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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published September 1980
Cover Price 0.50
Pages 36
Editing Jim Shooter; Jim Salicrup (Consulting); Deborah November; Anita Malnig

Cover Details - "The Green Goblin Returns!"

Characters Spider-Man; Green Goblin
Genre superhero
Pencils Rich Buckler
Inks Bob McLeod
Letters Typeset

1 page Power Man story "The Power Man Story"

Characters Power Man
Genre superhero
Script Jim Salicrup; Michael Siporin
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Mike Esposito; Ricardo Villamonte
Letters Raymond Holloway; John Costanza
Notes Black and white frontispiece

13 page Spider-Man story "The Roots of Evil"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man; GUESTS: Power Man; Mary Jane Watson; Aunt May; VILLAIN: Plantman
Synopsis Plantman is stealing plants from a local greenhouse and Spidey and Power Man try to stop him.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Salicrup; Michael Siporin
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Mike Esposito; Ricardo Villamonte
Colors George Roussos
Letters Raymond Holloway; John Costanza

1 page Impossible Man story "Who is The Impossible Man?"

Characters Impossible Man
Genre superhero
Script Jim Salicrup; Michael Siporin
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Mike Esposito; Ricardo Villamonte
Colors George Roussos
Letters Raymond Holloway; John Costanza

6 page Spider-Man story "Impossible Airport 1980"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man; GUESTS: Impossible Man; Mary Jane Watson
Synopsis Impossible Man causes a snarl at the airport with his flying saucer.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Salicrup; Michael Siporin
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Mike Esposito; Ricardo Villamonte
Colors George Roussos
Letters Raymond Holloway; John Costanza

12 page Spider-Man story "Happy Halloween From the Green Goblin"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man; GUESTS: Mary Jane Watson; J. Jonah Jameson; VILLAIN: Green Goblin
Synopsis The Goblin holds a bunch of kid's Halloween candy for ransom.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Salicrup; Michael Siporin
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Mike Esposito; Ricardo Villamonte
Colors George Roussos
Letters Raymond Holloway; John Costanza

1 page Spider-Man story "Wit of the Web Slinger"

Characters Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Script Chuckie Chen
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Mike Esposito; Ricardo Villamonte
Letters Raymond Holloway; John Costanza

1 page Spider-Man (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Back Cover"

Characters Spider-Man; Plantman; Power Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Mike Esposito; Ricardo Villamonte
Letters Typeset
Notes Spidey Stamp #32, Power Man