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Issue Details

Issue #252
Published May 1984
Cover Price 0.60
Pages 36
Editing Danny Fingeroth
Notes Cover is an homage to the cover of Amazing Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #15.

Cover Details - "Introducing--The New Spider-Man!"

Characters Spider-Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Frenz (signed)
Inks Klaus Janson (signed)
Notes Cover is an homage to the cover of Amazing Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #15.
Reprinted in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #39

22 page Spider-Man story "Homecoming"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Man [1st in black costume which later becomes Venom; Predates Secret Wars #8 by 7 months]; GUESTS: Curt Connors [Lizard]; Billy Conners; Matha Connors; Black Cat; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson; Aunt May; Nathan Lubensky; Avengers--Captain America; Thor; Iron Man; Hawkeye; Wasp; Captain Marvel II; CAMEOS: She-Hulk; Mr. Fantastic; Human Torch; The Thing; Invisible Woman; Cyclops; Colossus; Wolverine; Storm; Nightcrawler; Mockingbird; Scarlet Witch (all photos)
Synopsis Spider-Man returns from Secret Wars and tries to get used to his new black and white symbiotic costume, which will later become Venom.
Genre superhero
Script Roger Stern; Tom DeFalco
Pencils Ron Frenz
Inks Brett Breeding
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Cont'd from SECRET WARS #12; Next chronological Spidey in Black duds in Marvel Team-Up #141 (Which came out the same day as ASM #252).
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #266; in Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #39