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Issue: Marvel Tales #170
Publication Date: December 1984
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Issues: #170 of 289 Issues (612 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/11/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860247612
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #54, with shipping date of 1984-08-21.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#3-33 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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If This Be My Destiny...

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
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Pages: 1
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If This Be My Destiny

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Harry Osborn (introduction); Gwen Stacy (introduction); Master Planner; Aunt May Parker; Flash Thompson; Dr. Bromwell; Professor Warren; J. Jonah Jameson; Frederick Foswell; Betty Brant; Ned Leeds; Foxy Briggs
Synopsis: Aunt May falls deathly ill on Peter's first day of college. Meanwhile, the Master Planner is stealing scientific gadgets.
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Pages: 20
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Kraven

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Kraven
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes "Post Office of the Past", a feature that reprints a sample of that issues original letters.

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