Daredevil #47 for Sale - First Appearance of Spider-Man - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series)
Issue: #47
Publication date: December 1968
Key date: 1968-12-00
On-sale date: 1968-10-10
Indicia publisher: Perfect Film & Chemical Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Captain Marvel - 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	Brother, Take My Hand!	cover	1	pencils: Gene Colan; inks: George Klein	Daredevil, Matt Murdock
1	Brother, Take My Hand!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: George Klein; letters: Artie Simek	Daredevil, Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, Karen Page
2	It's Brand New!! Marvel's Swingin' Inflatable Plastic Pillows!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Bruce Banner, Captain Marvel First, Ben Grimm, Hulk, Thor Odinson, Spider-Man First, The Thing, Thor
3	A Titanic Treasure-Trove of Traumatically Tempting Tid-Bits, Tastefully Tossed Together to Tease and Tantalize Thee!	in-house column	1	script: Smiley; pencils: Gene Colan	Daredevil (cameo)
4	-	letters page	2	pencils: John Romita, Gene Colan; inks: John Romita, George Klein; letters: Herb Cooper	Daredevil, Matt Murdock
5	Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: John Romita, Herb Trimpe; inks: John Romita, Dan Adkins; letters: Artie Simek	Namor, Sub-Mariner, Peter Parker, Spider-Man

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Son of Origins of Marvel Comics #[nn] ISBN 0671221663	1975	On eBay ›
Essential Daredevil #2 ISBN 0-7851-1462-9	2004	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil #5 ISBN 978-0-7851-3042-0	2009	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #4647 of 381#48 ›

Sources

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

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