From tony

This may sound like a "how much is this worth" question but its not really. I have before me two "May 93" issues of web of spiderman 100, one has a barcode and one has a 30 year aniversery for x men in place of the bar code. What is the difference in the two?

From Lufia

I recently purchased some comics online. It says the average grade of the comics is very fine. I remember seeing a list, and that very fine is near the top. But I'd like a list and description of each rating because I cannot find it on the web again.

From David

im a little curious about how comic books are numbered. what confuses me is when they say #40 and underneath it says something like #481.

From Steve

I've asked you guys questions before, and you've been really helpful, so i thought i'd try again. i've been trying to buy back issues and i just picked up the alternate packaging of Amazing Spiderman #390. It came with an animation cell. It states on the cover that there are a total of six (6) animation cells that were packaged. under your listing i can only find 4, could you maybe give me a list of the 6 comics that contain these animation cells. thanks again for helping me with my questions all the time. great job on the site, you've done spidey a great justice.
thanks again

From Scotty2Hotty

If I recall correctly, when the alien symbiote latched on to Eddie Brock, he recieved all of the memories from when the symbiote was with Spider-Man(most importantly his secret identity). So when the piece of the symbiote latched on to Cletus Kassidy(Carnage) why didnt he recive Peters secret identity? Or if Eddie didnt get the secret identity from the symbiote then you can just call me an idiot.

From SwimDaryl

I just finished reading PPSM(Vol. 2) #10 and was wondering how Carnage ended up not being frozen as we last saw after he bonded with the Silver Surfer. I was wondering how he became unfrozen. If you guys could answer my question I would be very grateful.

From Anonymous

i am a little confused as to just how many versions there are of todd mcfarlane's peter parker: spider-man #1. one guide i looked at numbered them as 1, 1A, 1B, etc... and the other guide started with 1A, 1B, 1C, etc. here is what i do know (i think):

1. silver cover - unbagged
2. silver cover - bagged
3. black cover - bagged
4. green cover - unbagged
5. green cover - bagged
6. green cover with upc - unbagged
7. green cover with upc - bagged
8. gold cover
9. gold cover with upc
10. platinum cover
11. chromium cover - entertainment distributor's version
12. official signed version by todd mcfarlane w/Certificate of Authenticity

From Jason Boaz

I recently read in a couple of websites that Alison Mongrain, the woman responsible for Mary Jane's premature birth and switcheroo with a stillborn infant is still alive, even after I read reviews of the Gathering of Five from this site that said she died at the hands of the Molten Man. The MC2 world of Spider-Girl and the main Marvel Universe are starting to merge into one. The question is...how did Alison survive?

From Karmacide

Ah haf been unable to help noteece zat zee bio on medinnus.com on Mon Captain America's greatest foe... Batroc zee Leaper says zat Batroc haz also battled zee likes of zee Amazeeng Spider-Man. When deed zees battle take place, and who won? (Ah haf my doubts zat Spider-Man would be able to hold hees own against such ah great and terreeble foe as Batroc.)

Alzo haz Spider-Man ever battled against Batroc's Brigade?

From UZODINMA NWACHUKU

I am searching for a long-lost Spider-Man story. It concerns an all-color, all-illustrations text about The Kingpin trying to become Mayor Of New York City, New York. He (Fisk) anticipates both interference from and need for the abilities of Spider-Man to essentially assure him victory. Amongst other things, Wilson Fisk captures Spider-Man with a circus-stuntman trick, clamps a fantastic, seemingly unremoveable armband onto the Web-Slinger to make sure that Spider-Man doesn't go far and invites other crime bosses over to gloat of his seemingly unstoppable rise to greater-than-ever power, with a seemingly humbled Spider-Man as his super-strong, super-agile "bulldog" of an enforcer. But then Vanessa Fisk, glamorous wife to the hulking Wilson Fisk, overhears his scheming with his fellow crime bosses. Tired of hearing confirmations of still more lies from her rogue of a husband, she seeks out Spider-Man who she met but a short while earlier. True, she was repulsed by him at first, but she now sees him as the only way to stop The Kingpin. So she apparently frees him from the grievous armband and lets him swing off to foil Wilson Fisk's election-day mischief. Please note that, although the above description is lengthy-- maybe even rambling-- I feel I have to be thorough in providing details from my eighteen-year-old memory. The text with the above storyline was encountered by my brother and me in an apparently late-Seventies or early-Eighties Marvel Comics or Marvel Books pocket-sized publication. It sadly had no cover (front or back) and several of its pages were missing. But maybe upwards of seventy percent of the pages were present and intact. Enough to get a good idea of what the storyline was.

From MB

1. How was Ron Lim's art in the Spider-man titles?
2. How come the "Spider-man Unlimited" series is so hated?
3. Is it true that Kevin Smith will start writing for Peter Parker: Spider-man?

From JDiva

Which Spidey villians are in the Sinister Syndicate?

From Katherine Clem

I was wondering if you knew anything about the cause of Peter Parker's parents' death. I saw somewhere on the net that said they died in a plane crash when Peter Parker was very young. But I haven't found any substantial information of what happened to them. If you know of any sites, or even their cause of death, I would greatly appreciate a response.

From Matthew

You list Cletus Kassidy's first appearence in Amazing Spider-man #224. I have yet to find it in there. Could you double check for me?

From MastaPlanna

Hey if the symbiote detached from spiderman in web of spider-man #1, why is the costume on him in #7 and a lot of later issues? If it came back to him then in what issue did it finally get separated before it came to Eddie Brock?

From Rudy

I understand that Peter Parker propose to Marry Jane for the first time on issue #182, in which she refused, but what my question is Did Mary Jane know that Peter was Spider Man, when he propose to her for the first time?

Later in issue #257 she reveals to Peter that she had always known that Peter was Spider Man. I want to know whether she knew his secret, back when he propose to her for the first time.

From The Waterboy

i was reading a the oracle section (as always) and i saw that someone asked who "riot" was... i dont know if there was a Riot in the comics... but toy biz made a line of toys based around Venom.

From GusLind

Okay, I know that the Spider-Girl comics came from a What If...? issue which isn't supposed to be true to the regular comics, which makes the whole series an extended What If...?.

However, I was wondering if there was any glaring reason that Spider-Girl and Spider-Man couldn't maintain continuity, despite the difference in time periods. Was it ever confirmed that Baby May really died in Spider-Man? Have Spider-Man and Spider-Girl ever contradicted each other? Heck, is it even possible at all that Marvel would ever write May back into existence (whether or not they give a flip about continuity)?

The next What If...?: "What if Spider-Girl wasn't a what-if?"

From Jason Boaz

Why do a lot of people hate the organic webshooters?

There's a lot of pros and cons concerning organic webshooters. A couple of the main reasons some Spidey fans dislike them is 1. The mechanical webshooters showed how scientifically brilliant Peter was, since he invented them and the formula. And 2. if a human body were to mutate in such a way that it could spin a web as a spider does, the web wouldn't come from the wrists, but the, er, hind quarters.