I don't have anything better do right now and neither do you, so let's read the first appearances of various key players in the Marvel universe, starting with Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15!
MARVEL ORIGINS STORYTIME
Gavin Ward
Liam Torres
This is of course the final issue of Amazing Fantasy, once they realized they had a huge hit on their hands they scrapped AF and instead switched to all spidey all the time.
Henry Smith
Lucas Brooks
some great ditko hands on display here
Nathan Wright
>once they realized they had a huge hit on their hands they scrapped AF
The problem with modern capeshit in a nutshell. Why publish more varied stories when you could just milk the shit out of a handful of characters?
Sebastian Rogers
Jeremiah Evans
Colton Martinez
Kayden Morgan
Jace Ward
Jacob Rivera
Ian Gonzalez
Joshua Moore
That's that! Peter would next appear in Amazing Spider-Man #1 a few months later, and the rest is history.
Lucas Nelson
Have you read Stan Lee's Sci-fi stories their not very good
Isaac Robinson
Next up we've got Captain America Comics #1 from Timely Comics! Originally conceived by Joe Simon as "Super American", this came out a year before Pearl Harbor and was an enormous hit, selling over a million copies. We've also got art from one Jack Kirby, who I'm sure needs no further introduction.
Matthew Morales
Nathaniel Ramirez
Alexander Turner
good old FDR
Brayden Murphy
William Lewis
Dominic Thomas
Jack Bell
Tyler Fisher
Ryan Adams
bump
Justin Rivera
And there's the first cap story! He would go on to have many an adventure until his untimely death, then rebirth in Avengers #4!
Brandon Miller
Next up we've got Marvel's first family, the Fantastic Four! This was a gamechanger for the genre and the medium, and helped cement Lee and Kirby in comics canon.
Noah Richardson
Oliver Morales
Aaron Butler
Ian Hernandez
Jaxon Gray
Christopher Davis
The original Human Torch appeared in the very first issue of Marvel Comics, and would return to battle Johnny in FF Annual #4.
Chase Lee
Lucas Baker
>The problem with modern capeshit in a nutshell
Ah yes, the modern times of 1962 AD
William Carter
Landon Johnson
Joshua Flores
Thomas Sanders
Gabriel Bailey
Joseph Cooper
Elijah Jones
What does this have anything to do with what he said?
Joshua King
60s Marvel is foundational capeshit
Luke Gonzalez
Next, we've got Hank Pym as Ant-Man in Tales to Astonish #35! Hank had shown up previously in the comic, but this was his first outing as Ant-Man.
Chase Thomas
God I love the Ant-Man suit so much, the best original Marvel costume imo.
Adrian Perry
Lincoln Jackson
Benjamin Wood
Landon Morris
Jose Myers
Oliver Allen
Brody Anderson