The Amazing Spider-Man #197 (1979) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Kingpin Is Back! Deadlier Than Ever!	cover	1	pencils: Dave Cockrum; inks: Frank Giacoia	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Kingpin
1	The Kingpin's Midnight Massacre!	comic story	18	script: Marv Wolfman; pencils: Keith Pollard, Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney; colors: Ben Sean; letters: Joe Rosen	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mysterio (villain); Kingpin (villain); the burglar; Vanessa Fisk; Betty Brant; Glory Grant; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson
3	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Alice Cooper

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0714860245710

Collection	Year
The Essential Spider-Man #9 ISBN 978-0-7851-3074-1	2009	On eBay ›
Spider-Man: Return of the Burglar #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-6265-0	2012	On eBay ›

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Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
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