cover: Mark Bagley
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN SUPER SPECIAL #1
Sep 1995
$3.95
Marvel Comics

"The Cycle of Life" (10 pages)
writer:
penciller:
inker:
Stan Lee
Darick Robertson
George Pérez

Reprinted in MARVEL VISIONARIES: STAN LEE HC and BEST OF MARVEL TPB (1995). Translated and reprinted in DIE SPINNE IST SPIDER-MAN #259 (German) (Dec 1996), SPIDER-MAN #1 (France) (Feb 1997)
Information from Andy Mangels's THE PÉREZ ARCHIVES #1, cover scan from longgonedays

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