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The Amazing Spider-Man #17

Marvel · Series began 1963 · October 1964

Dates

Cover date
October 1964
On sale
July 9, 1964
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #17 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirbyinks: Steve Ditko, Sol Brodskycolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, Sam Rosen

Stories

  • The Return of the Green Goblin! · 22 pages

    Spider-Man attends a fan club meeting organized by Flash Thompson, but the Green Goblin crashes the meeting. Fortunately the Human Torch is in attendance to help Spider-Man. During the battle Spider-Man finds out that Aunt May is in the hospital and he leaves, causing everyone to believe that he is a coward.

Characters

Peter ParkerSpider-ManJohnny StormHuman TorchJ. Jonah JamesonNorman OsbornMay ParkerFlash ThompsonGreen GoblinBetty BrantLiz AllanDoris Evans

Reprinted in

Marvel Tales (1966), The Essential Spider-Man (1996), Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2003), The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), Mystic (1960), Spider-Man Comics Weekly (1973), The Amazing Spider-Man (1977), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Spider-Man Megazine (1994), Spider-Man vs. Green Goblin (1995), Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2002), Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2009), Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection (2013), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2021), The Marvel Comics Library: Spider-Man (2022), The Amazing Spider-Man (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (2022)

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