The above was actually my little sister's. When the family would go on vacation to Wildwood Crest, NJ each year, our parents would buy us comics from the spinner rack in the hotel gift shop.
They bought her this issue, but I don't think she ever read it. I, of course, devoured it! After all, it featured the freakin' SpiderMobile & Hammer Head!!!
Below is the actual first issue of the Amazing Spider-Man I bought myself & which started my collection:
This is a tricky one, my mom used to buy me Hulk and Spiderman comics because I used to watch and was a fan of the 67 and 81 Spidey cartoons and the Hulk TV series which I would avidly watch in syndication. So I was scrolling through images of various Spidey covers from 1987 since my mom started buying me comics a little before I started Kindergarten, and I specifically remember this cover as being one of my first Spidey comics, I'm not sure if it was my absolute first, but its up there.
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Gah! I wish I knew what my first Spidey comic was. It got thrown out with a bunch of other comics from the late 1970s when my grandparents sold their house.
Anyone know what this issue is? All I can remember is that:
1. It's not Amazing Spider-Man
2. Spidey meets a gang of kids picking on a kid. The kid getting picked on is a big fan of Spider-Man
3. Spidey helps the kid by shooting web fluid onto his hands (which the kid doesn't notice...?) and the kid can then climb a wall in front of his friends who are amazed.
Corny plot. Wish I could remember the comic details though.
Gah! I wish I knew what my first Spidey comic was. It got thrown out with a bunch of other comics from the late 1970s when my grandparents sold their house.
Anyone know what this issue is? All I can remember is that:
1. It's not Amazing Spider-Man
2. Spidey meets a gang of kids picking on a kid. The kid getting picked on is a big fan of Spider-Man
3. Spidey helps the kid by shooting web fluid onto his hands (which the kid doesn't notice...?) and the kid can then climb a wall in front of his friends who are amazed.
Corny plot. Wish I could remember the comic details though.
I hope you figure it out, but remember...this thread is for "the Amazing Spider-Man" title only.
When I was six years old my dad and I went to the grocery store and they had stacks and stacks of this comic at the end of the checkout aisle. Every customer was offered a free copy with their store purchase. When my dad handed it to me, it was like Christmas and a birthday wrapped into one single moment. That was my first comic book and it was a good day to be six years old.
This was my first american Amazing -
In danish, they printed from all the different Spider-Mans in one magazine. I read all the old stuff there, but don't know what American issue it was.
Amazing Spiderman#294. This issue shocked me a bit at the time. Kraven's Suicide at the end was not what I expected. Then again, I was 9 when I first read it.
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Pretty sure I had a few other issues before this, but this issue is the one that I remember sitting in the back seat of the car after getting it staring at the cover, kind of in love... and also why I bought the Spider-Man action statue
I have like 4 of these, I bought them trying to get ones in better and better condition
I still have my original copy & remember the hours sitting on the floor in front of my parents' stereo wearing big, 1970s head phones listening to this fantastic record! After the 1967 cartoon & the Mego doll, this was probably my third introduction to Spidey!
Amazing Fantasy #15 was the first Spider-Man comic I ever read, but this was the first Amazing Spider-Man comic.
I remember being a little disappointed at the time that super-heroes were replacing the monsters in Amazing Fantasy, Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish.
First issue I ever bought with my own 60 cents! And still one of my favorite issues ever (back when Peter's identity MEANT something). I highly recommend picking this up. Just a great single issue read.
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