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Issue Details

Issue #256
Published September 1984
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Danny Fingeroth; Bob DeNatale (Assistant)

Cover Details - "Injured...Helpless...And Stalked by Puma!!"

Characters Spider-Man; Puma
Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Frenz
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Letters Typeset

22 page Spider-Man story "Introducing... Puma!"

Characters Spider-Man; GUESTS: Black Cat; Jenna Taylor; Robbie Robertson; Betty Leeds; Mary Jane Watson; VILLAINS: The Rose; Puma [Thomas Fireheart] (1st); CAMEO FLASHBACK: Aunt May Parker
Synopsis Spidey takes down another one of the Rose's operations and the mob boss calls in wealthy businessman and super powered assassin Thomas Fireheart a.k.a. The Puma to kill the web slinger; Exhausted, Peter crawls into bed for a good night's sleep but his alien costume seems to have other ideas; Robbie commends Peter on his nice photos (they were taken by the Black Cat) but Pete is so tired that he barely notices; Spidey is ambushed by the Puma and pulls his left arm out of its socket; With Spider-Man down and writing in pain, the Puma prepares to pounce.
Genre superhero
Script Tom DeFalco
Pencils Ron Frenz
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Joe Rosen
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #270; in Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #48