The Amazing Spider-Manis anAmerican comic bookseries published byMarvel Comics, featuring the fictionalsuperheroSpider-Manas its main protagonist. Being in themainstream continuityof the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously, with a brief interruption in 1995, until its relaunch with a new numbering order in 1999. In 2003 the series reverted to the numbering order of the first volume. The title has occasionally been published biweekly, and was published three times a month from 2008 to 2010.