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Here are the first eleven appearances. Title • Cover Month • Newsstand Date Amazing Fantasy #15 • August • June 5, 1962 Amazing Spider-Man #1 • March • December 10, 1962 Amazing Spider-Man #2 • May • February 12, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #3 • July • April 9, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #4 • September • June 11, 1963 Strange Tales Annual #2 • 1963 • June 11, 1963 Fantastic Four Annual #1 • 1963 • July 2, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #5 • October • July 9, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #6 • November • August 8, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #7 • December • September 10, 1963 Strange Tales #115 • December • September 10, 1963

Just to be picky but one often hears that STA #2 is the fourth appearance but I don't see the evidence for such. It's an early Spider-Man but not the fourth. Calendar Month Release Dates Amazing Fantasy #15 June 5, 1962 Amazing Spider-Man #1 December 10, 1962 Amazing Spider-Man #2 February 12th, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #3 April 9th, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #4 June 11th, 1963 Strange Tales Annual #2 June 11th, 1963 Source: Marvel Comics Group 1961-70 There is no month listed in the indicia of the book. Sgt. Fury #2 (a May release) is advertised inside the book. It's probably this ad that leads to an earlier release claim. However, the annual, itself, is advertised in Amazing Spider-Man #4 (ad) and #5 (special announcements section). Source: Spider Fan Comics Blog A June release date seems difficult to refute as copies with date stamps usually read June 11. I think I've seen one dated June 10 but I assume that's just an "unchanged" dealer date stamp. This would make Strange Tales Annual #2 the 6th appearance of Spider-Man, if one gives precedence to his own magazine when given the same release date. CGC labels I've seen mark it as an early Spider-Man appearance or first Spider-Man crossover. Source: Heritage Archives.

wdb23 did some very fine work a few years back with fantasy Doctor Strange covers. Given the high quality of Ditko's work, it does make you wonder what might have been achieved had Ditko received the marketing, renumeration and recognition he wanted. For more (thumbs u : The Doctor Strange Custom Covers Project

A warehouse find to our benefit. Now the trick is to find a nice one with a good wrap.

I understand what you are saying, but look at it from this point of view, to give some of these "positive" comments is like a "kudos" for what they are selling. It is better, sometimes, than putting your books up for sale and get no response at all. You can't tell if your books aren't worth it or if maybe people just don't have the dough to spend right now. Just another way of looking at it. I am wondering if Arex's point might be more to the empty nature of the comment. Sometimes these comments are so thoughtlessly delivered that I have to bit my tongue. And don't tell me what a beautiful book it is when it's a photograph aparently taken on the foggiest day in the history of the Scottish moors. And sometimes I feel commentators are deliberately duplicitous. Complimenting a book as a great 9.4 when the number of spine stresses would offend a chiropractor ... I feel better now.

I've seen a lot of the covers from this period but don't recall this one. It's always a pleasant surprise to see a "new" cover. (thumbs u Though it seems to me that Kid Colt, Rawhide and Two-Gun have to be a bit more careful about stepping out on crumbling cliff edges. I wonder if the motif comes from early western serials?

Interesting observation and keen eye. It does look look like another hand: the shape of the mouth and the bags under the eyes. It actually looks a bit like a profile of Bill Clinton. In fact, the whole cover looks like Ayers except for the figure of the Kid. The inks over the Kirby Kid look different in outline and feathering. Ayers brush work is much looser than seen here. So who's doing redraws at Marvel in 1962? Sol Brodsky? He had a pretty clean line.

That's a nice copy. Mine's so beat up I never realised what a great cover this is.

He did say the clear equivalent of this. Honestly, he's not the CGC. 9.8s are a c rap shoot. I went back and reread Dr. Chaos's responses to the OP. They're polite. They're not what the OP wanted to hear. The OP put a spin on the story by omitting relevant detail. Not cool. Dirty laundry.

:thumbsup: I ignore any seller who is too cheap to handle the fees. Yup, me too...I figure if a seller is trying to squeeze every little drop out of the transaction, he might cheap out on shipping or be kinda optimistic with the grading. Not saying it's true...but it does give off this signal. This is exactly how I feel. If a seller doesn't understand the role of PayPal as a transaction facilitator that helps him/her for a fee -- then I start to wonder how aware they are in general when they sit down to grade a book.

Nice one Steve I think this is the most overlooked early FF book of all (for good reason though). It's actually not a bad issue, story is OK, the art is classic Kirby, but it's just that the other "early" issues of the FF run are so GOOD, that this issue pales a little when compared to them. (thumbs u It's also an issue I picked up at school (a copy without a back cover) from another kid (in school), and was happy to have a copy because this issue was a little hard to find where i lived back in 1964 (the year i got my first copy). So I hold this issue (especially presentable copies), with a little higher regard. Nice Steve...keep it up. And Kirby inked the cover himself.

It's interesting that Independent News refers to Post-Implosion Atlas as Goodman Comics.

Numbers match then. (thumbs u

they lost me pretty much after the 65 to 75 cent price jump. 15¢ to 20¢

Wow...Your good!!!! I came up with 658 books. I was going released to newstand in Jan 1960. Check my list. Did I miss something? Amazing Adventures #1-6 Amazing Adult Adventures #7-14 Amazing Fantasy #15 Amazing Spider Man #1-19 Amazing Spider Man Annual #1 Avengers #1-11 Battle #68-70 Daredevil #1-5 Date With Millie #1-7 Fantastic Four #1-33 Fantastic Four Annual #1,2 Gunsmoke Western #56-77 Incredible Hulk #1-6 Journey into Mystery #56-111 Kathy #1-27 Kid Colt #88-119 Life With Millie #8-20 Linda Carter Student Nurse #1-9 Love Romances #85-106 Marvel Tales #1, 2 Millie the Model #94-125 Millie the Model Annual #1-3 Modeling with Millie #21-36 My Girl Pearl #7-11 My Own Romances #73 74 75 76 Pasty Walker #86-118 Patsy And Hedy #68-97 Rawhide Kid #17-43 Sgt. Fury #1-13 Strange Tales #73-127 Strange Tales Annual #1, 2 Teen Age Romance #77-86 TOS #7-60 TTA #7-62 Two gun Kid #51-72 Wyatt Earp #27 28 29 X-Men #1-8 According to my research you have listed six books which have cover dates that predate January 1960. A Date with Millie #1 (October 1959) and #2 (December 1959) Kathy #1 (October 1959) and #2 (December 1959) Patsy Walker #86 (December 1959) Two-Gun Kid #51 (December 1959)

652 if you are measuring by cover dates. Beginning with 4 cover-dated 'January' issues in September of 1959 through to 7 cover-dated 'December' issues released in October 1965. 667 if you are calculating by books released to the newsstand in January 1960 through December 1964.

I think folks would be surprised how many books flip auction to auction. Easier to distinguish pedigrees but the billy books are par for the course Hey Rick, I wouldn't be surprised, actually I find it fun to see how me books have made a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ... appearance in auctions. From my observation, I would say CLINK followed by Pedigree have the most repeat appearances. I wonder why that is Books won but not paid for ? I don't know for sure but suspect these reappearances are for several reasons not limited to: 1. flippers flipping 2. eyes were bigger than wallet folks 3. I saw something prettier and have to have it now folks 4. Auction fluffers - if an auction does not have enough good stuff, then it gets back filled with some good stuff that isn't intended to sell but "fluffs" the auction. I choose #5.

Nice light blue colour on the 55. Another fine example of a difficult book to find well preserved. There was something about that colour that led more easily to edge browning.

Don't see any Ditko here.

This looks very nice. The image code even indicates white pages! (Every copy I seem to see suffers from browning.)

Very nice.

Awesome copy (thumbs u Very nice. My grail too.... Not too ambitious in the grail stakes really though. I understand that you are probably thinking in terms of expense but I would politely disagree on the grounds of comic history. It would be a very fine addition to any collection that has a focus on early Marvel or Steve Ditko.

Congrats on this one. A rather illusive teen title book spotlighting the "silly" Millie -- soon to be replaced by "soap opera drama" Millie.

Certainly those covers that he inked himself sit in a special category by themselves. I could see starting a collection of the self-inked books, perhaps bookended by the Palmer and Janson books. I have always considered it a shame when Kane had his work (especially faces) corrected by John Romita. I would imagine that Romita himself was not too fond of the job.

Great stuff.