The Spectacular Spider-Man #20 (1978) for Sale - Where to Buy

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Death Waits--In Lightmaster's Lair!	cover	1	pencils: Ernie Chan; inks: Ernie Chan	Spider-Man; Lightmaster
1	Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?	comic story	17	script: Bill Mantlo; pencils: Sal Buscema, Mike Esposito; inks: Mike Esposito; colors: Don Warfield; letters: I. Watanabe	Spider-Man; White Tiger [Hector Ayala] (guest star); Enforcers [Ox; Fancy Dan; Montana] (villain); Lightmaster [Edward Lansky] (villain); Flash Thompson; Sha Shan; Mrs. Muggins; Holly Gillis; Police Lieutenant D'Angelo
2	-	letters page	0.7	letters: typeset
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.3
4	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee

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

Collection	Year
Essential Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-1682-6	2005	On eBay ›
Spider-Man [Hi-C Mini Comics] #3	1987	On eBay ›

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Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
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