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Strange Tales #151
Marvel ⋅ 1966
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Strange Tales #151
 
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First published artwork by Jim Steranko for Marvel

Amazing Spider-Man #210
Marvel ⋅ 1980
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Amazing Spider-Man #210
 
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1st appearance of Madame Web

Amazing Spider-Man #550
Marvel ⋅ 2008
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Amazing Spider-Man #550
 
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1st appearance of Lily Hollister as Menace

[May 2020 - speculation that Menace could be introduced to the Sony Universe since the writer hired for the Jackpot movie created Menace as an adversary to Spider-Man and Jackpot in comics]

Black Flag #1
Preview ⋅ Image ⋅ 1994
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Black Flag #1
 
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Preview of Black Flag #1 (1995)

Additional content including character sketches and guest artist illustrations

Cover art by Todd McFarlane and Dan Fraga

Amazing Spider-Man: Swing Shift #1
Marvel ⋅ 2008
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Amazing Spider-Man: Swing Shift #1
 
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Reprint of Free Comic Book Day 2007 with additional content including sketches, character bios and a 'Spider-Man Manifesto' by editor Tom Brevoort

Wikipedia lists the first appearance of Jackpot in the sidebar as The Amazing Spider-Man Swing Shift which is the title of the Free Comic Book Day 2007 story where Jackpot first appears

⚠ This is a reprint, not the first appearance of Jackpot

Amazing Spider-Man #546
Marvel ⋅ 2008
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Amazing Spider-Man #546
 
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1st full appearance of Mr. Negative

1st appearance of the second Jackpot

1st cameo appearance of Freak, prior to receiving powers

Web of Spider-Man #99
Marvel ⋅ 1993
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Web of Spider-Man #99
 
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1st appearance of Nightwatch in costume

Free Comic Book Day 2007: The Amazing Spider-Man
Marvel ⋅ 2007
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Free Comic Book Day 2007: The Amazing Spider-Man
 
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1st cameo appearance of Mr. Negative

1st appearance of Overdrive

1st appearance of Jackpot, a geneticist and mother who received powers being accidentally exposed to an experimental serum

Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot #1
Marvel ⋅ 2010
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Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot #1
 
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First solo title series featuring the new Jackpot, Sara Ehret

1st appearance of the fourth individual to take on the Rose mantle, Phillip Hayes

Amazing Spider-Man #4
Marvel ⋅ 2014
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Amazing Spider-Man #4
 
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1st full appearance of Silk, a Korean-American girl who was bitten by the same radioactive spider as Peter Parker

[April 2021 - live-action Amazon TV series in the works / November 2022 - Lord & Miller (Into The Spider-Verse) will executive produce and Amy Kang (The Walking Dead) is the showrunner. Series titled Silk: Spider Society will be based on characters created by Dan Slott and be the first of more series based on characters in the Spider-Man universe]

📖 Spider-Verse Reading Order: read The Amazing Spider-Man #4 and #5

Star Wars: The Clone Wars #8
Dark Horse ⋅ 2009
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars #8
 
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1st full appearance of Clone Commander Wolffe

[May 2020 - Star Wars theorists speculation that Wolffe could appear in the Mandalorian 2 as mentioned on Twitter and in a Screenrant]

Batman Giant (Walmart) #5
DC ⋅ 2020
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Batman Giant (Walmart) #5
 
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Walmart exclusive featuring a new Joker story (May 2020)

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #9
Marvel ⋅ 2001
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Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #9
 
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The Fantastic Four first appears in the Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610) in this issue and others thereafter but it isn't until Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 when the team is officially introduced with an established, integrated continuity of stories and character development

Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 should be considered the first appearance of the Fantastic Four in the Earth-1610 reality aka the Ultimate Universe

Ultimate X-Men #1
Marvel ⋅ 2001
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Ultimate X-Men #1
 
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1st team appearance of the Ultimate X-Men: Professor X, Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Beast, Iceman

JSA All-Stars #4
DC ⋅ 2003
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JSA All-Stars #4
 
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Star-Spangled Kid becomes Stargirl

Captain Marvel #8
3rd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019
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Captain Marvel #8
 
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Variant third printing cover art by Carmen Nunez Carnero

Copies ordered by retailers: 3,179

Giant-Size Chillers: Dracula #1
Marvel ⋅ 1974
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Giant-Size Chillers: Dracula #1
 
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1st appearance of Lilith, the daughter of Dracula

[April 2023 - unconfirmed speculation Mia Goth will portray Lilith in the Blade movie]

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