Publication History
The title's main features were black-and-white reprints of stories from the American The Amazing Spider-Man comic, with new eight-page black-and-white Captain Britain stories, continuing the stories from the cancelled Captain Britain solo comic, Captain Britain Weekly.
Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain lasted 22 issues before being renamed simply Super Spider-Man (and the Captain Britain stories being replaced by Captain America). The high-note of the run was the six-issue finale, written by Chris Claremont with art by John Byrne, featuring both Spider-Man and Captain Britain and the debut of the villain Arcade. (This storyline originated in the American Marvel title Marvel Team-Up #65 & 66, published in the U.S. shortly before being reprinted here. The storyline was again reprinted in England in the 1979 Marvel UK book Captain Britain Summer Special.)
With his ouster from Super Spider-Man, Captain Britain would not be seen again for over a year, eventually doing a team-up with The Black Knight in Marvel UK's Hulk Comic in 1979, during the "Otherworld Saga."
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