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Issue: The Amazing Spider-Man #3

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Publication Date: July 1963

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Issues: #3 of 443 Issues (939 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.

On Sale Date: 1963

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 #3 [U.S. Cover Price]

The Amazing Spider-Man #3 [UK Cover Price]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]

First Line: America's most exciting super-hero captured by the world's most dreaded super-villain!

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Pages: 1

Spider-Man Versus Doctor Octopus

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius] (Introduction; Origin); Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Charlie (Burglar); J Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Flash Thompson; Liz Allen

First Line: Doctor Octopus the only enemy ever to defeat Spider-Man!

Synopsis: When an experiment goes wrong, Otto Octavius gains control of his robotic arms and decides to take over an atomic facility, but Spider-Man stops him.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 21

Job Number: X-219

Notes: Spider-Man called "Super-Man" on pg 8; corrected in later reprintings.

Bonus Spider-Man Pin-Up Page!

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]

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Pages: 1

Job Number: X-219

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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 #1 and Fantastic Four # 16. Suspicion exists the image of Dr. Doom is either pencilled by Jack Kirby or is a swipe by Sol Brodsky.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset; ?

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Pages: 2

Notes: First letters section. Includes a letter from Buddy Saunders. Promo art of the new corner trademark featuring Spider-Man (the same one used on the cover). Steve Ditko was credited with the idea of the corner symbol in the letters section of Fantastic Four # 18.

Spider's Web letters page logo designed and drawn by Ditko.