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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published August 1977
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.30 USD
Pages 36
Editing Marv Wolfman

Cover Details - "Face to Face with Spider-Man"

Characters Nova; Spider-Man; Ralph Rider
Genre superhero
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Frank Giacoia; John Romita ? (corrections on Spider-Man)
Letters John Costanza
Notes Giacoia cover credit and possible Romita cover credit provided by Nick Caputo (2006). The cover to this issue is featured in How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.
Reprinted in Essential Nova (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 [black and white]; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #8 [black and white]

17 page Nova story "Who Is -- the Man Called Photon?"

Characters Nova [also appears as Richard Rider]; Photon (introduction); Spider-Man [also appears as Peter Parker]; Ralph Rider (death); Harry Daze; Jason Dean; Michael Lincoln; Franklin Risk; Charles Rider
Synopsis Rich's uncle Ralph is murdered by Photon because of a secret chemical formula he was working on that several men were trying to acquire. Nova and Spider-Man team up to figure out the true identity of Photon.
Genre superhero
Script Marv Wolfman
Pencils Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Frank Giacoia (finished art)
Inks Frank Giacoia
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Gaspar Saladino (p. 1); Joe Rosen
Notes Story continues in Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #171 (August 1977).
Reprinted in Eterni, Gli (Editoriale Corno, 1978 series) #12; in Essential Nova (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 [black and white]; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #8 [black and white]