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Issue: Marvel Tales #168

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Publication Date: October 1984

Issue #168
- Marvel Tales Annual
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Issues: #168 of 289 Issues (563 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: 06/19/1984

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): Danny Fingeroth (reprint editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #50, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-07-10.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Variants3

Marvel Tales #168 [Direct]

Marvel Tales #168 [CA Cover Price]

Marvel Tales #168 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

Reprinted From3

3 Content Items

reprinted 3 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

Never Step on a Scorpion!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Sam Rosen; ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Spider-Man

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Scorpion [MacDonald Gargan]

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Amazing Spider-Man #29 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1965
was Never Step on a Scorpion! [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Never Step On a Scorpion

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Steve Ditko (plot); Stan Lee (script)

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): Julianna Ferriter

Letterer(s): Sam Rosen

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Spider-Man

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Scorpion [MacDonald Gargan]; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant; Ned Leeds; Frederick Foswell; Aunt May Parker

Synopsis: Scorpion breaks free from jail and plans on killing both Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Amazing Spider-Man #29 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1965
was Never Step on a Scorpion! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 20

Scorpion

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): Julianna Ferriter ?

Letterer(s): Sam Rosen

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Spider-Man

Character(s): Scorpion

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1965
was The Scorpion [Character Profile on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Danny Fingeroth

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Marvel Mails

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Includes a segment, Post Office of the Past, which reprints some original letters on this issues story and an editorial explaining how the process of how the story was reprinted without access to the original proofs(this marked the first time Amazing Spider-Man # 29 was reprinted.)