The Amazing Spider-Man
#171
[35¢]
(August 1977)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860245708
- Editing
- Len Wein
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #171 [30¢].
There exist further variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #171 [35¢]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/806/w200/806761.jpg?1096995177283162450)
![Cover Thumbnail for The Amazing Spider-Man (1963 series) #171 [30¢]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/28/w100/28017.jpg?-4331944630772189271)
![Cover Thumbnail for The Amazing Spider-Man (1963 series) #171 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1089/w100/1089398.jpg?2579058682228987448)
Photon Is Another Name For...?
Spider-Man / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Ross Andru
- Inks
- Mike Esposito; Frank Giacoia
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- Joe Rosen
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Nova [Richard Rider]; Photon [Jason Dean]; A.I.M.; Molten Man; Liz Allan; Harry Osborn; Dr. Ralph Rider; Franklin Risk; Michael Lincoln; Harry Daze; Captain James Steele; Manners (butler; dead)
- Synopsis
- Spider-Man and Nova determine the true identity of Photon and solve the mystery of who killed Nova's uncle.
- Reprints
-
in Super Spider-Man (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #253 (14 December 1977) [Reprints pages 1-9.] -
in Atlantic Special [Atlantic Spesial] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #2 (1978) [minus page 6] -
in Super Special (Winthers Forlag, 1978 series) #2 - Edderkoppen mod Photon (1978) [page 6 removed] -
in Atlantic special (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #2/1978 ([februari] 1978) [1 sida bortredigerad] - in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #12/1978 (1978)
-
in Gli Eterni (Editoriale Corno, 1978 series) #12 (Febbraio 1979) -
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #13 (10 février 1979) [Moins/Minus 1 page] -
in Die Spinne (Condor, 1980 series) #25 (1981) which is reprinted -
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #167 (6 de julio de 1983) -
in Essential Nova (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) [black and white] - in The Essential Spider-Man (Marvel, 1996 series) #8 ([2 May] 2007) [black and white]
- in Nova Classic (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 (2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Nova (Marvel, 1976 series) #12 (August 1977)
[no title indexed]
Spider's Web / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby; ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- John Verpoorten; ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from M.E. Robbins, Mike Nelson, Matt Pierce, and James L. Bleeker; includes house ad for The Eternals series.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
Photon Is Another Name For...?
Spider-Man -
2.
[no title indexed]
Spider's Web -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
Rust Be My Destiny!
Hostess Cup Cakes; Iron Man
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Derek Reinhard
- Peter Croome
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