Publication History
Though the book was published in 1983, the contest winners were not announced until 1986. The initial winners were:
- Plotter and scripter: Chuck Duffie
- Penciller: Mark Bagley
- Inker: Doug Hazlewood
- Colorist: P. Jeanine Pasda
- Letterer: Robin Riggs
For their outstanding entries, the winners received a commemorative certificate. They were also promised "their first regular professional assignment, which will be finishing the Spider-Man story 'Personals' which was begun in the Try-Out Book. The result of their labors will be published next spring in a special giant-sized issue of The Amazing Spider-Man." That promised issue never was published. However, artist Bagley is now a well-known penciller who would go on to have an extended run on The Amazing Spider-Man in the 1990s and then Ultimate Spider-Man with Brian Michael Bendis in the 2000s. Inker Hazlewood has had a steady career, ironically mostly for DC Comics, since the late 1980s. Duffie and Pasda have yet to see their work in print.
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