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Issue Details

Issue #257
Published May 1998
Cover Price 1.99
Pages 36
Editing Bob Harras (editor-in-chief), Ralph Macchio, Matt Hicks (assistant editor)
Notes Outer cover (not available on all copies); cover title is The Spectacular Prodigy 1

Cover Details

Characters Prodigy
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks John Romita
Letters Comicraft
Notes Outer cover (not available on all copies); cover title is The Spectacular Prodigy 1

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks John Romita
Colors Atomic Paintbrush
Notes Inner cover; cover title is The Spectacular Spider-Man 257

22 page Prodigy story "Prodigy (Identity Crisis [Part 1])"

Characters Prodigy (Peter Parker), Jack O'Lantern II, Conundrum (intro), Norman Osborn, Mary Jane Parker, Flash Thompson, J. Jonah Jameson, Billy Walters, Betty Brant, Anna Watson, Hazram Chaliz, Shanaz Chaliz, Tabriaz Chaliz
Synopsis Peter Parker becomes Prodigy to rescue the daughter of an ambassador
Genre superhero
Script J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils Luke Ross
Inks Dan Green, Al Milgrom
Colors John Kalisz
Letters Richard Starkings, Kiff Scholl, Comicraft

1 page Spectacular Spider-Mail letters page

Letters typeset