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Issue: Marvel Tales #17
Publication Date: November 1968
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Issues: #17 of 289 Issues (612 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 08/13/1968
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#3-33 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Spidey Battles the Clown and His Masters of Menace!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Circus of Crime [Clown; Flying Gambonis [Luigi Gambonno; Ernesto Gambonno]; Human Canonball; Princess Python]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2007
as Spidey Battles the Clown and His Masters of Menace! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Mighty Thor Omnibus #1 [Direct] published January 2010
as Marvel Tales Annual #1, Marvel Tales #3-27, and Special Marvel Edition #1-2 Cover Reprints [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: ¡Si éste es mi Destino...! #[nn] published June 2014
as El Spiderman de Ditko [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #22 published March 1965
was The Clown and His Masters of Menace! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Includes images from interior stories and staff credits for Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, Sharon Kay, John Verpoorten and Morrie Kuramoto.
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The Clown, and His Masters of Menace!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Ringmaster; Masters of Menace [the Clown [Elliot Franklin]; the Great Gambonnos [Ernesto and Luigi Gambonno]; the Human Cannonball [Jack Pulver]; Princess Python [Zelda DuBois]]; Liz Allan; Flash Thompson; Betty Brant; J. Jonah Jameson; Mrs. Van Der Twilliger; Aunt May Parker
Synopsis: After being released from prison, the Circus of Crime decides they no longer need the Ringmaster and become the Masters of Menace and plan an art heist.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #22 published March 1965
was The Clown, and His Masters of Menace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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The Human Torch Meets... "Captain America"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Captain America [Carl Zante; also as The Acrobat]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Doris Evans; Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo)
Synopsis: The Human Torch is upstaged by the return of Captain America, but the Torch realizes that it is his old enemy the Acrobat in disguise and defeats him.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #114 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1963
was The Human Torch Meets... "Captain America" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: X-449
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Giants Walk the Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Dr. Donald Blake]; Odin; Balder; Heimdall; Surtur; Skagg; Loki; Enchantress; Executioner; Don Blake; Jane Foster
Synopsis: Odin comes to Earth to settle the matter of Thor's love for Jane Foster. At the same time, Loki frees Skagg, the Storm Giant and Surtur so that he never has relinquish the power over Asgard. Thor, Balder and Odin defeat the giants and Loki is punished.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #104 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1964
was Giants Walk the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-636

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