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List of The Amazing Spider-Man issues

The Amazing Spider-Man is Marvel Comics' flagship Spider-Man series, first published in March 1963 as a monthly comic following the character's debut in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962, and it is one of the most collected runs in comics.¹^•²^•³ Because the title has been relaunched with new #1 issues several times, a list of its issues is really a list of several numbered volumes plus a single running count, called legacy numbering, that treats every volume as one continuous series.⁴^•⁵

Key fact	Detail
Volume 1	March 1963 – November 1998; the Grand Comics Database records 443 issues published, numbered #1–#441; all 441 numbered issues count as legacy issues #1–#441¹
Volume 2	January 1999 – February 2014; 267 issues published, numbered #1–#700.5, running as #1–#58 and then #500–#700⁶^•⁷
Later volumes	Vol. 3 (2014–2015) 26 issues; vol. 4 (2015–2018) 51 issues; vol. 5 (2018–2022) 106 issues; vol. 6 (2022–2025) 72 issues; vol. 7 (2025– ) 36 issues⁴
Legacy numbering	Marvel combines the volumes into one running count so that milestone issues such as #800, #850 and #900 carry a single number⁵
First use of LGY on covers	Legacy numbers were printed on covers from #30 (legacy #471), the start of the J. Michael Straczynski run, until #500⁵
Annuals	The first series had 39 annuals numbered 1 to 39 plus one Super Special (1995); annuals also carry legacy numbers, with a volume 5-era Annual #1 printed as #43⁸^•⁵
Milestone	The combined count reached issue #1000⁹

The original series, 1963–1998

The first volume ran from March 1963 to November 1998. The Grand Comics Database records 443 issues published in that run, numbered #1 through #441, and states that the 441 numbered issues are considered issues #1–#441 in The Amazing Spider-Man legacy numbering.¹ Early issues were priced at 0.12 USD and published bimonthly under the Comics Code Authority before the series settled into a monthly schedule.¹⁰

Creative eras. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko defined the character's early look and stories; John Romita Sr. took over the art with #39, and his era, running through #95, is described as the period when the book became Marvel's best seller.²

Notable early issues. Several issues of this volume are landmarks in the character's history:

#31–38, the Master Planner Saga by Lee and Ditko, sends Peter Parker to Empire State University and introduces Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn; the underwater set piece later informed a scene in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming.¹¹
#50, "Spider-Man No More" (1967), features the famous cover of Peter walking away from his discarded costume and contains the first appearance of the Kingpin.¹¹
#90 closes the Death of Captain Stacy arc.¹¹
#100 (1971) gave Peter Parker four extra arms, the character's first such transformation in the comics.¹²
#400, "The Gift" from the 1990s Clone Saga, features the death of Aunt May.¹¹

The 1999 relaunch and return to legacy numbering

In January 1999 Marvel relaunched the title at a fresh #1, written first by Howard Mackie and then by J. Michael Straczynski.¹³ After 58 issues of the new volume, Marvel restored the original count to celebrate the 500th issue in December 2003; the series then ran as #500 through #700, ending in February 2014 when the numbering passed to Superior Spider-Man.⁶^•⁷ The Grand Comics Database records this 1999 series as 267 issues, numbered #1 through #700.5.⁶

Superior Spider-Man, in which Doctor Octopus takes over Peter Parker's body, replaced the main title from 2013 to 2014. Sources differ on its length: the Marvel Database lists 34 issues,⁴ while one comics-history article gives 33.⁷

Legacy numbering

Legacy numbering (printed on covers as "LGY#") is Marvel's answer to repeated relaunches: the counts of all volumes are added together so that a single number tracks the title's real output. Readers can use it to find milestone issues, and Marvel markets issues such as #800, #850 and #900 as major events under that combined count.⁵ The system was introduced across Marvel's lines from January 2018.¹⁴

The practice predates the formal system: legacy numbers were printed on the covers of volume 2's issues from #30 (legacy #471), the start of the Straczynski run, until #500.⁵

The volumes since 2014

After the volume 2 era ended, the title cycled through short volumes, each restarting at #1 while adding to the legacy count:

Volume 3 (2014–2015): 26 issues.⁴
Volume 4 (2015–2018): 51 issues, December 2015 to September 2018.⁴^•¹⁵
Volume 5 (2018–2022): 106 issues, September 2018 to May 2022.⁴^•¹⁵
Volume 6 (2022–2025): 72 issues, June 2022 to May 2025.⁴^•¹⁵
Volume 7 (2025– ): launched June 2025; the Marvel Database counts 36 issues to date and the Grand Comics Database lists 37 (36 indexed).⁴^•¹⁵

The current series is written by Joe Kelly with art by Patrick Gleason; issue #31 was published June 17, 2026 at $4.99, and Marvel bills it as one of the most pivotal issues in Spider-Man history.¹⁶

Annuals

The annuals form their own sequence alongside the main issues. The first volume's annuals ran from 1964 into 2001, interrupted by the 1999 relaunch; one accounting finds 39 annuals numbered 1 to 39, with annuals 35 through 39 issued after volume 2's run, plus one additional Super Special in 1995.⁸ The Marvel Database, however, lists the 1964–2001 Amazing Spider-Man Annual as 33 issues.⁴ Annuals participate in legacy numbering too: volume 4's annual carries legacy number #42, and the annual published alongside volume 5 is printed as #43 on the cover.⁵

By the numbers

The title's output can be summarized from the databases above: 443 issues in the first volume over 35 years, 267 in the 1999 volume over 15 years, and roughly 300 more across five volumes between 2014 and the present, plus annuals and the Superior Spider-Man substitute series. The combined legacy count passed 1000 with issue #1000,⁹ and one analysis projects the title's issue number will surpass neighboring long-running series in 2035.⁹ The Grand Comics Database alone matches "amazing spider-man" to 342 series across all countries and languages, reflecting the title's extensive foreign editions and spinoffs beyond the main US volumes.¹⁷

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Initially written Sep 17, 2026 · Reviewed: Sep 30, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Sep 30, 2026; Oct 25, 2026