Amazing Fantasy

    (Marvel, 1962, 1995-1996, 2021, 2022)
™ and ©1961 Marvel

During the fifties, Marvel Comics was largely a publisher of monster and science-fiction stories. Super-heroes had largely been a phenomenon of the war years and had since fallen into disuse. The early sixties saw them beginning to make a come-back. Companies began mass-producing gimmick super-heroes based on various animals: apes, cheetahs, flies—whatever hadn’t been done already.

In 1961, Marvel’s Stan Lee decided he wanted to make his next super-hero a shy boy who lived with his aunt and got beat up at school. Lee figured that readers would identify more with such a character than the stereotypically perfect heroes. Since Amazing Fantasy (formerly Amazing Adult Fantasy) was already slated for cancellation, there was no risk in using it to introduce the character. That character was Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man. When sales results came in months later, it was clear they had a hit. Today, Spider-Man is Marvel’s most popular character.
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#15 - 3rd printing (Reprint packaged with Spider-Man movie DVD)

August, 2002
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3 copies available from $6.50 		Stan Lee, Steve DitkoJack Kirby, Steve Ditko
#15 - 4th printing (1st Appearance Spider-Man action figure insert)

May, 2005
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#15 - 9th printing (Old Navy reprint free with shirt purchase)

August, 2009
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#15 Variation A

August, 2012
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#15 Variation B (Facsmilie 2019 Edition Cover B by Steve Ditko)

December, 2019
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#16

December, 1995
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#17 (Cardstock cover by Paul Lee)

January, 1996
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#18 (Cardstock cover by Paul Lee)

March, 1996
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#1000 (Regular Cover by John Romita Jr)

October, 2022
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#1000 (2nd Printing Cover by Steve McNiven)

December, 2022
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#1000 Variation B (Cover B by J. Scott Campbell)

October, 2022
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#1000 Variation E (Cover E by Steve McNiven)

October, 2022
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#1000 Variation G (Cover G by Peach Momoko)

October, 2022
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#1000 Variation K

October, 2022
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#1000 Variation N (PX DCD 40th Virgin Cover N by Peach Momoko)

October, 2022
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