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The Amazing Spider-Man #552

Marvel · Series began 1999 · May 2008

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Dates

Cover date: May 2008
On sale: March 5, 2008
In stores: March 5, 2008
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #552 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition$2.99 cover

Direct Edition

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

Barcode 75960604716155211
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Adi Granov Cover

Barcode 75960604716155221
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Newsstand edition$3.99 cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 00928102199504
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Story arc: Brand New Day

This is part 7 of 20. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Creators

pencils: Phil Jimenezinks: Andy Lanning, Phil Jimenezcolors: Jeromy Coxscript: Bob Gale, Stephen Wackerletters: Cory Petit

Stories

Just Blame Spider-Man · 23 pages
The Daily Bugle spreads the story that Spider-Man is a serial killer. A drug addict nicknamed Freak steals an experimental formula, mistaking it for meth, and undergoes a horrible mutation.

Publisher’s description

BRAND NEW DAY continues with two new web-slingin' creators: Oscar-nominated screenwriter Bob Gale and artist extraordinaire Phil Jimenez! What starts as a petty theft from a local Soup Kitchen turns into a chase that results in the birth of a brand-freaking-new Spidey villain - and we mean “Freak” literally! Plus: more JJJ! More Daily Bugle - oops, we mean DB! Repercussions from the actions of new villain, Menace! Curt Connors! And - what you've really been waiting for, true believer - Peter Parker does his own laundry! Will those stains come out? And what ARE those stains anyway?

Characters

Peter ParkerSpider-ManJ. Jonah JamesonMay ParkerRobbie RobertsonBetty BrantThe WreckerPeter PetruskiDirk GarthwaiteLily HollisterCarlie CooperTrapsterEliot FranklinThunderballBulldozerHarry OsbornJames SandersHenry CampSpeed DemonVin GonzalesBlack MambaTanya SealyDexter BennettJohnathon OhnnSpotFrances BarrisonShriekBill HollisterEdward LanskyLightmaster

Reprinted in

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2008), Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2008), Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2008), Astonishing Spider-Man (2009), Spider-Man: Brand New Day - The Complete Collection (2016), Spider-Man: Brand New Day Omnibus (2024)