This is the cover of 1962's
Amazing Fantasy #15, penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Steve Ditko, based on the latter's design for the new character Spider-Man. As perhaps the first image anyone outside of the Marvel bullpen had seen of the Spider-Man, it is one of the most famous poses of the character, and one frequently homaged and riffed upon.
Even overseas, as I've noticed recently.
In Yusuke Osawa's 2023
Spider-Man: Fake Red, Silk sneaks into protagonist Yu Onomae's apartment and looks around, her eye landing on a framed photo of Spider-Man in his
Amazing Fantasy cover pose hanging on Yu's wall. The picture appears a few more times in the scene, with Silk placing her hand dramatically upon it at one point, and the pair of heroes shaking hands in front of it.
In Setta Kobayashi and Hachi Mizuno's 2025
Spider-Man Kizuna, Spider-Man strikes the iconic pose when he rescue's the books protagonist Yu Yamato.
And in Shogo Aoki's 2025
Spider-Man: Shadow Warrior, protagonist Hyo Hachizuka, who is possessed and empowered by a piece of the Venom symbiote, rescues a pair of civilians like so.
In fact, the only Spider-Man manga I've read in the last few years that
didn't contain an homage to that pose was
Spider-Man: Octo-Girl. That series is still ongoing, though, so maybe its creators will fit one in during the next volume...
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