List of The Spectacular Spider-Man issues
The following is a complete list of all volumes of "The Spectacular Spider-Man", with notes for each issue. The list is updated as of September 13, 2021. Section::::"Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine" (1968). The Spectacular Spider-Man was initially a two-issue magazine published by Marvel in 1968, as an experiment in entering the black-and-white comic-magazine market successfully pioneered by Warren Publishing and others. It sold for 35 cents when standard comic books cost 12 cents and "Annual"s and "Giant"s 25 cents. It represented the first Spider-Man spin-off  publication aside from the original series' summer "Annual"s, begun in 1964. The first issue (cover-dated July 1968) featured a painted, color cover by men's adventure-magazine artist Harry Rosenbaum, in acrylic paint on illustration board, over layouts by "The Amazing Spider-Man" artist John Romita Sr. The 52-page black-and-white Spider-Man story, "Lo, This Monster!", was by writer Stan Lee, penciler Romita Sr. and inker Jim Mooney. A 10-page origin story, "In The Beginning!", was by Lee, penciler Larry Lieber and inker Bill Everett. The feature story was reprinted in color, with some small  alterations and bridging material by Gerry Conway, in "The Amazing Spider-Man" #116–118 (Jan.–March 1973) as "Suddenly...the Smasher!", "The Deadly Designs of the Disruptor!", and "Countdown to Chaos!" (with additional inking by Tony Mortellaro on the latter two). These versions were themselves reprinted in "Marvel Tales" #95–97 (Sept.-Oct. 1978). The second and final issue (Nov. 1968) also sported a painted cover and the interior was in color as well. Lee, Romita and Mooney again collaborated on its single story, "The Goblin Lives!", featuring the Green Goblin. A next-issue box at the end promoted the planned contents of the  unrealized issue #3, "The Mystery of the TV Terror". A version of the Goblin story, trimmed by 18 pages, was reprinted in "The Amazing Spider-Man Annual" #9 (1973), and portions of the "TV Terror" costume were reused for the costume of the Prowler.