Amazing Fantasy 15 Archive

I know it’s sacrilegious for a long-time Spider-Man nut like myself to say this, but I haven’t always been the biggest fan of Steve Ditko’s artwork.  Yes, he’s the man who is personally responsible for giving visual life to my favorite superhero and his incredible cast of characters. But

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As I got to the end of my “Top 10” issues of Amazing Spider-Man countdown last week, I entertained a number of questions and hypotheticals from people on Twitter that I thought were worth addressing in a separate post today (and who am I to turn down an opportunity

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The first and greatest lesson ever learned by Peter Parker/Spider-Man was “with great power comes great responsibility.” It’s a mantra dozens of Amazing Spider-Man writers have repeated and recited like the “Pledge of Allegiance.” The idea behind this mantra goes back to the origins of Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy

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Part of the reason I started Chasing Amazing was because I felt the site filled a niche on the blogosphere that was otherwise unfilled – a site dedicated to the passion of collecting comic books that also delves a little bit into the mindset of what possess someone to

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Those familiar with both Spider-Man lore and history, and my personal quest and collection have occasionally asked me about my ultimate intentions to buy Amazing Fantasy #15 – aka the very first appearance of the Spider-Man character and the Holy Grail of Spidey comics. News that a private collector

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