Dates
- Cover date
- June 1984
- On sale
- March 6, 1984
- Pages
- 36
Values
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #253 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 0714860245706 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition0.75 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.75 CAD.
Barcode 0714860245706 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
The Amazing Spider-Man No. 253 Facsimile Edition (2024). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- By Myself Betrayed! · 23 pages
While on the sports beat with Wendy, Peter gets involved in a scandal with a pro football quarterback who is throwing games for a new mob boss, the Rose. Peter tells Aunt May that he has dropped out of school and she flips out. Peter also discovers that Robbie is taking his new editor-in-chief position at the Bugle very seriously. Spider-Man meets and battles the Rose for the first time.
Publisher’s description
For his latest journalist assignment, Peter goes to a football game to snap pictures. He discovers that scandal involving the Rose is underway! Peter decides to break the news to Aunt May about graduate school. Can Spidey deal with upsetting the ones he loves?
Reprinted in
Marvel Tales (1966), Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2003), Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (2007), Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga (2014), The Amazing Spider-Man No. 253 Facsimile Edition (2024), Spider-Man: The Complete Black Costume Saga Omnibus (2024)