The Amazing Spider-Man #8 for Sale - First Appearance of The Living Brain - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #8
Publication date: January 1964
Key date: 1964-01-00
On-sale date: 1963-10-08
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 The Living Brain - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character. An independent public reference records the same first appearance.

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	Spider-Man Tackles the Human Torch	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Human Torch, The Living Brain First, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Johnny Storm, Flash Thompson
1	The Terrible Threat of the Living Brain!	comic story	17	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Liz Allan, J. Jonah Jameson, The Living Brain First, May Parker, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Flash Thompson, Adrian Toomes, The Vulture
2	Spider-Man Tackles the Torch!	comic story	6	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: S. Rosen	Doris Evans, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Spider-Man, Johnny Storm, Susan Storm Richards, The Thing
3	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; 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 #5	1966	On eBay ›
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #6	1969	On eBay ›
Marvel Treasury Edition #1	1974	On eBay ›
Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #2	1975	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #145	1982	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #1 ISBN 0-87135-305-9	1987	On eBay ›
Spider-Man Classics #9	1993	On eBay ›
The Essential Spider-Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-0286-8	1996	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #194	1986	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q10568194 (The Living Brain), first-appearance property (CC0)

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