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A story which drew upon both the fiction and the real fears of Mutants in its time, "The Man in the Sky" was a step towards Marvel's X-Men.

At D23 Expo in Anaheim this past weekend, Marvel Comics gave away two exclusive-to-the-show editions of Amazing Fantasy #1000, featuring the work of Neil Gaiman, Steve McNiven, Dan Slott, Armando Iannucci and more at the Marvel Comics: Celebrating 60 Years of the Amazing Spider-Man panel, with one copy of each variant given away per person[...]

Two editions of Amazing Fantasy #1000 were given away by Marvel Comics at the D23 Expo in Anaheim this past  weekend, alongside the 60th anniversary of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published in August 1962. And at D23, Marvel Comics gave away two exclusive-to-the-show editions of the extra-sized comic, featuring[...]

PrintWatch: Power Rangers Unlimited: Death Ranger #1, Amazing Fantasy #1000 and All-Out Avengers #1 have gone to second printing from Boom Studios and Marvel Comics Let's take a gander… PrintWatch: POWER RANGERS UNLTD DEATH RANGER #1 2ND PTG MORA (W) Paul Allor (A) Katherine Lobo (CA) Dan Mora THE LEGENDARY OMEGA RANGERS defended the universe from evil thousands[...]

In today's Amazing Fantasy #1000, there is a tribute to Mike Pasciullo, the former Senior Vice President of Marvel Television & Entertainment, Marketing & Publicity, who died earlier in June this year, at the age of 50 We recorded the memories and tributes of his contemporaries, but today's Amazing Fantasy #1000 includes a story that[...]

Today sees the publication of Amazing Fantasy #1000, for the 60th anniversary of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee I first came to Marvel Comics through the Marvel UK reprints, published by the likes of Dez Skinn and Neil Tennant, and sold in British newsagents, reprinting the[...]

Marvel may not be able to back up the legacy math behind Amazing Fantasy #1000 in comics, but maybe they can get there with variant covers At the very least, they're going to give it their best shot, but at the rate Marvel publishes variant covers, it could take… weeks to publish a thousand of[...]

Despite publishing very few issues over the last sixty years, Marvel has somehow managed to fudge the math to justify publishing Amazing Fantasy #1000 in August And so impressive is that big, four-digit number that even Neil Gaiman will contribute to the oversized anniversary issue celebrating 60 years of Spider-Man Who needs math when you've[...]

Amazing Fantasy #5 concludes on Wednesday with Amazing Fantasy #5 And as the mini-series ends, and most of these characters know they'll probably never see the light of day again, it's time to go for it There's lots of making out in this preview is what we're saying Check it out below. Amazing Fantasy #5 MARVEL COMICS SEP210962 (W)[...]

Amazing Fantasy #3 is in stores from Marvel Comics on Wednesday, and after reading this preview, you may feel compelled to make sure your comics are securely bagged and boarded Yes, in this preview, we see a horror story unfold as Spider-Man's Uncle Ben describes destroying a copy of Treasure Island Look, we're not saying[...]

And in this preview of Amazing Fantasy #2, Spider-Man once again finds himself exposed Come on, Peter! At least try to keep it a secret! Check out the preview below. AMAZING FANTASY #2 (OF 5) MARVEL COMICS JUN210606 JUN210607 – AMAZING FANTASY #2 (OF 5) ANDREWS VAR – $4.99 JUN210609 – AMAZING FANTASY #2 (OF 5) MOMOKO VAR – $4.99 (W)[...]

The rather fabulous Kaare Andrews put out a passion project this past week, Amazing Fantasy #1 for Marvel Comics, allowing his various artistic styles and designs to inhabit the lushest areas and characters of the Marvel Universe If there was any problem, it may have been that the pages just weren't expansive enough Well, it[...]

Amazing Fantasy is a comic book executive's wet dream series Take the most iconic versions of all your most popular characters, come up with some contrived reason to pluck them out of their timelines and put them all together, and enjoy The only question we have is, with Kaare Andrews behind the pen, why didn't[...]

Of all the weird rumors and news to come out this week, this one is a bit interesting as IO Interactive has another project in the works.

But now he's restarting an old title at Marvel from July, Amazing Fantasy The series that saw the first appearance of Spider-Man, now has some new – and old – characters to profile. Blending different Marvel eras and genres, Red Room Black Widow, teenage Spider-Man and World War II Captain America wake up on an island[...]

A copy of the first appearance of Spider-Man, in Amazing Fantasy #15, signed by the character's creators Steve Ditko and Stan Lee With a CGC grade of 5.5, it is being auctioned by Heritage Auctions, as part of their Heritage Auctions, 2021 January 14 – 17 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction – Dallas 7239[...]

I don't know, you wait for ages for a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with a cover by Jack Kirby and published in 1961 –  and then three come along at once That's how many copies Heritage Auctions have up for auction, coming to[...]

The comic book Amazing Fantasy, published by Marvel Comics in the sixties, is best known for its fifteenth issue that introduced the Amazing Spider-Man, by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee But with that issue, the series ended and the character used to launch The Amazing Spider-Man after keen reader response. But there were fourteen other issue[...]

We've covered a lot of chart-busting sales of the first appearance of Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15 during the first decade of Bleeding Cool.  It is perhaps the most liquid single vintage comic issue across the entire range of grades in all of the comic book collecting hobby Spider-Man himself is seemingly immune to the[...]

Cho's research and technology help keep The Avengers in the fight. That would be the mother of Amadeus Cho, the teen prodigy character created by Greg Pak for the second volume of Amazing Fantasy #15 Currently a member of the Illuminati and dubbed the seventh most intelligent person on the planet, is his new return to prominence[...]

They all have British prices on the cover, but all genuine first prints. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ His small collection is made up of: Amazing Fantasy 15 Spider-Man 1-16, 18 X-Men 1,2 Avengers 1 Metal Men 1-3 Daredevil 1-4 Out of this World 1-3 Justice through the[...]

It's estimated he could get between three quarters of a million dollars for the haul, including high condition copies of Amazing Fantasy #15, Fantastic Four, Amazing Spider-Man #1, Incredible Hulk #1, Tales Of Suspense #35, Journey Into Mystery #83, Tales To Astonish #27, and many more. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5QDpsFElo[/youtube] What's also noteworthy, aside from the condition of the collection,[...]

It's expensive trying to get yesterday's comics, and we've spent a fortune." Indeed, the collection had to spend what I imagine to be a considerable chunk of its departmental acquisitions budget to buy copies of Detective Comics #1, Amazing Fantasy #15, Superman #1, among other exceedingly rare and expensive comics of ages past As for current comics,[...]

UPDATE: He's back… In the middle of a very large listing for a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 from 1962, featuring the very first appearance of Spider-Man, comes this proviso. This auction is for a Amazing Fantasy #15 reprint only, this is not the original comic Pictures that are shown in the picture gallery above do not[...]

There are multiple copies of Amazing Fantasy #15, including this one in CGC 9.0, multiple copies of Amazing Spider-Man #1, and scores of keys throughout With 14 hours remaining, the bidding on the Amazing Fantasy #15 at CGC 9.0 is at $125,000, and I expect that to be significantly higher before the auction ends. By[...]