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Issue: Spider-Man Comics Weekly #55
Publication Date: March 1974
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Issues: #55 of 157 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel UK
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics International Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: £0.06 GBP
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Content Items: 11 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour Cover; Black & White Interior; Some Colour Interiors
Dimensions: British Magazine Size; 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 8.5 inches" x 11"
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Character(s): Spider-Man; Spider-Slayer
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Pages: 1
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Attack of the Spider-Slayer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (grey tones)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Professor Smythe; Spider-Slayer; Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Zabu; Betty Brant; J. Jonah Jameson; Captain George Stacy; John Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Gwen Stacy; Harry Osborn; Ned Leeds; Robbie Robertson
First Line: Hunted by Ka-Zar -- besieged by press and police
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Second part of story with a new splash page made up of the last panel from page 11 of the original story (Peter Parker removing his Spider-Man tunic) enlarged with some added art and with a new title and credits added. (Credits given here as shown)
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Showdown in a Strange Land!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (grey tones)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gregori; Vukov; The Mad Barbarian (introduction); The Actor [Sir Reginald] (introduction)
First Line: No, this startling scene hasn't happened yet, pilgrim --
Synopsis: A Soviet spymaster sends a master of disguise to steal the design of Tony Stark's latest weapon. The Actor steals the plans and learns Iron Man's secret identity, but Iron Man regains the plans and tricks the communists into killing their own agent.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Red Barbarian name changed to Red Barbarian.

Second part of story with a new splash page made up of the original cover illustration with the new title replacing the masthead and with credits added.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The web and the hammer
Character(s): Spider-Man
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes three panels taken from Spider-Man stories.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): The Thing
First Line: Here we go...its pocket money time!
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Disclose Notes: The Thing announcing answers to pocket money quiz and name of winner.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Advert for Charles Atlas course with order form and two adverts for stamp collecting sets.
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Hercules Walks Among Us!

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Colorist(s): ? (grey tones)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor; Hercules; Odin; Balder; Heimdall; Jane Foster; Demon; Willie; Charlie
First Line: Odin hath spoken -- and no more shall Thor, God of thunder, set foot upon Earth!
Synopsis: Thor fights the Demon to recover a Norn Stone. Afterwards, Thor returns to Asgard, only to face the wrath of Odin who has learned that Thor has revealed his secret identity to Jane Foster.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Second part of story with a new splash page made up of the last panel of page 9 with the title above it. No credits added.
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The Jaws of the Dragon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (grey tones)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Thor; Odin; Balder the Brave; Hogun; Utgard Dragon (introduction, death)
First Line: Even as Thor's mutinous crew of argonauts heads into the dreaded Pillars of Utgard on the uncharted Sea of Fear...
Synopsis: In Asgard, Odin has a premonition concerning Ragnarok. Meanwhile, Balder saves his fellow crewmates from certain death by blowing his horn. The effects of his actions are that the Dragon of Utgard is destroyed and the ship has safe passage.
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Disclose Notes: Odinsword Quest Part 6
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No. 17

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Pen pals swap shop
First Line: Waiting for you in this grand opening of the PEN PALS SWAP SHOP could be the very thing that you've been yearning for all your life.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Small ads type page where readers write in with items they wish to swap with other readers.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Avengers
Character(s): The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]]
First Line: Another Marvel Masterpiece Now on Sale!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advert for the Avengers UK edition #24 with cover reproduction. Top half of back cover.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk; Maximus the Mad
First Line: The only comics weekly that features both
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advert for Mighty World of Marvel #74 with cover reproduction.
Bottom half of back cover

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