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The Amazing Spider-Man #52

Marvel · Series began 1963 · September 1967

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Dates

Cover date: September 1967
On sale: June 8, 1967
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #52 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

To Die A Hero! · 20 pages
Kingpin tries to drown Spider-Man and Jameson in the basement, but Spider-Man breaks free and confronts Kingpin. Foswell turns on Kingpin and helps Jameson to escape, but at the price of his own life. Meanwhile, Flash Thompson has returned, on leave from the military.

Characters

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

Reprinted in

The Essential Spider-Man (1996), The Daredevils (1982), 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), Spider-Man: Spider-Verse - Amazing Spider-Man GN-TPB (2022)