Friday, August 10, 2012

Happy 50th Birthday Spider - Man



On this date 50 years ago Amazing Fantasy #15 came out and for 12 cents you could have bought one of the highest priced comic books of all time.  That's right today marks the  first appearance of The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.  Written by Stan Lee and art by Steve Ditko with a cover by Jack Kirby are the men responsible for the story and origin that we all know and love.  That comic book is responsible has launched over a 1000 comic books since 1962 and 4 movies.  The Amazing Spider-Man comic book will be reaching #700 this year and will be celebrating it's birthday next year.  Happy 50th Birthday Web Head and here's to 50 more.

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