Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko Fantastic Four Annual #1 Historic Marvel Moment 1st Meeting of Spider-Man & The Human Torch (Illustrated For Amazing Fantasy #17, Pre-Amazing Spider-Man #1 Theory) and Rare One-Off Web Concept Original Art (Marvel, 1963)
One of the most significant pieces in our collection and what we've learned in recent years due to various articles and historians research, this small 6 page story hails as one of the earliest Spider-Man original art pieces in existence, experts theorized to be illustrated for Amazing Fantasy #17 before the title was canceled, (pre-Amazing Spider-Man #1)!
Marvel's founding fathers Kirby, Ditko & Lee collaborate on this significant first meeting of the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch and Spider-Man, truly historic original art! Not only do the 2 teenagers meet for the first time on this very page, but they square off and battle in both Spider-Man and Torch fashion, fireballs and climbing on walls! Also note panels 3 and 4 where Kirby uses a one off never seen before or later concept for Spider-Man's defense of a slithering web, almost symbiote like. Twice-Up (Large Art 12” x 18.5” signed by Jack Kirby on the lower right.
Check out our article "The Beginnings of Spider-Man" documenting this early Spider-Man art believed to have been drawn shortly after Amazing Fantasy #15 and before Amazing Spider-Man #1 in 1962, making it the earliest Spider-Man original art story next to Amazing Fantasy #15 interior art in the Library of Congress!
New revelation in 2024 added research and what I'll call "the smoking gun", adding to the "new" concepts found in this story first! (See our art collection through the link below)...