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Glory Grant
Glory Grant

Glory Grant

166 appearances · Bronze Age · 1976–2026 · 3 key issues
Who is Glory Grant?

Glory Grant is an ordinary New Yorker who first crossed paths with Peter Parker as his neighbor before landing a job as secretary to Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson, eventually rising to an editorial role at the Front Line newspaper.

Glory Grant made her debut in the Bronze Age pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #158 (1976), brought to life by the legendary team of Len Wein and Ross Andru, and she's been a warm, enduring presence in Marvel's New York ever since. Over nearly five decades she's woven herself into the fabric of Spider-Man's world, sharing pages with Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, Robbie Robertson, Mary Jane Watson, and Betty Brant — as distinguished a roster of Amazing Spider-Man regulars as you could hope to find. With 93 catalog appearances spanning all the way to 2026, including turns in Peter Parker: Spider-Man and even Spider-Gwen: Smash, Glory has proven herself one of those quietly indispensable supporting characters who give a superhero's universe its human texture. Three of her appearances carry key-issue status, a lovely reminder that longevity and collector significance often go hand in hand.

Identity

Real name. Gloria "Glory" Grant

Powers. None (ordinary human, no superpowers)

Teams & affiliations
Daily Bugle
★ First appearance
The Amazing Spider-Man #140
Jan 1975

Top series

Covers through the years — 1976–2023

The Amazing Spider-Man #158 1976
The Amazing Spider-Man #158
Marvel Team-Up Annual #4 1981
Marvel Team-Up Annual #4
Marvel Team-Up #150 1985
Marvel Team-Up #150
Web of Spider-Man #65 1990
Web of Spider-Man #65
Crossover Classics: The Marvel / DC Collection #[1] 1992
Crossover Classics: The Marvel / DC Collection #[1]
The Amazing Spider-Man #9 1999
The Amazing Spider-Man #9
The Amazing Spider-Man #25 2001
The Amazing Spider-Man #25
Spider-Man: Birth of Venom #[nn] 2007
Spider-Man: Birth of Venom #[nn]
Spider-Man: Red-Headed Stranger #[nn] 2009
Spider-Man: Red-Headed Stranger #[nn]
Spider-Man: The Next Chapter #3 2012
Spider-Man: The Next Chapter #3
Spider-Gwen #13 2016
Spider-Gwen #13
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #13 2021
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #13
Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection #9 2023
Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection #9

Appearances (1–150 of 166, oldest first)

Nova (1978)
Marvel Team-Up (1972)
Spécial Strange (1975)
Marvel Treasury Edition (1974)
#28
Marvel Team-Up Annual (1976)
#4
Marvel Superhelden (1981)
#10
Marvel Fanfare (1982)
#1
Longshot (1985)
#3
Marvel Tales (1966)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976)
Web of Spider-Man (1985)
The Punisher War Journal (1988)
#15
Crossover Classics: The Marvel / DC Collection (1992)
Spider-Man: Clone Genesis (1995)
Spider-Man Megazine (1994)
#5
Superman and Spider-Man (1995)
Spider-Man (1997)
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999)
The Amazing Spider-Man: 2001 (2001)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man 2004 (2004)
She-Hulk (2004)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man 2005 (2005)
Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (2007)
Spider-Man Visionaries: Roger Stern (2007)
#1
Civil War Chronicles (2007)
Spider-Man / Red Sonja (2008)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2008)
Spider-Man: Red-Headed Stranger (2009)
Spider-Man: Died in Your Arms Tonight (2009)
Spider-Man: New Ways to Die (2009)
Spider-Man: The Gauntlet (2010)
X-Men: Inferno Crossovers (2010)
Venom (2011)
#1
Spider-Man: Matters of Life and Death (2011)
Spider-Man: The Original Clone Saga (2011)
Spider-Man: The Next Chapter (2011)
Venom: Flashpoint (2011)
#1
Spider-Man Universe (2012)
#1
Spider-Man: Identity Crisis (2012)
Spider-Man: Spider-Island (2012)
Spider-Man: Flying Blind (2012)
Spider-Man: Dying Wish (2013)
Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back (2013)
Superior Spider-Man (2013)
She-Hulk by Dan Slott: The Complete Collection (2014)
#2
Edge of Spider-Verse (2014)
Spider-Gwen (2015)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day - The Complete Collection (2016)
#1
Amazing Spider-Man (2018)
Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider (2018)
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (2003)
#13
Marvel Legendary Collection (2022)
#59
Amazing Spider-Man: Beyond (2021)
Edge of Spider-Verse No. 2 Facsimile Edition (2022)
Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse (2022)
Marvel's Voices: Spider-Verse (2023)
#1
The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (2006)
#5
Spider-verse - Spider-Gwen (2023)
Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection (2013)
#9
Morbius : L'intégrale (2022)
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2023)
Marvel Super Stories (2023)
#1
Marvel-Verse: Spider-Man & Madame Web (2024)