The Amazing Spider-Man #30 for Sale - First Appearance of Master Planner - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #30
Publication date: November 1965
Key date: 1965-11-00
On-sale date: 1965-08-10
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 Master Planner - 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 Claws of the Cat!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Peter Parker, Spider-Man
2	The Claws of the Cat!	comic story	20	script: Steve Ditko, Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Liz Allan, Betty Brant, Frederick Foswell, J. Jonah Jameson, Ned Leeds, Master Planner First, Otto Octavius, May Parker, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Flash Thompson, Anna Watson
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Wally Wood; inks: Vince Colletta, Wally Wood, John Severin; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen
4	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers; inks: Mike Esposito, Sol Brodsky, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen
5	The whole country is going T-Shirt Wild!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Marie Severin; inks: Dick Ayers, Sol Brodsky, Frank Giacoia, Steve Ditko, Marie Severin; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Sam Rosen	Peter Parker; Hulk; Thor; Daredevil; Dr. Strange; Iron Man
6	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg

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 #23	1969	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #169	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #10 ISBN 0-87135-596-5	1989	On eBay ›
The Essential Spider-Man #2	1997	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #2930 of 443#31 ›

Sources

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

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