Spider-Man In Newspapers: 44 Weeks Michael Sangiacomo's article in the Plain-Dealer about the copies of early Spider-Man comics is the first place I've seen the nuts and bolts of the operation detailed: 22 issues published over 44 weeks, about a year skipping major holiday weekends. I mention this because the sustained exposure this project could have is a slightly different advertising model than a one-off of "here's a really old comic book" like I thought it might be.