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Issue Details

Issue #145
Published December 1988
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50GBP
Pages 36
Editing Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief); Jim Salicrup; Glenn Herdling (assistant editor)

Cover Details - "...And It Gets Worse!"

Characters Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
Reprinted in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #99

Cover Details - "J.C. Penney Variant"

Genre Superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
Notes [information taken from the STL Gallery and Roger Perez with permission from James Jobe]. Variant cover is a 1992 / 1993 J.C. Penney Marvel "Vintage Pack" reprint. All the issues in the J.C. Penney MVP set have common identifying characteristics. The most obvious is that all have a swinging Spider-Man in the UPC. There is also a blank under the issue number in the price box where the regular edition has the UK price. Secondly, the indicia clearly states Second Printing at the end. Lastly, they all have the same ads from 1992 and back cover which differ from the original printings. The back cover has an X-Men card ad with Wolverine bursting out of it.

22 page Spider-Man story "The Boomerang Return"

Characters Spider-Man; Boomerang; Joe (Robbie) Robertson; Cynthia Bernhammer (intro); Randy Robertson; Ben Urich; Mary Jane Parker; J. Jonah Jameson; Louis Baxter III; Kristy Watson (intro)
Synopsis Spider-Man fights Boomerang in San Diego; Robbie Robertson decides to plead guilty; Mary Jane's cousin arrives in New York
Genre superhero
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Rick Parker
Reprinted in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #99

1 page letters page "Spectacular Spider-Mail"

Letters Typeset