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The Amazing Spider-Man #223

Marvel · Series began 1963 · December 1981

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Dates

Cover date: December 1981
On sale: 1981
Pages: 36

Values

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Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #223 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition50¢ cover

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
This edition’s page
Newsstand edition50¢ cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0714860245712
This edition’s page
UK pence edition0.20 GBP cover

British

Printed cover price 0.20 GBP.
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Publisher’s description

It’s a true Animal House, as Red Ghost and his Super-Apes crash a college party at ESU! Good thing Peter Parker got an invite. Spider-Man takes down Red Ghost in the ESU library, and is aided by shy graduate student Roger Hochberg!

Reprinted in

Super Spider-Man TV Comic (1981), Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2003), The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection (2013)