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''Amazing Adult Fantasy'' and its retitled final issue, ''Amazing Fantasy'', is an American comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics from 1961 through 1962, with the latter title revived with superhero features in 1995 and in the 2000s. The final 1960s issue, ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (cover-dated Aug. 1962), is the title that introduced the popular superhero character Spider-Man. ''Amazing Adult Fantasy'' premiered with issue #7, taking over the numbering from ''Amazing Adventures''. ==Publication history== The science fiction-fantasy anthology ''Amazing Adult Fantasy'' began with issue #7 (cover-dated Dec. 1961), having taken over the number of the similar anthology ''Amazing Adventures''. The earlier issues before the title change featured stories drawn by a number of artists including Jack Kirby, Don Heck and Steve Ditko. ''Amazing Adult Fantasy'' featured exclusively the quick, quirky, twist-ending tales of artist Ditko and writer-editor Stan Lee that had appeared in ''Amazing Adventures'' and sister titles primarily featuring rampaging monsters. The cover of the comic carried the motto "The magazine that respects your intelligence."〔(''Amazing Adult Fantasy'' ) at the Grand Comics Database. Accessed September 2, 2008〕 Lee in 2009 described these "short, five-page filler strips that Steve and I did together", originally "placed in any of our comics that had a few extra pages to fill", as "odd fantasy tales that I'd dream up with O. Henry-type () endings." Giving an early example of what would later be known as the "Marvel Method" of writer-artist collaboration, Lee said, "All I had to do was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he'd be off and running. He'd take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect."〔Lee, Stan, "Introduction", in Yoe Craig, ''The Art of Ditko'' (Idea & Design Works, January 2010), ISBN 1-60010-542-4, ISBN 978-1-60010-542-5, p. 9〕 With issue #15 (Aug. 1962) ''Amazing Adult Fantasy'' was retitled ''Amazing Fantasy''.〔(''Amazing Fantasy'' (Marvel, 1962 series) ) at the Grand Comics Database. "()he decision to cancel the series had not been made when it went to print, since it is announced that future issues will include a Spider-Man feature."〕 This issue's lead feature introduced the superhero Spider-Man, written by Lee and drawn by Ditko, although Lee rejected Ditko's cover art and commissioned Jack Kirby to pencil a cover that Ditko inked.〔 As Lee explained in 2010, "I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jack's covers." In numerous interviews Lee has recalled how the title had been slated for cancellation, and so with nothing to lose, publisher Martin Goodman reluctantly agreed to allow him to introduce Spider-Man, a new kind of superhero – one who would be a teenager, but not a sidekick, and one who would have everyman doubts, neuroses and money problems. However, while this was indeed the final issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing and that "The Spiderman () ... will appear every month in ''Amazing''."〔〔"Important Announcement from the Editor!", ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (Aug. 1962), reprinted at 〕 Regardless, sales for ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 proved to be one of Marvel's highest at the time,〔Daniels, p. 97〕 so the company launched the series ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' seven months later.〔(''The Amazing Spider-Man'' ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 The DVD release of the collector's edition of the ''Spider-Man'' movie included an electronic copy of ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15. In 2001, Marvel published the 10-issue historical overview ''The 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time'', with ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 topping the list. In 2008, an anonymous donor bequeathed the Library of Congress the original 24 pages of Ditko art for ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15, including Spider-Man's debut and the stories "The Bell-Ringer", "Man in the Mummy Case", and "There Are Martians Among Us". In September 2000, Metropolis Comics in New York City brought the only known CGC-graded 9.6 (near-mint plus) copy to market and sold it for $140,000. In October 2007, a near-mint copy sold for $210,000 in an online auction on ComicLink.com. A near-mint CGC-graded 9.6 copy sold for $1.1 million to an unnamed collector on March 7, 2011, making the issue one of only three comic books to have broken the million-dollar mark (the others being the debut of Superman in ''Action Comics'' #1, of which three copies have sold for more than $1 million each; and the first appearance of Batman in ''Detective Comics'' #27). In June 2015, a record price of $200,000 was paid for an example of Amazing Fantasy #15 in CGC 9.0 condition on ComicLink.com. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amazing Fantasy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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