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Issue: The Amazing Spider-Man #638
Publication Date: September 2010
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Issues: #638 of 267 Issues (879 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: 2nd Printing, Variant Cover
Rating: Rated A
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/25/2010
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 75960604716163841
Price: $3.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Rated A
Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
5 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This second printing was meant to be in shops by August 25, 2010 but this did not seem to happen and there seems to be conflicting reports around what actually occurred.

Anecdotally it was suggested that the second printing was abandoned/recalled as a bad idea: The "O" on the cover was meant to be the first of three with the "M", "I" and "T" to follow possibly as second prints to each of the four issues in the storyline. (Note: O.M.I.T. spells out the initials of the storyline and is also a reference to how Peter Parker's and Mary Jane Watson's wedding was OMITted from the continuity, according to Joe Quesada).

Another explanation (from multiple sources but likely originating from Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics) was that there was a truck wreck where most of the second prints were destroyed with only around 800 surviving, which were liquidated later by Diamond with one dealer buying the lot (and Chuck apparently bought some from him).

Note that copies (likely a small number) also seem to have made it across to the pond to the UK but Marvel did not print more copies of the second print for the North American market.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Credits and Indicia

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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One Moment In Time Chapter One: Something Old

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man (also in flashback); Mary Jane Watson (also in flashback); Eddie Muerte (flashback); Thomas Hepburn (flashback); Harry Osborn (flashback); Flash Thompson (flashback); Nahlah (flashback); Jill (flashback); Jonah Jameson (flashback); Anna Watson (flashback); May Parker (flashback); Marla Madison (flashback)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
Disclose Notes: This story makes up pages 1-6, 11-16, 19, 24-26, 30-36, 38-42 of the whole story. The pages drawn by Quesada are a framing sequence for a flashback drawn by Paolo Rivera and weaving around 14 pages reprinted from Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #21 [pages 7-10, 17-18, 20-23, 27-29, 37 of the whole story]
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man; Electro; Eddie Muerte; Mary Jane Watson; Harry Osborn; Flash Thompson; Lars; Bruce; May Parker; Anna Watson; Willi Smith; Joe Robertson; Jonah Jameson; Marla Madison
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: These are pages 7-10, 17-18, 20-23, 27-29, 37 of the whole story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man; Brain; Bull; Green Goblin
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2

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