Spider-Man first swung onto the comic book pages in August 1962 with the publication of Amazing Fantasy no. 15, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and with cover art by Jack Kirby. Sixty years after the comic?s publication, award-winning graphic designer Chip Kidd reimagines the iconic first story also told in The Amazing Spider-Man no. 1 from March 1963 using original vintage copies of both comic books to present these classic tales in a whole new way.

Stan Lee (1922–2018) was a writer, editor, comic book creator, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. Steve Ditko (1927–2018) was one of the most influential American comic book artists of all time, and the cocreator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. Jack Kirby (1917–94) created or cocreated some of comic books’ most popular characters, including the Fantastic Four. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer and editor at large for Pantheon. A three-time Eisner Award winner, he has written and designed more than a dozen books on comics. Tom Brevoort is an executive editor and vice president of publishing at Marvel Comics. Peter Sanderson is a comic book critic, historian, former researcher for DC and Marvel, and former lecturer at New York University who has curated an exhibition on Stan Lee for MoCCA. Sara Duke is a curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts in the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress. Geoff Spear is an award-winning photographer.