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The Amazing Spider-Man is the title of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics. All of them are associated with the Spider-Man franchise and are set in the shared Marvel Universe.

The original, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man series was the first ongoing comic to star Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and remained the character's only solo comic for many years. Even after other monthly Spider-Man comics were launched, it has usually been treated as the main title - so tends to be at the heart of any Bat Family Crossover stories or major status quo changes.

If you see a link to this page that only applies to one of these works, please direct it to the series it belongs to.



The following tropes apply to multiple volumes of The Amazing Spider-Man:

  • The Adjectival Superhero: The Amazing Spider-Man was one of the first Marvel Comics series to use an adjective to describe its star in the comic's title as well as in the narrative.
  • Long-Runners: The Spider-Man franchise as a whole has lasted over 60 years, and The Amazing Spider-Man, with its various relaunches, has been there since a couple of months after the beginning. Marvel eventually started adding less-prominent 'legacy" numbering to covers, with the issue number that would have applied if the series wasn't cancelled and relaunched. The 1963 and 1999 volumes of the comic are long runners in their own right.
  • Recycled Title: As of 2023, The Amazing Spider-Man has been used as the title for six different comic series. Other adjectives have been used for other Spider-Man series, but "Amazing" was the original comic, and Marvel regularly reused the name. Collected editions often use arc titles rather than volume numbers to help disambiguate them (whereas the 2015 series solves it by adopting a series-long subtitle for its collections, renaming all of them to Spider-Man: Worldwide).

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