Object label
Marvel · Comics · The Amazing Spider-Man · 1979
The Amazing Spider-Man #194
The Amazing Spider-Man · 1979
Black Cat's first appearance! Spider-Man's beloved enemy, (and sometime girlfriend), makes her smashing debut at an illegal-arms warehouse. Classic! Spider-Man may be in over his head when he runs afoul of Black Cat's bad luck juju!
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The Amazing Spider-Man #194 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Al Milgrom, Ben Sean, and Frank Giacoia, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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The Amazing Spider-Man #194 is a comics collectible connected to Marvel and The Amazing Spider-Man. Useful collector signals include release year 1979, issue #194, and artist context from Jim Shooter, Marv Wolfman, and John Costanza. The Amazing Spider-Man has 22 catalogued releases on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
The Amazing Spider-Man #194 is a comics entry for issue #194 in The Amazing Spider-Man from 1979. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
Marvel pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Aunt May, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Flash Thompson, Harry Osborn, and J. Jonah Jameson.
Series context
The Amazing Spider-Man
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- 22 objects
- Release span
- 1963-1997
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- Marvel
- Series
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Issue number
- #194
- Cover date
- Jul 1, 1979
- Characters
- Aunt May, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Flash Thompson, Harry Osborn, J. Jonah Jameson +3 more
- Creators
- Al Milgrom, Ben Sean, Frank Giacoia, Jim Shooter, John Costanza, Keith Pollard +1 more
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Data source
- Source
- Metron
- Source ID
- 9453
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