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Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2005

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Variant cover art by Greg Land

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Cover art by Todd McFarlane

Reprint of The Amazing Spider-Man #203 (1980)

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Cover art by Todd McFarlane

Reprint of Marvel Team-Up #109

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Cover art by Jim Starlin

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First meeting and team-up of Brother Voodoo and Werewolf By Night

2nd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2008

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Second printing

Marvel ⋅ 2010

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Prelude to the six-issue limited series Doomwar

DC Vertigo ⋅ 1993

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Two-issue limited series featuring the Dead Boy Detectives

Children's Crusade is a crossover with multiple Annuals released in 1993

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1st team appearance of the Secret Defenders: Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, Hulk

Dark Horse ⋅ 1995

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Issue #3 of the popular 1991 Manga series

1:500 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2018

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Variant wraparound cover art by Mike Mignola

Remastered edition

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1st cameo appearance of Gwen Stacy clone, full appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #144

Web Exclusive ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2021

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Variant virgin cover art by Patrick Gleason, limited to 2,000 copies

Webstore exclusive

Convention Exclusive ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2011

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Variant cover art by Harvey Tolibao

Singapore Toy, Game and Comic Convention 2011

Captain America stands in front of the Merlion landmark located in Singapore

Variant ⋅ Image ⋅ 2021

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Variant cover art by Jock

Foil ⋅ Image ⋅ 2021

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Foil edition, limited to 150 copies

Signed by artist Jock and writer Scott Snyder, numbered

ComicsPro ⋅ Image ⋅ 2021

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Variant cover art by Greg Capullo

ComicsPro 2021 retailer exclusive

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Variant sketch cover art by Camillo Di Pietrantonio, limited to 50 copies

Metal edition, store exclusive

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1st appearance of Aliyah Bishop, the daughter of Bishop and Warbird from an alternate reality

Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2014

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Variant cover art by Skottie Young

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1st appearance of Crafty the Coyote, a creature that walks like a man and is painfully resurrected every time it is killed, inspired by Wile E. Coyote

Nominated for the Best Single Issue Eisner Award and won the 1989 Squiddy Award for Favorite Single Issue of Any Series - the Squiddys were annual fan awards given out from 1987 thru 2004 by the participants in the popular rec.arts.comics Usenet newsgroup, one of the very earliest online fan groups

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Anthology of mature-themed stories in black and white

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Two-issue limited series with variant newsstand covers

Polybagged with a booster pack of 8 playing cards

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Two-issue limited series with variant newsstand covers

Polybagged with Creature Tokens

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Story titled 'What If...? Spider-Man Had Never Become a Crimefighter' where Peter Parker chooses the path of an entertainer

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Final issue

Web Exclusive ⋅ Image ⋅ 2021

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Skottie Young webstore exclusive

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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Copies ordered by retailers: 21,783

Bad Idea ⋅ 2021

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Four-issue limited series about a pirate on a mission of vengeance after being spared from the gallows due to being pregnant but witnessing the death of her husband and crew

Image ⋅ 2002

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Copies ordered by retailers: 49,957

Image ⋅ 2003

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Copies ordered by retailers: 36,965

Blackthorne ⋅ 1987

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Published on the 10th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope

First printing has a Transformers advertisement on the back cover

Original story with 3-D effects

Copyright information titles this issue as Blackthorne 3-D Series #30

Polybagged with 3-D glasses

Blackthorne ⋅ 1988

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Original story 'Havoc on Hoth' with 3-D effects

Copyright information titles this issue as Blackthorne 3-D Series #47

Polybagged with 3-D glasses

Blackthorne ⋅ 1988

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36-page original comic story 'The Dark Side of Dantooine' with 3-D effects

Copyright information titles this issue as Blackthorne 3-D Series #48

Polybagged with 3-D glasses

Dark Horse ⋅ 2004

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Cover art by Tommy Lee Edwards featuring Boba Fett

Copies ordered by retailers: 18,215

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One-shot collection of cover art

Retailer appreciation publication

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1st appearance of the Tasmanian Devil in comic books

Hardcover ⋅ Dark Horse ⋅ 2021

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Hardcover collection of Apocalypse Suite #1 - #6 (2007)

Retailer appreciation giveaway, one per store

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Two-issue limited series

Polybagged with a playing card

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Two-issue limited series

Polybagged with a playing card

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Giveaway with purchase of any size All detergent

Cover art inspired by The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 (1965)

Origin of Spider-Man told through multiple reprinted pages of the following issues:

The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964)

The Amazing Spider-Man #21 (1965)

The Amazing Spider-Man #94 (1971)

Arcomics ⋅ 1993

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First lenticular cover

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Origin of Two-Face, told throughout the entirety of the 68-page issue

A sequence in this issue where a house was rigged to explode was mostly omitted for fear that readers would attempt the method in real life (tap cover and swipe to view pages in their original form)

Variant ⋅ Eclipse ⋅ 1987

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Regular-sized, distributed to comic shops

Adaptation of the 17-minute, Captain EO short film written by George Lucas, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Michael Jackson

$3.50 cover price, included 3-D glasses

Variant ⋅ Eclipse ⋅ 1987

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Regular-sized, distributed to comic shops

Adaptation of the 17-minute, Captain EO short film written by George Lucas, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Michael Jackson

$3.50 cover price, non-3D edition, printed in black and white, sometimes referred to as the 2D version

Value unknown

Cherry Comics ⋅ 1998

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12-page, mature-themed story written by Neil Gaiman

Copies ordered by retailers: 5,582

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First meeting of Spider-Man, Ben Reilly and Daredevil

Marvel ⋅ 1980

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Origin of Hellcat, Patsy Walker, specifically her long history in Marvel's romance comics explained as fictional stories written by her mother

Profanity panel: a cartoon rabbit is holding a box of cereal with the word 'SHIT' on it that was missed by editors

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First meeting of Booster Gold and the third Blue Beetle, Jamie Reyes

The Spectre is bound to the host body of Crispus Allen

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1st appearance of the Green Ranger, Tommy Oliver

Tommy becomes the White Ranger in issue, #4

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