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The Amazing Spider-Man #51

Marvel · Series began 1963 · August 1967

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Dates

Cover date: August 1967
On sale: May 9, 1967
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #51 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition12¢ cover
Source ↗
UK pence edition10d [0-0-10 GBP] cover

British

Printed cover price 10d [0-0-10 GBP].
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Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: John Romitainks: John Romita, Mike Espositocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Sam Rosen

Stories

In the Clutches of...the Kingpin! · 20 pages
Spider-Man is back and starts interfering with Kingpin's criminal activities. Kingpin recruits shady reporter Foswell and kidnaps J. Jonah Jameson. Spider-Man intervenes, but is exposed to gas which renders him helpless at the Kingpin's feet.

Characters

Peter ParkerSpider-ManMary Jane WatsonJ. Jonah JamesonGwen StacyWilson FiskKingpinRobbie RobertsonBetty BrantHarry OsbornNed LeedsFrederick Foswell

Reprinted in

The Essential Spider-Man (1996), Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Tales (1966), Spider-Man Comics Weekly (1973), Spider-Man Comics Magazine (1987), The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2009), Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection (2013), Civil War II: Kingpin (2016), Spider-Man: Spider-Verse - Amazing Spider-Man GN-TPB (2022)