The Amazing Spider-Man #41 for Sale - First Appearance of Aleksei Sytsevich - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #41
Publication date: October 1966
Key date: 1966-10-00
On-sale date: 1966-07-07
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 Aleksei Sytsevich - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Rhino - 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	The Horns of the Rhino!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: John Romita; inks: Mike Esposito, John Romita; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Peter Parker, Rhino First, Spider-Man, Aleksei Sytsevich First
2	The Horns of the Rhino!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee; pencils: John Romita, Bill Ward; inks: John Romita, M. Demeo; letters: Art Simek	Betty Brant, J. Jonah Jameson, John Jameson, Ned Leeds, Harry Osborn, May Parker, Peter Parker, Rhino First, Spider-Man, Gwen Stacy, Aleksei Sytsevich First, Flash Thompson, Anna Watson
3	Newsworthy Notes and Nutty Nonsense from Your Friendly Neighborhood Bullpen!	in-house column	1	letters: typeset
4	-	letters page	2	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Thing; Spider-Man

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 10d [0-0-10 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Tales #30	1971	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #22 ISBN 0-87135-914-6	1992	On eBay ›
The Essential Spider-Man #2	1997	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #180	1985	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #5 ISBN 0-7851-1190-5	2004	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #4041 of 443#42 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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