Variant Photo Cover of the Spider-Man Parade Balloon.

Santa's carryin' a swingin' bag of sweet surprises this Christmas as the Marvel Holiday Spectacular comes your way with a giant-size extravaganza of Marvel fun! Includes 20 pages of previously unprinted content, including: a five-page Franklin Richards story, the 8-page X-Men story "If the Fates Allow"; the three-page "Last Christmas"; the one-page "Werewolf By Eve", and the three-page "Santa Claus vs. the Illuminati". Plus, reprints from Amazing Spider-Man #166 (cover+18 pages), Stan Lee's "The Big X-Mas Blackout" from Holiday Special 1993: Spider-Man (eight pages); and Kurt Busiek & James Fry's "Catastrophe on 34th St." from Holiday Special 1994: Beast and Iceman (20 pages). And topping off the tree: an interview with Santa Claus about his characterization over the years in Marvel comics.