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Issue Details

Issue #253
Published June 1984
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Danny Fingeroth; Bob DeNatale (Assistant)

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man; The Rose (Hands Only)
Genre superhero
Pencils Rick Leonardi
Inks Rick Leonardi
Letters Typeset

23 page Spider-Man story "By Myself Betrayed!"

Characters Spider-Man; GUESTS: Aunt May Parker; Wendy Thorton; Robbie Robertson; Betty Leeds; Nathan Lubensky; VILLAIN: Rose (1st); CAMEO FLASHBACK: Black Cat; Uncle Ben Parker
Synopsis While on the sports beat with Wendy, Peter gets involved in a scandal with a pro football quarterback who is throwing games for a new mob boss, the Rose; Peter tells Aunt May that he has dropped out of school and she flips out; Peter also discovers that Robbie is taking his new editor-in-chief position at the Bugle very seriously; Spidey meets and battles the Rose for the first time.
Genre superhero
Script Tom DeFalco
Pencils Rick Leonardi
Inks Bill Anderson
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Joe Rosen
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #267; in Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #40