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Issue: Marvel Tales #168
Publication Date: October 1984
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Issues: #168 of 289 Issues (612 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
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):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #50, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-07-10.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
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Never Step on a Scorpion!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Scorpion [MacDonald Gargan]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe 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
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Never Step On a Scorpion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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: FlagThe 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
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Scorpion

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Scorpion
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1965
was The Scorpion [Character Profile on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose 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.)

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