The Amazing Spider-Man #3 (967) for Sale - First Appearance of Ricardo Bernal - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 2025 series)
Issue: #3 (967)
Publication date: July 2025
Key date: 2025-07-00
On-sale date: 2025-05-07
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $4.99
Pages: 36
Barcode: 75960621001500311
Rating: Rated T

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Ricardo Bernal - 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	-	cover	1	pencils: Pepe Larraz; inks: Pepe Larraz; colors: Marte Gracia	Peter Parker, Spider-Man
1	-	comic story	20	script: Joe Kelly; pencils: Pepe Larraz; inks: Pepe Larraz; colors: Marte Gracia; letters: VC's Joe Caramagna	Hobgoblin, Itsy Bitsy, Roderick Kingsley, Shay Marken, Susan Mary, Brian Nehring, Norman Osborn, May Parker, Peter Parker, Ben Parker, Rhino, Spider-Man, Aleksei Sytsevich, Ricardo Bernal First
2	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
3	-	letters page	2	script: Nick Lowe, Kaitlyn Lindtvedt; pencils: Pepe Larraz; inks: Pepe Larraz; colors: Pepe Larraz
4	-	in-house column	2	script: Nick Lowe
5	Next:	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Pepe Larraz; inks: Pepe Larraz; colors: Marte Gracia

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Variant Edition - Ed McGuinness Cover	barcode 75960621001500341
Variant Edition - Rose Besch Cover	barcode 75960621001500321
Variant Edition - Rose Besch Virgin Cover	barcode 75960621001500316
Variant Edition - Alex Maleev Cover	barcode 75960621001500331
Variant Edition - Ario Anindito Cover	barcode 75960621001500317
Variant Edition - 616 Comics & Mike Mayhew Studio Exclusive Virgin Cover	barcode 75960621001500322
Variant Edition - 616 Comics & Mike Mayhew Studio Exclusive Cover	barcode 75960621001500320
Variant Edition - 217 Exclusives Exclusive - Joseph Michael Linsner Virgin Cover	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Variant Edition - 217 Exclusives Exclusive - Joseph Michael Linsner Cover	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Second Printing - Pepe Larraz Cover	barcode 75960621001500312
Second Printing - Rose Besch B&W Cover	barcode 75960621001500325

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Get Back Up ISBN 978-1-302-96072-8	2025	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Pressable defects (spine stress, corner blunting) matter to graders; ask for photos at an angle.

Series context

‹ #2 (966)3 of 35#4 (968) ›

Sources

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

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