Dates
- Cover date
- January 1984
- On sale
- October 18, 1983
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #86 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition60¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition60¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860219901 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition0.75 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.75 CAD.
Barcode 0714860219901 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Bugs! · 23 pages
With editor Danny Fingeroth away at the San Diego comic con, assistant editor Bob DeNatale decides to replace artist Al Milgrom with humorist Fred Hembeck for this issue's "important" story. Spider-Man decides to show the Black Cat where he works and they end up having to save J. Jonah Jameson from the Fly. Spider-Man decides to take the plunge and reveal his secret identity to the Cat.
Reprinted in
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1983), Essential Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (2005), The Marvel Universe According to Hembeck (2016), Marvel Masterworks: The Spectacular Spider-Man (2017)