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Title: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 299
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Marvel Comics]
Date Published: April, 1988
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CGC certified: NM+ (9.6). White pages. Cover: Todd McFarlane. Script: David Michelinie. Art: Todd McFarlane. Overstreet: "1st brief app. Venom with costume." GPAnalysis: A 9.6 sold for $279 in May 2022.

"McFarlane and writer David Michelinie [introduced]... a new villain that sealed the success of this freakier, darker version of Amazing Spider-Man. Spider-Man's discarded black costume was revealed to be a sentient alien being; when it took as its host body a disgruntled former journalist named Eddie Brock, it called itself Venom. McFarlane gave the bloodthirsty Venom a hulking figure and an enormous grin of razor-sharp teeth. Now that Spider-Man had fierce iconography to match Wolverine's claws and the Punisher's arsenal, the title began putting up the kind of numbers it hadn't seen for twenty years, and climbed the sales charts towards The X-Men's number-one spot." — Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. Harper: 2012, p. 318.

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