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Issue: The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8

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Publication Date: January 1988

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Issues: #8 of 14 Issues (31 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct Edition

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics

On Sale Date: 07/07/1988

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.25 CAD
£0.50 GBP
$1.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: On sale date from Amazing Heroes #144.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants2

The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8 [Direct Edition]

The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In4

2 Content Items
- Return to Sender [Story on Interior Page(s)]0
- The High Evolutionary Chapter Ten: The Son of Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted 3 times as/in other Issues.

1 Content Item
- The Young Gods Fact Pages! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Content Items (5 total)

The Evolutionary War [Part Ten]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

Return to Sender

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Aunt May Parker (photograph); Gwen Stacy (photograph); Professor Quint

First Line: I always liked cats, but when I was a kid, Aunt May used to tell me...

Synopsis: The return of Gwen Stacy's clone embroils Spider-Man and the Young Gods in the machinations of the High Evolutionary. The Gwen Stacy clone (from Amazing Spider-Man 142, et. al., is revealed not to be a clone, but rather the victim of a genetic virus).

Reprinting

In Issue:

Spider-Man: The Original Clone Saga #[nn] published January 2011

In Issue:

Evolutionary War Omnibus #[nn] [unnamed variant] published January 2011

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 35

Notes: This story is part of the Evolutionary War crossover.
The Evolutionary War continued from The West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1986 series) #3.
The Evolutionary War concludes in Avenger Annual (Marvel, 1967 series) #17.

Opposing Forces

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Synopsis: The Young Gods, investigating a psychic presence near Jerusalem, find a mechanical creature.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

The Young Gods Fact Pages!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Eternals Annual #1 published January 2009
as The Young Gods... Fact Pages! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

The High Evolutionary Chapter Ten: The Son of Earth

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: His real name is Herbert Edgar Wyndham, and at this moment in time...

Synopsis: After devolving himself from godhood, the High Evolutionary creates Counter-Earth and is befriended by Adam Warlock.

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In Issue:

Evolutionary War Omnibus #[nn] [unnamed variant] published January 2011

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Part of a series chronicling the history of the High Evolutionary; story continued from The West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1986 series) #3; story concludes in Avengers Annual (Marvel, 1967 series) #17.