The Amazing Spider-Man #17 [Regular Edition]
(October 1964)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1964-07-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

The Return of the Green Goblin! (Table of Contents)

Spider-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Genre
superhero
Characters
Green Goblin [Norman Osborn]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; J. Jonah Jameson; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
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Cover Thumbnail for The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #17 [Regular Edition] Cover Thumbnail for The Amazing Spider-Man (1963 series) #17 [British]
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The Return of the Green Goblin! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Steve Ditko (credited)
Inks
Steve Ditko (credited)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)
Job Number
X-777
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Look at ol' bookworm Parker!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Liz Allan; Betty Brant; Dorrie Evans (Johnny Storm's girlfriend); Green Goblin [Norman Osborn]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; J. Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Flash Thompson; Mr. Brant (see notes)
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Synopsis
Spider-Man attends a fan club meeting organized by Flash Thompson, but the Green Goblin crashes the meeting. Fortunately the Human Torch is in attendance to help Spider-Man. During the battle Spider-Man finds out that Aunt May is in the hospital and he leaves, causing everyone to believe that he is a coward.
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Indexer Notes

The "Mr. Brant" in this issue is Liz Allan's father and owner of a nightclub, not Betty Brant's father. I assume that it was meant to be Mr. Allan. [Mike Nielsen]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Spider's Web / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Steve Ditko (illustrations)
Inks
Steve Ditko (illustrations)
Colors
Stan Goldberg ?
Letters
typeset
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Indexer Notes

Letters from Doug Moench and Bill DuBay. Includes Special Announcements Section.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Return of the Green Goblin!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. The Return of the Green Goblin!
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Spider's Web
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