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Issue Details

Issue #540
Published May 2007
Cover Price 2.99 USD
Pages 40
Editing Axel Alonso; Michael O'Connor (Assistant)

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Garney
Inks Ron Garney
Letters Typeset
Notes Cover sports Back in Black trade dress.

1 page Spider-Man recap "Recap"

Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Garney
Inks Ron Garney
Letters Typeset

23 page Spider-Man story "Back in Black Part 2"

Characters Spider-Man; GUESTS: Mary Jane Parker; Aunt May Parker; VILLAINS: Kingpin; Jake Martino
Synopsis Aunt May has lapsed into a coma and Peter, back in his black Spider-Man costume, performs a methodical and ruthless search for the sniper who shot her; He tracks down Jake Martino to the train station and beats him close to death trying to find who hired him; Before he can get any answers, however, Jake is shot by an unknown assailant; Spidey rides Jake's ambulance to the very hospital where Aunt May is being treated and gets the bad news from MJ that she is probably not going to survive; Peter senses a spider tracer close by and finds the man who shot Jake in front of the hospital talking on a cell phone; He takes the phone away and finds the real villain on the other end of the line--the Kingpin.
Genre superhero
Script J. Michael Straczynski
Pencils Ron Garney
Inks Bill Reinhold
Colors Matt Milla
Letters Virtual Calligraphy's Cory Petit

1 page Spider-Man illustration "Next Issue"

Characters Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Garney
Inks Ron Garney
Letters Typeset
Notes Presents full page cover art for next issue.