The Amazing Spider-Man #700
Amazing Spider-Man #700 is the capstone of a title that ran continuously, across two volumes, from 1963 to 2013 — closing the book on fifty years of Peter Parker as Spider-Man in the main Marvel continuity. By ending with Peter Parker's death in Doctor Octopus's decaying body and Otto Octavius rechristening himself the Superior Spider-Man, writer Dan Slott delivered one of the most structurally audacious status-quo changes in the character's history, prompting a genuine cultural flash point: mainstream news coverage, fan outrage, social-media death threats against the writer, and an immediate sellout that required five printings. The issue carries the first appearance of the Superior Spider-Man identity, making it both the death certificate for one era and the birth record of the next, and it directly launched the Superior Spider-Man ongoing series that ran for 33 issues and has since been recognized as a defining modern Spider-Man story.
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Dan Slott had been sole writer on Amazing Spider-Man since issue #648 (2011), building a multi-year 'Big Time' era that seeded Doctor Octopus's terminal illness as far back as issue #600 and then escalated it through the 'Ends of the Earth' arc before arriving at the three-part 'Dying Wish' conclusion in #698–700. The ending of #700 was leaked online on December 14, 2012 — twelve days before its December 26, 2012 on-sale date and four days before retailers were even supposed to receive copies — prompting Marvel EIC Axel Alonso to launch an internal investigation into the source of the leak; Slott, who had publicly said he was planning to 'go into hiding' after the issue shipped, found the leak serious enough that he reported resulting threats to authorities. Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee, whose 90th birthday fell near the publication date, admitted he was initially taken aback by the concept but ultimately kept an open mind toward where the story was headed.
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- First appearance of the Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius operating in Peter Parker's body), as credited on Marvel's own official solicitation for the issue.
- Final issue of The Amazing Spider-Man (1999 Vol. 2) and the de facto conclusion of the legacy-numbered series that began in 1963 — the title reached issue #700 by reverting to original numbering at #500 in 2003 after a Vol. 2 renumber.
- Main story 'Dying Wish: Suicide Run' written by Dan Slott with pencils by Humberto Ramos and inks by Victor Olazaba; backup stories by J.M. DeMatteis / Giuseppe Camuncoli / Sal Buscema ('Spider-Dreams') and Jen Van Meter / Stephanie Buscema ('Date Night: A Black Cat Storybook Adventure!').
- Oversized at 104 pages; includes a full cover gallery of all 700 Amazing Spider-Man covers, previews of incoming Marvel NOW! Spider-titles, and a final 'Amazing Spider-Mail' letters column answered by Stan Lee.
- The issue went through five printings, reflecting extraordinary reorder demand in the weeks after its December 26, 2012 release.
- Won the 2012 Diamond Gem Award for Top Dollar Comic of the Year.
- A variant cover by an unknown artist homages Amazing Spider-Man #300 (first full Venom appearance) with Doctor Octopus substituted for Spider-Man — a deliberate visual signal about the mantle change; a Steve Ditko variant repurposed original unused cover art created for Amazing Fantasy #15.
- The storyline's events were collected in the Spider-Man: Dying Wish trade paperback (collecting #698–700) and later in the Superior Spider-Man Omnibus, which treats #698–700 as the opening chapters of that saga; Avenging Spider-Man #15.1 was published concurrently as a bridge epilogue/prologue to Superior Spider-Man #1.
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Reprinted in Spider-Man: Dying Wish #[nn] (2013), Spider-Man #12 (2013), Spiderman #81 (2013), Spider-Man: Dying Wish #[nn] (2013), Superior Spider-Man #1 (2013), Astonishing Spider-Man #100 (2013), Marvel 75th Anniversary Omnibus #[nn] (2014), The Superior Spider-Man #1 (2015), The Superior Spider-Man #2 (2015), The Superior Spider-Man #3 (2016), Superior Spider-Man: The Complete Collection #1 (2018), Spider-Man: Far From Home - Le Prologue du film #[nn] (2019), Superior Spider-Man Omnibus #1 (2023)
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