First interior art by Steve Ditko

First cover art in the comic book industry by Steve Ditko

Cover art by Steve Ditko

Cover art by Steve Ditko

Cover art by Steve Ditko

Cover art by Steve Ditko

Cover art by Steve Ditko

Published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Classic science-fiction cover art by Steve Ditko

Cover art by Steve Ditko

Cover art by Steve Ditko

1st appearance and origin of Captain Atom

Premiere issue of Amazing Adult Fantasy, formerly titled Amazing Adventures

1st appearance of Tim Boo Ba, a green scaly creature and a conqueror

Prototype of Doctor Octopus, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published fifteen months before The Amazing Spider-Man #3, the first appearance of Doctor Octopus

Character does not take human form in story

Debut of Stan Lee's letter column 'Mailbag'

Cameo appearances of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, silhouetted, in story

Classic cover art by Steve Ditko

1st appearance and origin of Tad Carter, an early Marvel mutant, often misrepresented as the first mutant

Carter next appears over 30 years later in X-Men: The Hidden Years (2001)

1st appearance and origin of Spider-Man

1st appearance and death of Uncle Ben

1st appearance of Aunt May

1st appearance of Flash Thompson

💰 In Sept. 2021, a 9.6 sale of $3.6 million surpassed the previous record in this grade of $1.1 million from 2011

2nd appearance of Spider-Man

First meeting of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four

1st appearance of Chameleon, Dmitri Smerdyakov, half-brother of Kraven the Hunter

[February 2022 - confirmed, Fred Hechinger cast as chameleon]

1st appearance of J. Jonah Jameson

1st team appearance of the Teen Brigade

1st appearance of Metal Master

The Hulk receives a presidential pardon for the first time and again later in The Incredible Hulk #279

Final issue, Hulk stories continue in Tales To Astonish #60 and pick back up five years later with Incredible Hulk #102

3rd appearance of Spider-Man

1st appearance of Vulture

1st appearance of the Terrible Tinkerer

1st cameo appearance of Mysterio, disguised as the assistant of the Terrible Tinkerer

Spider-Man first references his ability to sense danger as his Spider-Sense tingling

[June 2022 - Jorma Taccone to voice Vulture in Spider-Verse 2]

1st appearance, cover and origin of Dr. Octopus

Debut of the 'Spider's Web' fan letters section

An editing error has Doctor Octopus mistakenly refer to Spider-Man as Super-Man

1st appearance and origin of Sandman

1st appearance of Betty Brant, a secretary at the Daily Bugle

Spider-Man refers to himself as 'The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' for the first time

1st cameo appearance of Jessica Jones, a spectator of the Sandman versus Spider-Man fight - this appearance is retconned as revealed in The Amazing Spider-Man #601

First battle of Spider-Man vs Dr. Doom

🏅#9 on the Hot 10

Transactions from this week that sold for higher than the previous twelve-month average:

6.0 sold for $2,999 vs the average $2,845 (+5%)

5.0 sold for $2,300 vs the average $2,074 (+11%)

There was also a sale in this grade for $2,160

3.0 sold for $1,260 vs the average $1,183 (+7%)

Last week, a 9.0 sale of $9,000 shattered the previous record from 2008 of $7,170 by +26%

1st appearance and origin of the Lizard

1st appearance of the Melter

2nd appearance of Vulture

1st appearance of the Living Brain

First battle Spider-Man vs Human Torch

1st appearance and origin of Electro

[December 2021 - a source informs us that there was a clause in Foxx’s contract that secured his reprisal of the Electro role for a standalone feature if No Way Home hit an opening weekend monetary goal but we cannot say for sure that an Electro spin-off will happen]

2nd appearance of Dr. Octopus

1st appearance of Bennett Brant, later becomes Crime Master

Peter Parker uses a Spider Tracer for the first time to keep surveillance on Doctor Octopus

3rd appearance of Dr. Octopus

Reference to the creators of Spider-Man, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko are depicted on a sign advertising a fictional company called Leedit Inc. aka Lee Dit(Co.)

1st appearance of Mysterio

Quentin Beck aka Mysterio, first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #2 not in costume

1st appearance of the Green Goblin

First battle of Spider-Man versus The Hulk

1st appearance of Kraven the Hunter

2nd appearance of the Chameleon

First mention of Mary Jane Watson

[June 2021 - a Kraven movie is in-development with Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the lead role]

First meeting of Spider-Man and Daredevil

4th appearance of Daredevil and first appearance outside of his own title

2nd appearance of Green Goblin

1st appearance of Ned Leeds, later becomes the third Hobgoblin

3rd appearance of Sandman

4th appearance of Kraven the Hunter

1st team appearance of the Sinister Six: Doctor Octopus, Kraven, Vulture, Electro, Mysterio, Sandman

3rd appearance of Kraven, Vulture, Electro, Mysterio and Sandman

Reprinted in Marvel Tales #150

Character profiles of Dr. Doom, the Lizard and others

Additional pages explain how Spider-Man's powers and gadgetry work

Canadian edition, blank back cover

U.S. version has an advertisement for toy army soldiers

1st appearance of Mac Gargan, becomes Scorpion in The Amazing Spider-Man #20

1st appearance and origin of Scorpion, Mac Gargan appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #19

2nd appearance of the Beetle

1st appearance of Princess Python

3rd appearance of Green Goblin

Norman Osborn is seen briefly without the Green Goblin costume but it is not revealed that he is the costumed villain until The Amazing Spider-Man #39

Cited as a Mysterio appearance but the character only appears in disguise, not in costume

1st appearance of Spencer Smythe and the Spider-Slayers

1st cameo appearance of Mary Jane Watson, face is obscured by a tree

⚠ Misconception: cited by some sources as the first appearance of Mary Jane but she does not appear in full until The Amazing Spider-Man #42

1st appearance of Bennett Brant as Crime Master

Death of Crime Master

1st appearance and origin of Molten Man

Peter Parker graduates from high school

2nd appearance of Scorpion