Amazing Fantasy #15

(August 1962)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Spider-Man / story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Flash Thompson; Ben Parker; May Parker; Liz Allen; Crusher Hogan; The Burglar

Synopsis:

Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains the abilites of a spider. When he fails to stop a burglar who runs past him he learns a grave lesson.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1
• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #137
• in Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1974 series) #nn
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #1
• in Spider-Man Classics (Marvel, 1993 series) #1
• in Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #275 (April 1986)
• in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)
• in Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn
• in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #70
• in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #1/1978
• in Wha...Huh? (Marvel, 2005 series) #nn [pp. 1-3]
• in Spider-Man Collectible Series (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

Indexer Notes

Origin of Spider-Man.

The Bell-Ringer (Table of Contents)

story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

On a small Mediterranean island of fisherfolk, Old Pedros is the town bell-ringer. One day the volcano atop the island begins to erupt. The villagers evacuate and put out to sea. Old Pedros, though, stays at the church. "The bells must be rung," he tells himself. "Someone will hear. For centuries someone has always heard!" Molten rock streams toward the church. Before it reaches Old Pedros, a ray of sunlight surrounds him. The superstitious villagers swear they saw him ride that ray into the sky. Did their eyes play tricks on them, or did Someone hear the bells?

Man in the Mummy Case (Table of Contents)

story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Rocco Rank, a career criminal, breaks into a museum to escape a policeman. While he looks for a hiding place, he hears a voice. It's a mummy's, and it promises to protect him from the police. All he has to do is lie in a sarcophagus. The mummy reassures Rank that he will not suffocate or become another mummy. Rank finally agrees and gets into the sarcophagus, which the mummy shuts. The policeman double back, finds a broken window, and searches the room. The mummy is motionless, and the sarcophagus is empty, so he leaves. Rank is safe from the police ... but he has become a slave building the Pyramids.

There Are Martians among Us (Table of Contents)

story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

The discovery of a crashed flying saucer frightens a small town, especially when the townspeople realize that the Martians are among them. A month goes by with the aliens still at large. A man leaves for the city and tells his wife to stay in the house where she is safe. Later that day, though, she has to go to the store for coffee. On her way home she is captured! When her husband gets home and finds her missing, he makes a desperate phone call ... to another Martian, who like him must have four arms.