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Issue: Adventures in Reading Starring the Amazing Spider-Man #1
Publication Date: January 1990
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 1990
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.00 USD
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Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: giveaway
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Spider-Man; Dwane; Mike; Cara
Spidey Travels Through Time and Space... ...In the Battle Against Illiteracy!
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The first three covers of issue v1#1 have the same artwork by Jon Bogdanove and John Romita. The fourth cover has different artwork by José Delbo, with a "Squirt" logo in the upper left-hand corner.
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Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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opinion
Spider-Man
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Inside front cover.

The first printing, Baltimore variant, and Squirt variant depict Spider-Man holding a letter from First Lady Barbara Bush (dated June 1, 1990).

The Houston Chronicle variant depicts Spider-Man swinging using two hands, "Zap!" in large letters, and "Houston Chronicle/King Features/Hearst Corporation" (same artwork as the back cover of the first printing).
Adventures in Reading

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Spider-Man; The Troglodyte (introduction); Dwane; Mike; Cara; Professor Summerlee; Challenger; Baloo; Akela; Mowgli; Bagheera; Shere Khan; Curtis; Mark; Bryon; Angela; Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert; Rebecca; King John; Ivanhoe
Yo, Dwane -- you tired of this basketball garbage?
Spider-Man appears in front of a library in pursuit of a villain called the Troglodyte. Troglodyte has stolen an invention called a transporter. The transporter sends Spider-man and three kids through the fictional worlds of "The Lost World", "The War of the Worlds", "The Jungle Book", "That Was Then, This Is Now", and "Ivanhoe".
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Miscellaneous
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Spider-Man; Dwane; Mike; Cara
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Word games including: Leftover Letters; Get Book Smart!; Look For the Book; Breaking the Code
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Spider-Man; Dwane; Mike; Cara
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Information on getting a Library Card, using the Library, using a bookstore, the National Literacy Hotline, Literacy Volunteers and RIF (Reading Is Fundamental).
Further Adventures in Reading

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Inside back cover.

Bibliography of the novels encountered in the main story in this book. Answers to the book's puzzles.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Spider-Man
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Back cover.

The first printing depicts Spider-Man swinging using two hands, "Zap!" in large letters.

The Houston Chronicle variant depicts Spider-Man swinging using one hand, saying "Take it from Spidey--".

The Baltimore variant depicts Spider-Man visiting the Mayor of Baltimore.

The Squirt variant depicts Spider-Man swinging using one hand, saying "Take it from Spidey and Squirt...", Squirt logo (same artwork as Houston Chronicle variant).

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