile. Spidey is roped into tangling with a bunch of goons who zap him with a mysterious gas. Not realizing that the gas has weakened his spider sense, he changes into Peter Parker under the watchful gaze of the Green Goblin. The Goblin confronts Spidey outside of his home and captures him as Peter is worried that Aunt May might be overcome by the commotion. Trussed up in the Goblin's lair, Peter is shocked when the Goblin takes off his mask and reveals himself to be Norman Osborn.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Post Office of the Past / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Stan and John, Spider-Man, Spider-Man,...
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Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Mike Glicksohn, John Taylor, Robert Cox, Alvin Pogeler, Terry Masek and John Lewis.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Spidey and the Green Goblin
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. How Green Was My Goblin!
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. ["Dear Stan and John, Spider-Man, Spider-Man,..."]
    Post Office of the Past
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  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
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