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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published February 1981
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Denny O'Neil
Notes Letters page replies by Roger Stern.

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man; Mysterio; Debra Whitman
Genre Superhero
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Notes Cover credits confirmed in the letters page of Spectacular Spider-Man #55.
Reprinted in Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1994 series) #nn; in Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

17 page Spider-Man story "Aliens and Illusions!"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man; GUESTS: Aunt May; Nathan Lubensky; Debra Whitman; VILLAINS: Mysterio; "Aliens"
Genre superhero
Script Roger Stern
Pencils Marie Severin (breakdowns); Jim Mooney (finished art)
Inks Jim Mooney
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Jim Novak
Reprinted in Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

5 page White Tiger story "The Menace of Gideon Mace!"

Characters FEATURE: White Tiger; VILLAIN: Gideon Mace
Genre superhero
Script Roger Stern
Pencils Denys Cowan
Inks Dave Humphrys
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Jim Novak
Reprinted in Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #2