List of The Spectacular Spider-Man issues
The following is a complete list of all volumes of The Spectacular Spider-Man, with notes for each issue.
''Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine'' (1968)
The Spectacular Spider-Man was initially a two-issue magazine published by Marvel in 1968, as an experiment in entering the black-and-white comic-magazine market successfully pioneered by Warren Publishing and others. It sold for 35 cents when standard comic books cost 12 cents and Annuals and Giants 25 cents. It represented the first Spider-Man spin-off publication aside from the original series' summer Annuals, begun in 1964.The first issue featured a painted, color cover by men's adventure-magazine artist Harry Rosenbaum, in acrylic paint on illustration board, over layouts by The Amazing Spider-Man artist John Romita Sr. The 52-page black-and-white Spider-Man story, "Lo, This Monster!", was by writer Stan Lee, penciler Romita Sr. and inker Jim Mooney. A 10-page origin story, "In The Beginning!", was by Lee, penciler Larry Lieber and inker Bill Everett.
The feature story was reprinted in color, with some small alterations and bridging material by Gerry Conway, in The Amazing Spider-Man #116–118 as "Suddenly...the Smasher!", "The Deadly Designs of the Disruptor!", and "Countdown to Chaos!". These versions were themselves reprinted in Marvel Tales #95–97.
The second and final issue also sported a painted cover and the interior was in color as well. Lee, Romita and Mooney again collaborated on its single story, "The Goblin Lives!", featuring the Green Goblin. A next-issue box at the end promoted the planned contents of the unrealized issue #3, "The Mystery of the TV Terror". A version of the Goblin story, trimmed by 18 pages, was reprinted in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #9, and portions of the "TV Terror" costume were reused for the costume of the Prowler.
''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #201–263 (April 1993 – September 1998)
''The Spectacular Spider-Man Annuals''
- 1 – "And Men Shall Call Him... Octopus!" – September 1979
- 2 – "Vengeance Is Mine... Sayeth the Word!" – May 1980
- 3 – "Dark Side of the Moon" – July 1981
- 4 – "Memory Lane!" – July 1984
- 5 – "Ace" – July 1985
- 6 – "Ace II" – July 1986
- 7 – "The Honeymoon" – August 1987
- 8 – "Return to Sender" – July 1988
- 9 – "The Serpent in the Shadow" – May 1989
- 10 – "Into the Microverse" – June 1990
- 11 – "The Ghost and the Machine" – June 1991
- 12 – "Down and Downer" – June 1992
- 13 – "Emergence" – July 1993
- 14 – "Cycles & Circles" – July 1994
- 1 – "Paper Trail" – June 2018