The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 for Sale - First Appearance of Xandu - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1964 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: [September] 1965
Key date: 1965-09-00
On-sale date: 1965-06-01
Indicia publisher: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.
Price: $0.25
Pages: 76
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Xandu - 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	The Wondrous Worlds of Dr. Strange!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Peter Parker, Spider-Man
1	The Wondrous World of Dr. Strange!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Doctor Strange, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Stephen Strange, Xandu First
2	Spider-Man	comic story	14	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Johnny Dee	J. Jonah Jameson, John Jameson, May Parker, Peter Parker, Spider-Man
3	The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Art Simek	Phineas Mason, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Flash Thompson, Tinkerer
4	The Circus of Crime	character profile	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Clown, Zelda DuBois, Elliot Franklin, Great Gambonnos, Human Cannonball, Princess Python, Jack Pulver, Ringmaster, Maynard Tiboldt
5	The Scorpion	character profile	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Mac Gargan, Scorpion
6	The Beetle	character profile	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Beetle, Abner Jenkins
7	Jonah's Robot	character profile	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Spider-Slayer
8	The Crime-Master	character profile	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Crime-Master, Nick Lewis
9	Marked for Destruction by Dr. Doom!	comic story	21	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Sam Rosen	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom]; Liz Allan; Flash Thompson (as Spider-Man); J. Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Fantastic Four (cameo) [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl; The Thing; The Human Torch]; Betty Ross (cameo)

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 1/6 [0-1-6 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Tales of Suspense #71	1965	On eBay ›
Doctor Strange #179	1969	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #165	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #168	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #169	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #16 ISBN 0-87135-730-5	1991	On eBay ›
Spider-Man's Greatest Team-Ups #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0203-5	1996	On eBay ›
The Essential Spider-Man #2	1997	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #167	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Tales #196	1987	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q3570549 (Xandu), first-appearance property (CC0)

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