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Issue Details

Issue #81
Published October 1991
Cover Price 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Tom Defalco (editor-in-chief); Danny Fingeroth

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man; Bloodshed
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
Letters Typeset

Cover Details - "J.C. Penney Variant"

Characters Spider-Man; Bloodshed
Genre Superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
Letters Typeset
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 "Living in Fear"

Characters Spider-Man, Bloodshed (intro), Ricky Dichinson, Bazin
Synopsis A super-powered drug runner, in attempting to force his brother to steal $1,000,000 in negotiable securities, sees an opportunity for revenge against Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Script Kurt Busiek
Pencils Steve Butler
Inks Don Hudson, Chris Ivy
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Rick Parker