This is a near mint, polybagged and sealed reproduction of Amazing Fantasy # 15, the very first appearance and origin of the Amazing Spider-Man, written by Stan "The Man" Lee.  Or, you could buy an original, which should set you back oh, 3 billion dollars or so.  This is much more affordable...

Amazing Fantasy #15,  featured a new Super Hero, one described in the beginning text box on page 1 in the following paragraph: "Like costumed heroes? Confidentially, we in the comic mag business refer to them as "Long Underwear Characters"! and, as you know, they're a dime a dozen! But, we think you may find our Spiderman just a bit...Different!"...This introduction into the world of Peter Parker and Spider-Man could not have been any better as the future of this character would prove out...Many already know the story of Puny Peter Parker, the school nerd who is picked on in school, can't get a date, and how he is brought up by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben...It is a story that will forever hold it's place as one of the greatest as Peter gets bitten by a dying radio-active spider at a Science Exhibit on Radio-Activity...Feeling strange, Peter discovers he has obtained some sort of Spider-Like powers as he walked home from the Exhibit...1st a great Jump, Then the ability to scale a building, Then enhanced Strength and Agility...He at first uses these powers for financial gain wrestling Crusher Hogan for $100 with his face covered...He gets an agent who was an on-looker at the event and he's in show business!...Peter then quickly puts together a costume and creates pressure controlled "web-shooters".

After his first televised show, Spider-Man witnesses a then common thief run from an officer...The thief alerts him to stop the thief, but Spider-Man looks out for as he put it: "Number One"...Out of costume, Peter is home and receives a present from his Aunt and Uncle, a brand new Microscope and states that they are the greatest family and fella ever had...After another show, Peter returns home only to find a police car out in front of his house, and in one of the most dramatic and historic comic scenes of all time, he receives the word that his Uncle Ben has been shot and murdered...He finds out where the Burglar headed to from the officer and quickly became Spider-Man...He tracks down the Burglar at  warehouse and exclaims: "There's no place on earth you can hide from me!", and in what IS the greatest Spider-Man scene ever, sees the burglar's face for the first time...He is the same man he let go just days before after the television appearance!...The Burglar is then bound by Spider-Man's web all neatly and given to the police...Peter takes full responsibility for the Death of his Uncle as he could have stopped the Burglar, but didn't...And with this acceptance of responsibility, The greatest line attached to the mythos of Spider-Man is born: "With great power there must also come great responsibility!"

Amazing Fantasy #15 reprint, polybagged/never opened/SEALED - printed exactly as it was originally published, ads and all (back cover features a J. Scott Campbell pin-up.)  Pop it open and check out the differences between the original and movie versions!

This is a near mint, polybagged and sealed reproduction of Amazing Fantasy # 15, the very first appearance and origin of the Amazing Spider-Man, written by Stan "The Man" Lee.  Or, you could buy an original, which should set you back oh, 3 billion dollars or so.  This is much more affordable...

Amazing Fantasy #15,  featured a new Super Hero, one described in the beginning text box on page 1 in the following paragraph: "Like costumed heroes? Confidentially, we in the comic mag business refer to them as "Long Underwear Characters"! and, as you know, they're a dime a dozen! But, we think you may find our Spiderman just a bit...Different!"...This introduction into the world of Peter Parker and Spider-Man could not have been any better as the future of this character would prove out...Many already know the story of Puny Peter Parker, the school nerd who is picked on in school, can't get a date, and how he is brought up by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben...It is a story that will forever hold it's place as one of the greatest as Peter gets bitten by a dying radio-active spider at a Science Exhibit on Radio-Activity...Feeling strange, Peter discovers he has obtained some sort of Spider-Like powers as he walked home from the Exhibit...1st a great Jump, Then the ability to scale a building, Then enhanced Strength and Agility...He at first uses these powers for financial gain wrestling Crusher Hogan for $100 with his face covered...He gets an agent who was an on-looker at the event and he's in show business!...Peter then quickly puts together a costume and creates pressure controlled "web-shooters".

After his first televised show, Spider-Man witnesses a then common thief run from an officer...The thief alerts him to stop the thief, but Spider-Man looks out for as he put it: "Number One"...Out of costume, Peter is home and receives a present from his Aunt and Uncle, a brand new Microscope and states that they are the greatest family and fella ever had...After another show, Peter returns home only to find a police car out in front of his house, and in one of the most dramatic and historic comic scenes of all time, he receives the word that his Uncle Ben has been shot and murdered...He finds out where the Burglar headed to from the officer and quickly became Spider-Man...He tracks down the Burglar at  warehouse and exclaims: "There's no place on earth you can hide from me!", and in what IS the greatest Spider-Man scene ever, sees the burglar's face for the first time...He is the same man he let go just days before after the television appearance!...The Burglar is then bound by Spider-Man's web all neatly and given to the police...Peter takes full responsibility for the Death of his Uncle as he could have stopped the Burglar, but didn't...And with this acceptance of responsibility, The greatest line attached to the mythos of Spider-Man is born: "With great power there must also come great responsibility!"

Amazing Fantasy #15 (cover-dated August 1962), is the title that introduced the popular superhero character Spider-Man.  Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciler) and Steve Ditko (inker).  With issue #15 Amazing Adult Fantasy was retitled Amazing Fantasy.  This issue's lead feature introduced the superhero Spider-Man, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Ditko, although Lee rejected Ditko's cover art and commissioned Jack Kirby to pencil a cover that Ditko inked.  As Lee explained in 2010, "I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jack's covers."  In numerous interviews Lee has recalled how the title had been slated for cancellation, and so with nothing to lose, publisher Martin Goodman reluctantly agreed to allow him to introduce Spider-Man, a new kind of superhero — one who would be a teenager, but not a sidekick, and one who would have everyman doubts, neuroses and money problems.  However, while this was indeed the final issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing and that "The Spiderman [sic] ... will appear every month in Amazing."  Regardless, sales for Amazing Fantasy #15 proved to be one of Marvel's highest at the time, so the company launched the series The Amazing Spider-Man seven months later.  In 2008, an anonymous donor bequeathed the Library of Congress the original 24 pages of Ditko art for Amazing Fantasy #15, including Spider-Man's debut and the stories "The Bell-Ringer", "Man in the Mummy Case", and "There Are Martians Among Us".  In September 2000, Metropolis Comics in New York City brought the only known CGC-graded 9.6 (near-mint plus) copy to market and sold it for $140,000.  In October 2007, a near-mint copy sold for $210,000 in an online auction on ComicLink.com.  A near-mint CGC-graded 9.6 copy sold for $1.1 million to an unnamed collector on March 7, 2011, making the issue one of only three different comic books to have broken the million-dollar mark (the others being the debut of Superman in Action Comics #1, of which three copies have sold for more than $1 million each; and the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics #27).

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