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Issue: The Amazing Spider-Man #5

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Publication Date: October 1963

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Issues: #5 of 443 Issues (939 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched; #200 square bound

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 The Amazing Spider-Man #5 [U.S. Cover Price]

The Amazing Spider-Man #5 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Doctor Doom!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]

First Line: This is your finish, Spider-Man! If the Fantastic Four themselves could not stop me, what chance have you?

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Pages: 1

Marked for Destruction by Doctor Doom!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom]; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant (first name revealed); Flash Thompson (last name revealed); Liz Allen (last name revealed as Allan); May Parker; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]

First Line: Spider-Man and the arch-foe of the Fantastic Four, face-to-face for the first time!

Synopsis: Dr. Doom tries to trick Spider-Man into helping him defeat the Fantastic Four. When Spider-Man turns him down, he decides to capture Spider-Man. Flash Thompson dresses up as Spider-Man for a prank and Dr. Doom mistakes him for the real Spider-Man and captures him instead, and Flash has to be saved by the real Spider-Man.

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Pages: 21

Notes: This story is an example of Doctor Doom using a robot to take his place. The first instance of this was seen in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #5.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Pages: 1

Notes: House ad for Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos # 3.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Pages: 1

Notes: House ad for Fantastic Four Annual # 1; Strange Tales Annual # 2 and X-Men.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: Letters page includes Special Announcements Section.