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Issue Details

Issue #248
Published August 1997
Cover Price 1.99 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bob Harras (editor-in-chief); Ralph Macchio; Matt Hicks (assistant editor)

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man; gorilla; Kraven II (in shadow)
Genre superhero
Pencils Luke Ross
Inks Luke Ross
Letters Comicraft

23 page Spider-Man story "From the Shadows"

Characters Spider-Man; Jack O'Lantern II; J. Jonah Jameson; John Jameson; Dr. Ashley Kafka; Marla Madison Jameson; Alana Sloan (intro?); Flash Thompson; Harrison Thompson; Rose Thompson; Kraven II (cameo); Norman Osborn (cameo)
Synopsis Spider-Man is attacked by Kraven's beasts while searching for Jack O'Lantern; John Jameson undergoes hypnosis to learn why he attacked his father
Genre superhero
Script J.M. DeMatteis (plot); Mark Bernardo (script)
Pencils Luke Ross
Inks Dan Green; Al Milgrom
Colors John Kalisz
Letters Richard Starkings; Kiff Scholl; Comicraft
Notes Norman Obsorn is revealed as Jack O'Lantern's employer in this story

1 page Spectacular Spider-Mail letters page

Letters Typeset