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Issue: The Amazing Spider-Man #82
Publication Date: March 1970
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Issues: #82 of 443 Issues (968 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/16/1969
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; #200 square bound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as/ in another Issue.
reprinted 6 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagEl Asombroso Hombre Araña #76 published October 1981 as Ahí Viene Electro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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And Then Came Electro!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Electro [Max Dillon]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEl Asombroso Hombre Araña #76 published October 1981
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]recolored
In Content Item: FlagThe Essential Spider-Man #4 [unnamed variant] published December 2000
as And Then Came Electro! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHIP Classics #19156 published ?
as En toen kwam Electro! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: John Romita stated regarding Marie Severin, "Mirthful Mistress of Comics that Marie drew the cover." It is believed that Marie inked the backgrounds on her own, with Romita inking the Electro and Spider-Man figures.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger (photo); Joe Weider (photo)
First Line: I put 2 full inches on my arms - 3 inches on my chest and trimmed 4 inches off my waist in just 7 weeks...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for the "Weider System" of body building.
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And Then Came Electro!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mary Jane Watson; Anna Watson (Mary Jane’s aunt); J. Jonah Jameson; Electro [Max Dillon] (origin recap); Captain George Stacy; Flash Thompson; Harry Osborn; Robbie Robertson; Marvin (talk show host)
First Line: Weary and dejected, a brooding youth sits motionless in the silence of his room...
Synopsis: Peter decides that it would be good for his public image to go on a TV talk show. Unfortunately he chooses a network where Max Dillon [Electro] works. In collusion with Jameson, Electro attacks Spider-Man live on stage. Spider-Man defeats him, but it is a Pyrrhic victory; Peter is as beat up as Max.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Tales #63 published November 1975
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Annual #1974 published January 1973
as And Then Came Electro! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #[nn] published January 1979
as And then Came Electro! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Essential Spider-Man #4 [unnamed variant] published December 2000
as And Then Came Electro! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: The "Midnight Talk Show" host, Marvin, is modeled after Merv Griffin (with his co-host modeled after Arthur Treacher). Marie Severin redrew their faces (pencils and inks) on pages 14 and 15.

There is a great two-panel scene where the web-head - in Peter-civvies with a bag on his head - swings into a laundromat to wash his costume in preparation for the show.
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes an ad for Marvelmania International posters and decals. .
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Incredible Items and Inconceivable Info of Inestimable Importance!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes Stan's Soapbox, Items, and an ad for Sgt. Fury #75.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man; Human Torch
First Line: Dear Stan, John R., John B., Jim and Sam,...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Dan Barrett, Stan Reynolds, Jay Richardson, Jeffrey Morgan, Dan Dlugonski, Christine Cassello, and Marc De Matteis; includes two panels reproduced from a previous issue and Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: 204pc. Revolutionary War soldiers set
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for plastic toy soldiers.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Now you can finish high school at home
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for the Academy for Home Study.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Do you have art talent worth developing?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad for the Famous Artists School.

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