
However, there are a couple of other updates here, including sales for April 1999, in advance of the April 2009 figures. And the complete Statement of Ownership record is now online for Spider-Woman, covering sales from 1979 to 1982.
Spun out of Marvel Spotlight, Spider-Woman was notable for very quickly spawning a cartoon series on ABC (starring the voice of Joan Van Ark!). I was surprised to find a Statement in its final year, as it had gone bimonthly and its cancellation was one of the more abrupt to be found in a Marvel series at that time. The final issue was a classic "Combat Kelly ending" in which the character not only died, but was magically made never to have existed — and there was no letters page, only a single unpunctuated line pasted onto the bottom of the final page of art announcing the cancellation. As I recall, the explanatory page describing the story behind that issue's photo cover wound up having to run over in Marvel Age, Marvel's house fan magazine.
(Fortunately for the character — not to mention later writers coping with continuity headaches — Spider-Woman's erasure from reality was later remedied in Avengers.)
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