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Issue: The Amazing Spider-Man #255
Publication Date: August 1984
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Issues: #255 of 443 Issues (968 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 05/01/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860245708
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #45, with shipping date of 1984-04-10.
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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
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Even A Ghost... ...Can Fear the Night!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Red Ghost; Super Apes
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Madness at Maxy's

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Even a Ghost Can Fear the Night!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Red Ghost (villain); Super Apes (villain); Black Fox (villain); Aunt May Parker (cameo); Nathan Lubensky (cameo); Roderick Kingsley [Hobgoblin] (cameo); Jack O' Lantern [Jason Macendale Jr.] (cameo flashback); Iron Man [James Rhodes] (cameo flashback); Mr. Fantastic (cameo flashback); Invisible Girl (cameo flashback); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo flashback); The Thing (cameo flashback); Black Cat [Felicia Hardy] (cameo flashback); Mamie Muggins
First Line: Silent as a living shadow, he glides through the night.
Synopsis: The Black Fox is on his final burglary, the one that will allow him to retire, but unfortunately, he has chosen the residence of the Red Ghost and his Super Apes. The Red Ghost compels the Fox to work with his Apes in carrying out the robbery of a jewelry store to fund his latest invention, the Cosmicizer. Spider-Man intervenes, follows the Apes home and blows up the Ghost's pet project. All but forgotten, the Black Fox merrily makes off with the jewels.
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Imagine! Oreo Cookies Everywhere!!

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[untitled]

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First Line: Hey, Kids! Look what's coming your way! Free Marvel comics!
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Classified Ads

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[untitled]

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First Line: Your choice 80 cents each plus postage
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[untitled]

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First Line: A micro-world of wonderment awaits you in Micronauts
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Doug Sulipa's Comic World

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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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First Line: A tragic mistake...!
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[untitled]

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First Line: And so it begins.
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Paul McIntier, Joe Kotnik, Elizabeth Holden, Steven A. Stewart, Marc Edelstein, Mark Howarth, Michael W. Williamson, Tobin Walls, and Wilfred D. DeVoe.
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Bonus Certificate from Marvel!

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Amazing High Adventure

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For a vid time call 1-900-720-1234

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