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Cover: Steve Ditko

Marvel Tales #176

Jun 1985 · Marvel · 0.65 USD; 0.30 GBP; 0.75 CAD

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“Once Upon a Time, There Was a Robot”

This June 1985 reprint from Marvel's "Collector's Item Classic" line puts Spider-Man through the wringer twice over, and the cover by Steve Ditko says it all. A half-human, half-mechanical face looms large above two split scenes — on the left, Spidey is entangled by writhing green tentacles amid leaping flames, while on the right a sleek robot has him pinned beneath a staff as strange tendrils curl at its feet. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's story "Once Upon a Time, There Was a Robot" promises exactly the kind of inventive, boundary-pushing adventure that made their Spider-Man collaborations so memorable.

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writer, artist, inker Steve Ditko · writer Stan Lee · colorist Andy Yanchus · letterer Artie Simek · cover Steve Ditko

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writer, artist, inker Steve Ditko

writer Stan Lee

colorist Andy Yanchus

letterer Artie Simek

cover pencils, inks Steve Ditko

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When Professor Stromm is released from prison he plans to take revenge on his old business partner, Norman Osborn.

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