Spider-Man's first onscreen appearance

I just saw an episode of Naked City from 1962 on MeTV which may contain the first ever appearance of Spider-Man (and maybe the first ever 1960s Marvel superhero to appear on TV).  In the episode, "Hold for Gloria Christmas," Burgess Meredith rushes to a newstand...and what is hanging in clear sight?

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  • And when he turns to dash away, we see, from a different angle, Journey Into Mystery #83, the first appearance of Thor...

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  • Very interesting. That's well-spotted, Peter.

    I've been trying to find some of the other covers, using the galleries at DC Indexes. The second cover from the right in the second image is Dell's Flintstones #6, from May. The one next to the Amazing Fantasy cover in the first image might be a Harvey comic, but I can't see it in the galleries.

    I didn't know this, but it seems the month the new superhero features were launched was also the month the first Gold Key comics went on sale. I would think Marvel's publisher Martin Goodman knew that was going to happen.

  • I The one to the left of the Journey into Mystery cover is Dell's Thirteen #4, from June.

  • I also found it quite fascinating to see it as a brand new copy of AF 15, before it would get hit with "Marvel chips."  

  • Wow! That is AWESOME!

  • The rightmost cover in the lower image is another copy of Thirteen #4.

  • Was Burgess Meredith ever young? He looks old even here!

  • He even looked kind of old in Of Mice and Men in 1939.

  • The comic to the left of Amazing Fantasy #15 in the upper image is Dell's Margie #2.

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