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Comic Book: Amazing Spider-Man (1963 series)

What This Book is About:
After his debut in Amazing Fantasy #15, Spider-Man gets his own book, and the rest as they say, is history.

Data Sheet:
Dates
Mar 1963 to Nov 1998
1963
N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Spider-Man
Spider-Man

(Peter Parker)
J. Jonah Jameson
J. Jonah Jameson

(JJ Jameson)
May Parker
May Parker

(Aunt May)
Plus: Betty Brant, Frederick Foswell (Big Man), Liz Allan (Liz Osborn), Anna Watson.

Comics Index

Page: 4 of 4

Total Indexed Comics: 87

Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.

Amazing Spider-Man #529
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #529

April 2006
"Mr Parker goes to Washington, part 1 of 3"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Peter Parker and Mary Jane are asleep in their bedroom in Avengers Tower when a bird statue wakes them up. It's Tony Stark calling Peter to a meeting. MJ suspiciously asks Tony if he can see via the bird as well as communicate. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #530
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #530

May 2006
"Mr Parker goes to Washington, part 2 of 3"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Peter Parker is waiting at an airport to board Tony Stark's private jet. Tony arrives in a limo and Peter asks why he left Avengers Tower at midnight last night. Stark says he had a meeting and won't elucidate further. (We see a flashback that tells us it was an Illuminati meeting. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #531
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #531

June 2006
"Mr Parker goes to Washington, part 3 of 3"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Spider-Man is in Washington hanging on to a rocketing Titanium Man by a webline. He attaches another webline to the Washington Monument and swings the bad guy down to the Lincoln Memorial. Spidey glides over there with his new webwings. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #532
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #532

July 2006
"The war at home, part 1 of 6"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
In the opening page Peter Parker tells Mary Jane and Aunt May that he's got to make a decision which might mean the end of Spider-Man. Then we go into flashbacks. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #533
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #533

August 2006
"The night the war came home, part 2 of 6"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Tony Stark and Spider-Man (in his standard costume) are holding a press conference where Spidey has just unmasked to show his support for the Superhuman Registration Act. Now he tells the world his name.An immediate reaction is for millions of people to Google the name, and crash the Internet. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #534
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #534

September 2006
"The war at home, part 3 of 6"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
The issue begins with some of the pro-Registration team (Spider-Man, Ms Marvel, Wonder Man, Doc Samson and Invisible Woman) vs some of the Resistance (Captain America, Vision, Daredevil (actually Danny Rand), Cable, Goliath (Bill Foster), Hercules, Falcon, Luke Cage, Speed and Patriot). [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #535
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #535

November 2006
"The war at home, part 4 of 6"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Peter Parker can't sleep because of the things Tony Stark has him doing for the Superhuman Registration Act. Now he hears on late night news that Stark Enterprises (and Fantastic Four Incorporated) are making loads of money from building a secure facility to house arrested non-Registered. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #536
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #536

December 2006
"The war at home, part 5 of 6"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Spider-Man drops from the sky near Avengers Tower, closely followed by Iron Man. They continue their fight but suddenly Tony Stark uses a passcode to disable the Iron Spider armour he made for Peter Parker. However Peter's only playing dead because he disabled that passcode. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #537
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #537

February 2007
"The war at home, part 6 of 7"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Peter Parker, Mary Jane and Aunt May are in the motel they booked into last issue. Pete goes out to buy a Daily Bugle and a prostitute recognises him and turns him in, presumably to Kingpin rather than the cops. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #538
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #538

March 2007
"The war at home, part 7 of 7"
Script: J. Michael Straczynski
Kingpin's hitman is staking out the motel where the Parker family are hiding. Mary Jane and Aunt May are there but he's told to wait longer for Peter to show as well. But at some point they'll decide to take out the secondary targets anyway.Peter calls to say he won't be home for dinner. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #641
4 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #641

October 2010
"Something blue"
Script: Joe Quesada
Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson continue talking about what broke them apart. They've reached the time at Dr Strange's place where Peter made 1 of his wrong decisions. But MJ isn't so sure it was wrong anymore. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #683
3 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #683

April 2012
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Amazing Spider-Man #687
3 stars

Amazing Spider-Man #687

June 2012
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