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Issue Details

Issue #156
Published November 1989
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief); Jim Salicrup; Glenn Herdling (assistant editor)

Cover Details - "His Name Is Banjo"

Characters Spider-Man; Banjo; Bugeye
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema (signed)
Inks Sal Buscema (signed)

Cover Details - "J.C. Penney Variant"

Characters Spider-Man; Banjo; Bugeye
Genre Superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
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 "The Search for Robbie Robertson"

Characters Spider-Man; Banjo; Bugeye; Tombstone; Joe (Robbie) Robertson; Mary Jane Parker; Flash Thompson; Black Cat; Betty Brant Leeds; Harry Osborn; Liz Allan Osborn; J. Jonah Jameson; Marla Madison Jameson; Thomas Fireheart; May Parker; Kristy Watson; Norman Osborn II
Synopsis Spider-Man encounters hillbilly mutants in Pennsylvania while searching for Robbie and Tombstone; Thomas Fireheart announces his takeover of the Daily Bugle.
Genre superhero
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Rick Parker

1 page Spectacular Spider-Mail letters page "Spectacular Spider-Mail"

Letters Typeset