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Issue: The Amazing Spider-Man #257
Publication Date: October 1984
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Issues: #257 of 443 Issues (968 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 06/12/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.30 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #49, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-07-03.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In11
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Puma
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagObras Maestras #5 published July 1992
In Issue: FlagA Csodálatos Pókember #25 published ?
In Content Item: FlagL'Uomo Ragno #48 published May 1990
as Attento Agli Artigli Del Puma! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Beware the Claws of Puma!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Black Cat [Felicia Hardy]; Jenna Taylor; Mary Jane Watson; The Rose (villain); Puma [Thomas Fireheart] (villain); Kingpin (villain); Arranger (villain); Hobgoblin [Ned Leeds] (cameo)
First Line: Spider-Man is still helpless!
Synopsis: Puma is about to eviscerate Spider-Man but the Black Cat swings in to the rescue. Spidey and the Cat make it back to his apartment. The Black Cat takes off but Mary Jane shows up to hang out. As the Puma strikes Peter pushes Mary Jane out the door. Spidey and Puma fight but the assassin breaks off the attack when he witnesses Spider-Man save civilians. The Kingpin discovers that the Rose has put out an unauthorized contract on Spidey's life. Fireheart returns home. Hobgoblin contacts Rose. Peter finds Mary Jane still at his apartment where she tells him that she already knows he is Spider-Man.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagObras Maestras #5 published July 1992
In Issue: FlagMarvel Tales #271 [Direct] published March 1993
In Issue: FlagSpider-Man: Birth of Venom #[nn] published March 2007
In Issue: FlagSpider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga #1 published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagEdderkoppen #6/1987 published June 1987
as Pumas klør [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Uomo Ragno #48 published May 1990
as Attento Agli Artigli Del Puma! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Jim Starlin tried to kill me!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Hype Box; Check List.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Scott Erbe, Cale Rightmire, Ron Lamarre, Russell G. Smidt & Daniel J. Van Oss, Craig Shaw, and Michael Tisdale.

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