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Celebrate Marvel's 70th anniversary by experiencing the tales of the world's most-famous super heroes from the very beginning! The Marvel Masterworks have brought readers deluxe hardcover collections of Marvel's classics from the Golden Age, Atlas Era, and the mighty Marvel Age, and now you can join in the Masterworks excitement with Marvel's new, monthly Marvel Masterworks trade paperbacks. And where better to start than where comics' most robust line of archival comic collections began - the Amazing Spider-Man! In 1962 in the pages of a comic book slated for cancellation, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko gave birth to one of the most-enduring icons in American popular culture - the one and only Amazing Spider-Man! Turning the concept of a super hero on its head, they imbued the young, guilt-ridden Peter Parker with the fantastic powers of an arachnid and the fantastic pressures of an everyday teenager. The combination was pure magic. So join us in the following pages as we present stories of spectacular web-slinging adventure from Spidey's very beginning, including the tragic origin that started it all, the first appearances of the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson, Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Vulture, Electro, and guest-star nods by the Fantastic Four and Human Torch. And to top it off, we've packed this volume full of bonuses galore, including the complete original artwork to Spider-Man's Amazing Fantasy #15 origin from the Library of Congress archives! Collects Amazing Fantasy #15 and The Amazing Spider-Man #1-10.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Enjoyable early tales of Peter Parker, Liz Allen, Flash, Betty, Jonah J Jameson, Aunt May, Uncle Ben and others (some of whom vanished quietly into comic history / obscurity). The Dr Doom story is always an odd one, not exactly the kind of villain you would expect to battle Spidey (or even Flash). Other villains include Electro, Dr Ock, Sandman, Vulture, Chameleon, Tinkerer, Lizard and others.
The TPB includes a reasonable selection of bonus material including unused covers as well as the original art (but sadly not the pencils) by Steve Ditko (from Amazing Fantasy), inked by Al Hartley (possibly). If only the original Jack Kirby version ... but sadly, no such luck.
Great starter edition to the new TPB editions of the Marvel Masterworks series, reducing the price (and any shelving issues) of the series to a more affordable price.
The TPB includes a reasonable selection of bonus material including unused covers as well as the original art (but sadly not the pencils) by Steve Ditko (from Amazing Fantasy), inked by Al Hartley (possibly). If only the original Jack Kirby version ... but sadly, no such luck.
Great starter edition to the new TPB editions of the Marvel Masterworks series, reducing the price (and any shelving issues) of the series to a more affordable price.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This volume reprints Amazing Fantasy #15 from August 1962 and The Amazing Spider-Man issues 1-10 from March 1963 to March 1964 (issues 1-5 were bi-monthly). The stories are scripted by Stan Lee and drawn by Steve Ditko, with Jack Kirby pencilling the back-up story in #8.
The script and art combine flawlessly to whisk you along at a great pace through the stories; there are no extraneous caption boxes, as used by so many later writers as the art tells you everything you need to know, nor are there endless speech balloons to slow the flow [Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont, I'm looking at you], but that is how it was in Stan's day.
The contents are -
#1 - featuring the Chameleon
#2 - featuring the Vulture and the Tinkerer
#3 - featuring Dr Octopus
#4 - featuring the Sandman
#5 - featuring Dr Doom
#6 - featuring the Lizard
#7 - featuring the Vulture again
#8 - featuring the Human Torch
#9 - featuring Electro
#10 - featuring the Enforcers
How's that for a line up of some of Marvel's most famous villains - and you saw them here first. Well, 8 out of ten of them anyway, Dr Doom was already spoken for. This is where the Marvel Empire began (even if the Fantastic Four got top-billing as `The World's Greatest Comic Book' - Spider-Man was always the more `human' comic to me).
The script and art combine flawlessly to whisk you along at a great pace through the stories; there are no extraneous caption boxes, as used by so many later writers as the art tells you everything you need to know, nor are there endless speech balloons to slow the flow [Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont, I'm looking at you], but that is how it was in Stan's day.
The contents are -
#1 - featuring the Chameleon
#2 - featuring the Vulture and the Tinkerer
#3 - featuring Dr Octopus
#4 - featuring the Sandman
#5 - featuring Dr Doom
#6 - featuring the Lizard
#7 - featuring the Vulture again
#8 - featuring the Human Torch
#9 - featuring Electro
#10 - featuring the Enforcers
How's that for a line up of some of Marvel's most famous villains - and you saw them here first. Well, 8 out of ten of them anyway, Dr Doom was already spoken for. This is where the Marvel Empire began (even if the Fantastic Four got top-billing as `The World's Greatest Comic Book' - Spider-Man was always the more `human' comic to me).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Well, I bought a Lego Spider-man set for my son and thought that it might be meaningless to him without seeing some of the story. I looked at the movies (he's too young) and didn't know how to choose between the various animated series. So I thought if only I could go back to basics and get the original comics. Well of course, here they are about 10 full colour magazines collected together at a reasonable price - if you look at comics in the shops today they're about £3 each, so these are good value.
So you get the curious origins story and some great villains (some of whom I notice are still around today) but what makes it so good is that SM / Peter Parker is an ordinary (well, talented) student who has PROBLEMS. His double-life gives him a real head-ache.
My son (7) has got into Spider-man and asked for more and is interested in the other Marvel characters. Of course, here in the Norfolk Bayou I was raised with the Yanks from the bases and my best pal was American. This takes me back to those enchanted afternoons when we would lie on the floor looking through piles of comics from Sad Sack, Richie Rich and Casper to Thor, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk. Just make a peanut butter sandwich and pour the root beer and enjoy!
So you get the curious origins story and some great villains (some of whom I notice are still around today) but what makes it so good is that SM / Peter Parker is an ordinary (well, talented) student who has PROBLEMS. His double-life gives him a real head-ache.
My son (7) has got into Spider-man and asked for more and is interested in the other Marvel characters. Of course, here in the Norfolk Bayou I was raised with the Yanks from the bases and my best pal was American. This takes me back to those enchanted afternoons when we would lie on the floor looking through piles of comics from Sad Sack, Richie Rich and Casper to Thor, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk. Just make a peanut butter sandwich and pour the root beer and enjoy!
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not as much fun as the original comicsT
THE ONLY THING I RECOMMEND ABOUT THIS BOOK is the black and white original artwork at the back.The paper is glossy and not like the comics and it is difficult to read. Read more
Published 1 day ago by henry radzki
Where it all began...
I'm a big fan of Spider-Man and as a fan, I don't think there's a better place to start with the series than this. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Wade2193
Sumthing And Such!
This volume of masterworks: The amazing spiderman was great. I couldn't find the original spideerman comics anywhere, except seperately. Read more
Published 4 months ago by JackReveiwTime!
Beautifully reproduced
Classic Spider Man. Character never as good as he was in these early issues. Colours beautifully reproduced. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Golowy
A great introduction to comics
I was surprised to find out that, unlike some other heroes, Spider-Man comics were good from the very first one. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Aurora Sinclair
A must for Spidey fans!
If you want to know how it all began for Spider-man this is a must. You're getting around a dozen comics here, rather than 20 or so that the Essential reprints offer, but these are... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Tintin
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