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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published September 2007
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.75 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Warren Simons; Alejandro Arbona (assistant)

Cover Details - "Back in Black"

Characters Venom; Aunt May Parker
Genre Superhero
Pencils Clayton Crain
Inks Clayton Crain
Colors Clayton Crain

1 page Spider-Man recap "Recap"

Genre Superhero
Script Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ?
Pencils Lee Weeks (breakdowns); Stefano Gaudiano (finishes)
Inks Stefano Gaudiano
Colors Matt Milla
Letters typeset
Notes Recap of story-to-date.

23 page Spider-Man story "The Last Temptation of Eddie Brock, Part 2 of 2"

Characters Peter Parker [Spider-Man]; Mary Jane Watson-Parker; Aunt May Parker; Aunt Anna Watson; Felicia Hardy [Black Cat]; Madame Web [Cassandra Webb]; Nurse Sims (dies); VILLAINS: Venom [Eddie Brock]; Venom (hallucination)
Synopsis Eddie Brock is a man consumed. By his cancer, by demons real and imagined, by his past as the deadly villain Venom. While his arch-foe Peter Parker and a group of his family and friends hold a séance conducted by Madame Web to try and reach the comatose May, Brock will set in motion a plan that will either redeem all his past wrongs or damn him to everlasting suffering... Which will he choose? [per solicitation]
Genre Superhero
Script Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Pencils Rick Hoberg (breakdowns); Stefano Guadiano (finishes); Clayton Crain (seance art)
Inks Stefano Gaudiano; Clayton Crain (seance art)
Colors Matt Milla; Clayton Crain (seance art)
Letters Cory Petit of Virtual Calligraphy [as VC's Cory Petit]

1 page Spider-Man illustration "Sensational Spider-Man #40"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (black costume); Mary Jane Watson-Parker
Genre Superhero
Pencils Clayton Crain (signed)
Inks Clayton Crain (signed)
Colors Clayton Crain (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Preview of cover to SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #40.