Amazing Fantasy 15

In this issue:

No Jack Kirby stories in this issue.

How deeply do I have to get into it? This comic passed on an energy that fueled Marvel for the next forty years. It is one of the most important comics of all time. Though the word had yet to be accepted as a description of a psychiatric disorder in the early sixties, the story is of a boy with ASPERGER'S SYNDROME, the same disorder that so many of us comic fans have.

VERY insightful observation. I've been appreciating your contributions to Monster Blog lately and I wanted to thank you for sending such wonderful comments.

The social outcast as society's hero was essential to the success of Marvel's greatest early super-hero comics. My girlfriend was critical of the X-Men movie because it was supposed to be about a group of mutants — outcasts of society — that were being played by a group of very attractive actors who got to wear the most bad-ass leather suits and possessed mental and physical powers that helped them handle any crisis. She thought it was superficial that they were “mutants” only in the genetic sense. Lee, Kirby and Ditko offered us a richer story.

He might even be the first hero to debut in the last issue of a soon to be cancelled title! Spidey was, and remains, one of the truly original heroes of the 60's. Also the first book to defy the Comics Code Authority!!!!! Spidey Rules!!!

Ok, maybe not the first teenage superhero, but one of them.Was the FF's Torch the first in the Marvel Universe? I'm not sure.

The Human Torch was definitely first in the modern Marvel universe, although he was preceded by Capt. America's partner, Bucky, and Toro, the original Human Torch's sidekick in the Timely universe.

A little known comic published by Harvey in the late fifties - Black Cat Mystic #60 - featured a story by Kirby titled: “The Ant Extract”.

Here a timid scientist develops a formula that gives him the proportional strength of an ant. However, the twist is that after acquiring his new powers, he is branded a menace and shunned by society … sound familiar?

I wish that Ditko's cover was published as an
alternate version. However in those days they didn't use two covers to sell a book unless it was a reprint of past stories. I have to wonder why Ditko's cover was never used as a pin up or for any other Spidey cover.

Ditko's Spiderman will always be the version I favor because it represented a more innocent era of comics. As much as I like Romita I often wonder what the book would have been if Ditko were allowed to continue. How come there were never any Steve Ditko clone artists? That would have been something to see! Kirby had many imatators. Too bad the Ditko clones never came to pass!

hi a couple of yrs ago i went on a school trip to the Marvel HQ in NYC and they gave the kids comics and i was the only kid to be given a special double comic with Amazing Fantasy 15 on one side and Journey Into Mystery 83 on the other side. any idea what its worth?

the only comment I have is that I always wondered why Marvel went with the Kirby-drawn cover for this issue when Ditko had drawn a similar cover for it, which you can see in the “marvel tales” 1980s reprint of the issue. Kirby also did an AWFULL cover for spider-man 10, & Ditko's issue #10 cover was shown when “marvel tales” re-printed it in the 80s also- I wish I could find it on the web, but I cant. Can anybody help me out?dbarr24@aol.com

i would like to know the comic run on amazing fantasy 15 and spiderman 1 ,this is never mentioned. i am a big fan of all marvel comics .

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