First Drawing of Spider-Man Now at Library of Congress



The Library of Congress had just acquired the original 1962 drawings from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s "Amazing Fantasy #15" - complete with Ditko’s pencil erasures and white-out opaquing fluid - in which Spider-Man made its first appearance in print!

Matt Raymond of the Library of Congress Blog wrote:

People who are more familiar with Amazing Fantasy #15 than I are probably not surprised by this fact, but I got a good chuckle from the disclaimer that appeared at the top of the first page (pictured at left). It almost seems to be begging skeptical readers to give Spider-Man a chance, completely unaware of the phenomenon that was about to be unleashed on the world.

The excessively exclamatory paragraph reads: “Like costume heroes? Confidentially, we in the comic mag business refer to them as ‘long underwear characters’! And, as you know, they’re a dime a dozen! But, we think you may find our SPIDER-MAN just a bit … different!”

The good folks at the LOC promises to digitize the collection forthwith! Link - Thanks Matt!


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3 comments to "First Drawing of Spider-Man Now at Library of Congress"

  • bean
    April 30th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    I think this is very cool. For as much flack as Stan Lee gets, he and Kirby really did have a knack for coming up with original, enduring characters. I wish the Spiderman movies had bothered to include the webshooters in the story, instead of what they ended up using.

  • andrewdoane
    April 30th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    That’s awesome. America sure has a better comics collection than I do.

  • fsmarch
    April 30th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    Really cool!

    Talk about comics collections, I would be rich today if my mother hadn’t thrown out all my comics and baseball cards.

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First Drawing of Spider-Man Now at Library of Congress



The Library of Congress had just acquired the original 1962 drawings from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s "Amazing Fantasy #15" - complete with Ditko’s pencil erasures and white-out opaquing fluid - in which Spider-Man made its first appearance in print!

Matt Raymond of the Library of Congress Blog wrote:

People who are more familiar with Amazing Fantasy #15 than I are probably not surprised by this fact, but I got a good chuckle from the disclaimer that appeared at the top of the first page (pictured at left). It almost seems to be begging skeptical readers to give Spider-Man a chance, completely unaware of the phenomenon that was about to be unleashed on the world.

The excessively exclamatory paragraph reads: “Like costume heroes? Confidentially, we in the comic mag business refer to them as ‘long underwear characters’! And, as you know, they’re a dime a dozen! But, we think you may find our SPIDER-MAN just a bit … different!”

The good folks at the LOC promises to digitize the collection forthwith! Link - Thanks Matt!


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3 comments to "First Drawing of Spider-Man Now at Library of Congress"

  • bean
    April 30th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    I think this is very cool. For as much flack as Stan Lee gets, he and Kirby really did have a knack for coming up with original, enduring characters. I wish the Spiderman movies had bothered to include the webshooters in the story, instead of what they ended up using.

  • andrewdoane
    April 30th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    That’s awesome. America sure has a better comics collection than I do.

  • fsmarch
    April 30th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    Really cool!

    Talk about comics collections, I would be rich today if my mother hadn’t thrown out all my comics and baseball cards.

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