The Amazing Spider-Man #13 for Sale - First Appearance of Quentin Beck - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #13
Publication date: June 1964
Key date: 1964-06-00
On-sale date: 1964-03-10
Indicia publisher: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Quentin Beck - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Mysterio - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Mysterio!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Quentin Beck First, Mysterio First, Peter Parker, Spider-Man
1	The Menace of... Mysterio!	comic story	22	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Liz Allan, Quentin Beck First, Betty Brant, J. Jonah Jameson, Mysterio First, May Parker, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Flash Thompson
2	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky, Paul Reinman; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek
3	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Ditko, Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Tales #8	1967	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #151	1983	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #5 ISBN 0-87135-480-2	1988	On eBay ›
Spider-Man Classics #14	1994	On eBay ›
The Essential Spider-Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-0286-8	1996	On eBay ›
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #13	1986	On eBay ›
The Amazing Spider-Man #2 (81444) ISBN 0-671-81444-3	1978	On eBay ›
Spider-Man Collector's Album #72-112	1966	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #1213 of 443#14 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q60485245 (Quentin Beck), first-appearance property (CC0)

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