The Amazing Spider-Man #198 (1979) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Mysterio Is Deadlier by the Dozen!	cover	1	pencils: Keith Pollard; inks: Bob McLeod; letters: Danny Crespi, Irving Watanabe	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mysterio
1	Mysterio Is Deadlier By the Dozen!	comic story	17	script: Marv Wolfman; pencils: Sal Buscema, Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Irv Watanabe	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mysterio; the Burglar; J. Jonah Jameson; Dr. Marla Madison; Randy Robertson
2	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
4	-	letters page	1	script: Marv Wolfman

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0714860245711

Collection	Year
The Essential Spider-Man #9 ISBN 978-0-7851-3074-1	2009	On eBay ›

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