The Amazing Spider-Man #248 (1984) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man	cover	1	pencils: John Romita Jr.; inks: Terry Austin	Eliot Franklin, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Thunderball
2	And He Strikes Like a Thunderball	comic story	11	script: Roger Stern; pencils: John Romita Jr.; inks: Brett Breeding; colors: Bob Sharen; letters: Diana Albers	Eliot Franklin, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Thunderball
4	The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man!	comic story	11	script: Roger Stern; pencils: Ron Frenz; inks: Terry Austin; colors: Christie Scheele; letters: Joe Rosen	Ben Parker, May Parker, Peter Parker, Spider-Man
6	-	in-house column	1	script: Lynn E. Cohen
7	-	letters page	1	script: Bob DeNatale

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	price 0.60 USD; barcode 0714860245701
Canadian	price 0.75 CAD; barcode 0714860245701

Collection	Year
The Very Best of Spider-Man #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0045-8	1994	On eBay ›

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